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    1. [ENG-SOM] Sarah Jane NICHOLLS/NIXEY - Bath Chronicle & Weekly Gazette 5 Apr 1924
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    3. Bath Chronicle & Weekly Gazette, Saturday 5 April 1924: BATH AND COUNTY NOTES Sister Mrs. Nixey, of 1, Warwick Villas, a member and P.O.T. of the Bath Jubilee Lodge, I.O.G.T., has been commissioned to hold the office of Deputy Grand Chief Templar of England and United Services for this year. I.O.G.T. - International Order of Good Templars. "International Order of Good Templars (IOGT) was formed around 1852 in the United States of America, it spread to England around 1869. ... Its object was to secure personal abstinence from the use of all intoxicating drinks as a beverage and the prohibition of the manufacture, importation and sale of intoxicating drink. Membership was achieved by signing a lifelong pledge of abstinence." http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=7211&inst_id=94

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