Centennial Exposition

...buildings included: Machinery Hall, Horticultural Hall, Agricultural Hall, United States Building, Memorial Hall, and the Women’s Pavilion. 15 countries and 26 states also constructed their own buildings.[7] Of all the buildings, only two survived to today, Memorial Hall, which is now the Please Touch Museum, and the Ohio House.[8] The

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National Council of Catholic Women

...a predecessor to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.[1] The United States bishops created the NCCW as a way to better organize other regional and local women groups. In this way, it would serve more as an umbrella organization to help coordinate action between associations rather than a local

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Dougherty’s Movie Boycott

...nded the boycott, so it technically continued up until his death. New York State Exhibitor, vol.6 no. 22 07/25/1934 While the boycott failed to have the staying power that Dougherty hoped for, it did have a large impact on the movie industry. In June of 1934, the Motion Picture Association

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Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital

...hospital in a single month. The following month of August saw the greatest number of deaths in any one month, averaging at least one per day. In just one year, patients consumed more than 800,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounds of butter and 334,000 quarts of milk. During the war,

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