Unusual Antique Sunday School Temperance Pledge: Wine, Beer, Cider, Tobacco--and Opium! reverse glass painted nameplate and sharing of woes

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Unusual Antique Sunday School Temperance Pledge: Wine, Beer, Cider, Tobacco--and Opium! reverse glass painted nameplate and sharing of woesThis just struck me as a fun little bit of history a Sunday School temperance pledge, c. 1880s I believe, which not only includes abstention from alcohol (wine, beer and cider) but also from tobacco and, most uncommonly, opium! These were a important component of the temperance movement in the 19th and early 20th century, and were often signed in public settings and organizational contexts, Sunday schools among them, to heighten accountability. I