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• A Hole to Creep Out at From the Late Act of Parliament Against Geneva, and Other Spirituous Liquors: By a New Dram Far Better Than Gin, and a New Punch, Far Wholesomer Than Either Brandy, Rum, or Arrack Punch (London: Printed by J. Hughs, 1736) (page images at NIH)

• Vindicação de José James Forrester Contra as Imputações a elle Feitas no Parecer da Direcção da Associação Commercial do Porto de 15 de Março de 1845; e Observações Sobre o que no dito Parecer se Assevera Respeito ao Vinho do Porto : Com hum Post-Scriptum Sobre o Folheto Intitulado A Questão dos Vinhos do Douro, Considerada Politicamente (in Portuguese; Porto: Typ. Commercial, 1845), by Joseph James Forrester (page images at HathiTrust)

• Martini, Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail (revised edition originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Lowell Edmunds (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Flying Inn (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Franklin Evans, or, The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times (New York: Random House, 1929), by Walt Whitman, ed. by Emory Holloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Million Too Much: A Temperance Tale (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1871), by Julia McNair Wright (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• My Parish, and What Happened In It (Glasgow: J. S. Marr and Sons, 1872), by M. A. Paull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Purple Springs (Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1921), by Nellie L. McClung (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Rachel Noble's Experience (Glasgow: Scottish Temperance League, 1884), by Bruce Edwards (PDF at djm.cc)
• Ruth and Marie: A Fascinating Story of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago and Philadelphia: American Bible House, c1895), by Emma Pow Bauder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Second Chance (Toronto: William Briggs, 1910), by Nellie L. McClung (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Six Nights with the Washingtonians, and Other Temperance Tales (Philadelphia: T. B. Petersen and Brothers, c1871), by T. S. Arthur (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sowing Seeds in Danny (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1908), by Nellie L. McClung
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Ten Nights in a Bar Room, by T. S. Arthur (Gutenberg text)
• Sowing and Reaping (from a reprint; originally published 1876-1877), by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Gutenberg text)
• The Enemy (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester, illust. by A. B. Wenzell
  • multiple format at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Address to the House of Representatives of the Hawaiian Kingdom, by Robert Crichton Wyllie (page images at MOA)

• John Barleycorn, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Tuliliemen Tuttavana: Alkoholimuistelmia (John Barleycorn in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1914), by Jack London, trans. by Toivo Wallenius (Gutenberg text)

• The National Prohibition Law: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-Ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 33, S. 34, S. 591, S. 592, S. 3118, S.J. Res. 34, S.J. Res. 81, S.J. Res. 85, S. 3823, S. 3411, and S. 3891, Bills to Amend the National Prohibition Act. April 5 to 24, 1926 (2 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1926), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Prohibition: An Adventure in Freedom (Westerville, OH: World League Against Alcoholism, 1928), by Harry S. Warner, contrib. by Daniel L. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The National Prohibition Law: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-Ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 33, S. 34, S. 591, S. 592, S. 3118, S.J. Res. 34, S.J. Res. 81, S.J. Res. 85, S. 3823, S. 3411, and S. 3891, Bills to Amend the National Prohibition Act. April 5 to 24, 1926 (2 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1926), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• How the Bone-Dry National Amendment Would Affect Me and My Neighbors (San Francisco, CA: California Grape Protective Association, ca. 1918), by Addie M. Billings (page images at Harvard)
• Kidnaping the Constitution (Marblehead, MA: N. A. Lindsey and Co., c1934), by Lucy Peabody (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation (1905 edition), by Carry Amelia Nation
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• History of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act (Cardiff: D. Owen and Co., 1885), by E. Beavan
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Address Before the Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Twentieth Annual Convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1893), by Frances E. Willard (HTML at NIU)
• Arts of Intoxication: The Aim, and the Results, by J. T. Crane (page images at MOA)
• The Bases of the Temperance Reform: An Exposition and Appeal, by Dawson Burns (page images at MOA)
• The Curse of Drink: or, Stories of Hell's Commerce (c1910), ed. by Elton Raymond Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Grappling With the Monster: or, The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink, by T. S. Arthur (page images at MOA)
• Ruined by Rum: A Tale of Facts, Together with an Appeal for Temperance, by Emily Foote Baldwin (page images at MOA)
• Select Temperance Tracts, by American Tract Society of New York (page images at MOA)
• Temperance and Education, by Mark Hopkins (page images at MOA)
• The Temperance Battle Not Man's but God's: Written and Published for the Instruction and Encouragement of the Friends of Temperance Throughout the United States (New York: American Temperance Union, 1858), by John Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Temperance Cyclopaedia (new edition; Glasgow: Scottish Temperance League; London: Houston and Wright, and W. Tweedie, ca. 1863), ed. by William Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperance Sermons, by National Temperance Society and Publication House (page images at MOA)
• Text-Book of Temperance, by Frederic Richard Lees (page images at MOA)
• Two Lectures on Intemperance: I, The Effects of Intemperance on the Poor and Ignorant; II, The Effects of Intemperance on the Rich and Educated (Syracuse, NY: Hall, Mills, and Co.; Boston: W. J. Reynolds and co., 1852), by Horace Mann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Responsible Drinking: A Discreet Inquiry and a Modest Proposal (New York: Vanguard Press, 1930), by Robert C. Binkley (HTML with commentary at wallandbinkley.com)
• Drunkenness a Vice, Not a Disease: A Paper (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co., 1882), by John E. Todd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Liquor Problem: A Summary of Investigations Conducted by the Committee of Fifty, 1893-1903 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1905), by John S. Billings, Charles William Eliot, Henry W. Farnam, Jacob Lyman Greene, and Francis Greenwood Peabody, contrib. by Raymond Calkins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Personal Experience of a Physician, With an Appeal to the Medical and Clerical Profession; and an Appendix, a Review of "Christ and the Temperance Question" in the Christian Union, by John Ellis (Gutenberg text)
• The Present Evolution of Man (London: Chapman and Hall, 1896), by G. Archdall Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thumb Nail Sketches of White Ribbon Women (Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1895), ed. by Clara C. Chapin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Guide to Social Happiness (New York: E. Walker, ca. 1850), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Serious Considerations on Several Important Subjects: Viz. on War and Its Inconsistency With the Gospel; Observations on Slavery; and Remarks on the Nature and Bad Effects of Spirituous Liquors (Philadelphia: Printed by J. Crukshank, 1778), by Anthony Benezet
  • HTML and page images at Earlham
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• The Ideal Bartender (c1917), by Tom Bullock (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)

• The Brewer: A Familiar Treatise on the Art of Brewing (London: William R. Loftus, 1863), by William Robert Loftus (zipped page images at forgottensea.org)
• Handbuch des Weinbaues und der Kellerwirtschaft (2 volumes, in German; Berlin: P. Parey, 1881-1885), by August Wilhelm Babo and Edmund Mach
  • Volume I: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume II: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Art of Drinking: A Historical Sketch, From the German of G. G. Gervinus (New York: United States Brewers' Association, 1890), by Georg Gottfried Gervinus
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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