Education

...er) standing in front of the board of education while holding a paper that reads “Reduce the salaries of the public school teachers.” Printed below the title is the line: “Enemy of the Public Schools. ‘That’s right: reduce them, and they will die out.'” Nast is commenting on an historic

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Dougherty’s Movie Boycott

...January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 May 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 November 2021 September 2021 August 2021 June 2021 May 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020

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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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Editorial Cartoons

...iocese of Cleveland’s Catholic Universe Bulletin and the National Catholic News Service. Wolf was the first cartoonist to be used weekly by The Catholic Standard and Times, with his cartoons running from 1953 to 1968. Robert F McGovern (1933-2011) Robert McGovern was an artist from Philadelphia, best known for his

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