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medicinal reasons. Instead of visiting taverns, Islanders began to make their own “moonshine” and sell it to others. Every community including Elmsdale had a house at which alcoholic beverages would be available, most of this liquor having been brought to the province by rum running ships, dropped overboard and picked up in

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Elmsdale had two organizations that promoted prohibition although the word “tem- perance” is in each group’s official name. Men joined] the Golden Star Division #214 of the Sons of Temperance; women joined the Elmsdale branCh of the Wom- en’s Christian Temperance Union. Both groups used pledges that members signed

solemnly swearing to not knowingly drink spirituous liquors.