Dougherty’s Movie Boycott

...Dougherty asking him to release them from their pledge and stating that many of their friends had already abandoned it. Many complained that the movies were their only form of entertainment and that seeing an approved movie at a theater was better than going to a beer hall or other

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Portrait photograph of Robert M. O'Reilly, circa 1870

A lengthy and active military career

...g members of women's religious orders. O'Reilly writes: There hasn't been any fever- yellow fever I mean- in Tampa. There is or was a good deal of typhoid as this is pretty ?? to be in camps of green troops. My associations since the General and staff went to Huntsville

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Cornelia Connelly, S.H.C.J.

...s at the Convent of the Sacred Heart. During this time, Cornelia went on many retreats, performing the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius and creating a Rule of life to follow. However, the bliss that surrounded the couple would soon be lost. John Henry, their second son, died in a

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The Immaculata Mighty Macs

...a 24-1 record under coach Cathy Rush that year, most people thought the tiny women’s college couldn’t compete at the national level. But at the tournament in Normal, Illinois, the team won game after game and finally defeated their rival West Chester State (the school that had handed them their

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