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IanC | BS: 'The poor man's club' ~~ origins (9) | RE: BS: 'The poor man's club' ~~ origins | 16 Oct 13 |
This appears to have originated in 1899 with an address by a Bishop Potter, a US Episcopalian bishop, to the Church Temperance Society in New York. It apparently caused some shock at the time and was quite famous (or infamous). |