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item 6 — the crusade's effect on the works, separately from national Prohibition
Temperance as an institution stands whole in this build — the lodge, its officers, its 143 members, "second in size in the State" — and its action on the town's drink trade can now be stated at its true size: there was no works for it to act on. No saloon prosecution, local-option fight, or liquor conviction is attributed to this ground in the records reached across the whole dry era to 1920 and through it; no saloon or tavern course is carried for the crusade to have shortened. What the crusade did here was preventive and social, not industrial: it organised the township's establishment — women in office by name from 1875 — around the pledge, in a town whose merchants sold grain and dry goods rather than drink. The item closes mixed in form and complete in substance: the actor dug whole in its own leg, its object proven absent by this one, and the two findings printed in both places so neither leg's reader meets only half.
Sources:
- This build's Crime (nc-crime-dry, whole: the lodge's organisation, officers, and membership; no saloon prosecution or local-option fight attributed to this ground).
- this section's first article (no plant, saloon, or tavern course in the gazetteer and directory record).