ITEM: The Youth's Temperance banner Vol. XXI No. 19.

PUBLISHER: The National Temperance Society New York

SIZE: 11 by 16 inches

DATE: October 1, 1886

COMMENTS: A 4 page periodical of stories, poems and songs ."The National Temperance Society and Publishing House was organized in 1865 by James Black of Lancaster, Pa. His abhorrence of liquor developed when, as a muleskinner at the age of 16 on the Pennsylvania and Union Canal, he joined some older workers in a carousal. When he awakened the next day with a pounding head and aching body, "he prayed to God to preserve him from another such humiliation." In its first 60 years of existence, the National Temperance Society and Publishing House, located in New York City put out more than a billion pages of literature. It published three monthly periodicals: "The National Temperance Advocate" for adults, "The Youth's Temperance Banner" for adolescents, and "The Water Lily" for children -- which had a combined circulation of about 600,000."- Vigo County Historical Society.

CONDITION: Creasing from being folded in quarters. light age toning and small closed tears and creasing to the margins of the first page only.SEE PHOTOS

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