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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fretboard, post: 5571877, member: 19765&quot;]Here&#039;s a couple more Tokens I got today.&nbsp; In case you don&#039;t know it, collecting Tokens and Medals can become extremely addicting! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Each time I buy one, I tell myself it&#039;ll be my last one!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> More information on the 1850&#039;s Anti-Tobacco Temperance Token below.&nbsp; The Temperance Society used to be huge in the 1800&#039;s and beyond!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;George Trask, a Massachusetts minister who founded the American Anti-Tobacco Society in 1850, visited schools around the country and urged young people to take the Band of Hope pledge: &quot;I hereby solemnly promise to abstain from the use of all Intoxicating Liquors as a beverage; I also promise to abstain from the use of Tobacco in all forms, and all Profane Language.&quot; In the 1890s Lucy Page Gaston adopted a similar strategy, leading boys and girls in the Clean Life Pledge: &quot;I hereby pledge myself with the help of God to abstain from all intoxicating liquors as a beverage and from the use of tobacco in any form.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1241482[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1241483[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1241484[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1241485[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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