South Danvers Wizard, 2/3/1864, p. 2/3
INTEMPERANCE [Letter to the Editor] - “We are sorry to say it, yet such is the fact, that since the Temperance Division has dissolved, Intemperance has fearfully increased although some contended that Division was no benefit, and even as injury is to the same. But, if we contrast the appearances of the present time with the past, when the Division was in a thriving condition, we find that, from some cause, we have some greatly demoralized, and the cause of Temperance is fast losing ground, and it is now quite a common thing to see men reeling through the streets under the influence of this debasing vice, Intemperance…”  Signed “Lubin, Danvers, Feb. 1, 1864.”

South Danvers Wizard, 2/17/1864, p. 2/3
AN OLD ROLL OF HONOR – “We have been presented with an old Temperance Pledge, containing about five hundred names of total abstainers, which is sixteen feet long and some inches.  Among them are many of our citizens, who would be surprised to see their names on such a document.  We have not room to publish it in this number.  In the mean time, we will only say that we should not be quite willing to trust a quantity of good liquor within reach of some of the signers with the expectation that it would be ‘let alone’.”

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TEMPERANCE – “We learn from a gentleman, who was present at a recent meeting of the Legislative Temperance Society, that considerable interest is now taken by the members and other friends of temperance, in the new proposition for substituting a license law for the present prohibitory statute…”

South Danvers Wizard,  3/16/1864, p. 2/4
THE OLD TEMPERANCE PLEDGE – Breaks out the types of occupations represented by those signing the pledge.

South Danvers Wizard, 3/23/1864, p. 2/2
PUBLIC MORALS [Editorial] under Gambling.

South Danvers Wizard, 4/20/1864, p. 2/5
SENTENCED TO BE SHOT under Army Correspondence.

South Danvers Wizard,  4/20/1864, p. 2/2
JOHN B. GOUGH under Danvers, Massachusetts, People & Places D.

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SOUTH DANVERS BAND OF HOPE – “Many of our citizens will be glad to know that temperance association, called the South Danvers Band of Hope, was formed on Saturday afternoon, April 16th.  The object of this association to encourage the young to abstain from intoxicating liquors, tobacco and profanity…”

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TEMPERANCE CONVENTION – “The Essex South District Temperance Union held their Quarterly meeting last Thursday, continued through the day and evening.…”