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February 1971

The Washingtonians

A brief history of the organization that grew strong helping suffering alcoholics and then withered away when it lost track of its primary purpose

ONE THURSDAY evening, April 2, 1840, nearly 100 years before the advent of Alcoholics Anonymous, six good drinking buddies were gathered at Chase's Tavern on Liberty Street in Baltimore, Md.

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