Author: INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARS - B. F. PARKER (SECRETARY) .
Title: International Good Templar. Vol. XVI. January , 1903 , No. 1. - December , 1903, No.12.
Description: Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Independent Order Of Good Templars, 208 Oneida Street, 1903 . 0. "An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted To The Interests Of The Temperance Reform Throughout The World." 12 monthly magazines for 1903 bound together in a very good full leather binding. 8vo. 9.75" x 7.0" x 1.0" , pp.432 (ending with index). Polished maroon morocco boards with gilt lined border. Spine with gilt banding and title: "I. G. T. 1903". Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. All page edges bright gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Original brown endpapers. Clean text, illustrions and adverts throughout. VG. ** "The International Organisation of Good Templars (IOGT; founded as the Independent Order of Good Templars), whose international body is known as Movendi International, is a fraternal organization which is part of the temperance movement, promoting abstinence from alcohol and other drugs.. The IOGT named themselves after the Knights Templar, citing the legend that the original knights "drank sour milk, and also because they were fighting 'a great crusade' against 'this terrible vice' of alcohol.." - See Wikipedia.

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