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The American Issue Publishing Company, incorporated in 1909, was the holding company of the
American Issue Publishing Company
The American Issue Publishing Company
* ''The Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem'' *
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Temperance organizations in the United States Westerville, Ohio Publishing companies established in 1909 1909 establishments in Ohio Year of disestablishment missing
The American Issue Publishing Company, incorporated in 1909, was the holding company of the Anti-Saloon League
The Anti-Saloon League (now known as the ''American Council on Addiction and Alcohol Problems'') is an organization of the temperance movement that lobbied for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century.
Founded in 1893 in Ober ...
of America. Its printing presses operated 24 hours a day and it employed 200 people in the small town of Westerville, Ohio
Westerville is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin and Delaware County, Ohio, Delaware counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. A northeastern suburb of Columbus, Ohio, Columbus, the population was 39,190 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 ...
, where the company had its headquarters. Within the first three years of its existence the publishing house was producing about 250,000,000 (one quarter billion) book pages per month, and the quantity increased yearly. This dwarfed the output of the National Temperance Society and Publishing House
The National Temperance Society and Publishing House was a publishing house which advocated personal alcohol temperance movement, temperance and a governmental ban on the personal consumption of alcohol. It was based in New York City.
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, which took over half a century to print one billion pages.
The American Issue Publishing Company played a major role in advancing the interests of the temperance movement
The temperance movement is a social movement promoting temperance or complete abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants in the movement typically criticize alcohol intoxication or promote teetotalism, and its leaders emph ...
. Not only did it publish an enormous quantity of temperance materials, but it also produced some of the most prestigious temperance publications; including ''The Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem'', a multi-volume work edited by Ernest Cherrington
Ernest Cherrington (1877–1950) was a leading temperance journalist (see temperance movement). He became active in the Anti-Saloon League and was appointed editor of the organization's publishing house, the American Issue Publishing Company. He ed ...
and published between 1924 and 1930.
References
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* Hanson, David J. ''Preventing Alcohol Abuse: Alcohol, Culture, and Control''. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. * Odegard, Peter H. ''Pressure Politics: The Story of the Anti-Saloon League''. NY: Columbia University Press, 1928.External links
American Issue Publishing Company
The American Issue Publishing Company
* ''The Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem'' *
Volume I
*
Volume II
*
Volume III
*
Volume IV
*
Volume V
*
Volume VI
Temperance organizations in the United States Westerville, Ohio Publishing companies established in 1909 1909 establishments in Ohio Year of disestablishment missing