In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell

...mpbell-Furlong Family Papers, 1795-1963 (MC 90) Finding aid. [2] Engbers, Susanna Kelly. "A Woman Both "New" and "True": Jane Campbell as Catholic Suffragist." American Catholic Studies 126, no. 2 (2015), 31. [3] Jane Campbell Obituary, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8195. [4] Catholic Standard and Times, June, 14, 1919. [5] Catholic Standard and Times, August

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The Day the Bronx Bomber Played in Kensington

...an Ascension parish uniform   Now batting for Ascension of Our Lord, Babe Ruth Baseball today seems more like a business than a sport. Americans look to the past as a simpler time when baseball was played for fun, not profit. These thoughts may just be nostalgic longing for a

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James Buchanan materials at the Archdiocesan Archives?

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1832 Cholera Outbreak in Philadelphia and Duffy’s Cut

...ned to the ground during the riots of 1844. Lithograph of St. Augustine in ruins, 1844 Cholera had run its course in Philadelphia by early September. None of the sisters who ministered in the city and at Duffy’s cut during the outbreak perished from the disease. Their assistance, as well

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