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title: "Portland, Oregon - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "Portland, Oregon: From the Vegetarian Messenger (Manchester), June 1895, p.194: UNITED STATES : PORTLAND OREGON. - In this city we have a Vegetarian Society, which meets the first Tuesday in each month, in the parlours of the World's Advance Thought ."
url: "https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=2714:history-societies-oregon&catid=48"
date: "2026-11-06T00:10:45+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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#  Portland, Oregon

![Portland, Oregon](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/history-societies-oregon.png)**Portland, Oregon**

From the Vegetarian Messenger (Manchester), June 1895, p.194:

UNITED STATES : PORTLAND OREGON. - In this city we have a Vegetarian Society, which meets the first Tuesday in each month, in the parlours of the *World's Advance Thought*. It is in a flourishing condition. Wm. H. Galvani presides; he is an earnest and active worker. He lets no opportunity pass to impress upon people the necessity of giving up the use of flesh food. There are many who come to these meetings to oppose vegetarianism who become converts after talking the matter over. Many people imagine, because of the name vegetarianism that it means to subsist on a diet of vegetables only, but this is an error. - *World's Advance Thought*.

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Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.

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