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• 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)

• Ol' Rum River: Revelations of a Prohibition Administrator (Chicago: T. S. Rockwell Co., 1931), by Ira L. Reeves (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 Stolen Years (Cleveland: Pennington Press, c1959), by Roger Touhy, contrib. by Ray Brennan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Prohibition Movement in California, 1848-1933 (University of California Publications in History v57; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957), by Gilman M. Ostrander (page images at HathiTrust)

• Results of Prohibition in Connecticut, by Henry S. Clubb (page images at MOA)

• Rum Across the Border: The Prohibition Era in Northern New York (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1978), by Allan S. Everest (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)

• The Black Hills Union (partial serial archives)

• Proceedings of a Great Whig Meeting of Citizens of Boston, Held at Amory Hall, On the Evening of Wednesday, Oct. 10th, 1838, by Mass.) Whig Party (Boston (page images at Google)

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

• Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed: Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray (Chicago: Free Methodist Publishing House, c1926), by Mrs. L. P. Ray and L. P. Ray (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman (Toronto: Woman's Temperance Pub. Association; Rose, 1889), by Frances E. Willard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Fifty Years History of the Temperance Cause (Hartford: L. Stebbins; et al., 1874), by J. E. Stebbins and T. A. H. Brown, contrib. by Dio Lewis
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Proceedings of a Great Whig Meeting of Citizens of Boston, Held at Amory Hall, On the Evening of Wednesday, Oct. 10th, 1838, by Mass.) Whig Party (Boston (page images at Google)

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

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Flying Inn (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Flying Inn (New York: J. Lane Co., 1914), by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)
• John and the Demijohn (Boston: H. Hoyt, c1869), by Julia McNair Wright (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• 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

• 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, With Replies to Numerous Objections (New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1873), 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
• A Memoir of the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew; With an Account of the Rise and Progress of Temperance in Ireland (with Morris's "The Evil Effects of Drunkenness Physiologically Explained"; New York: A. V. Blake, 1841), by James Birmingham, ed. by P. H. Morris (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)
• The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions: or, Joints in Our Social Armour (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1892), by James Runciman (Gutenberg text)
• 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

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