The Centennial Fountain
...AU). The resolution passed with the stated goal of the fountain being a “testimony to the patriotic feeling of the Catholic Total Abstainers all over the United States.”[1] CHRC Catholic Standard, March 25, 1876, SB1, page 224 With the approval and backing of the national society, the Philadelphia chapter began
Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items
...s some of Coad’s correspondence, his lecture notes and medical remedies, testimonials noting the capabilities of his galvanic battery, as well as related ephemera. Ephemeral materials include newspaper clippings, pamphlets and broadsides publicizing his invention, lectures, as well as the school that Coad opened for boys and girls. Also included
Newman Centers
.... A house was purchased and named St. Bede Chapel. In 1917, it cared for almo*]}*st 1,000 Catholic Students by offering two daily Masses, weekly Benediction, and religious retreats as well lectures on religion, ethics, and civics.[4] By 1926, there were 1,600 Catholics attending University of Pennsylvania, which was greater
Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...attacked and burnt to the ground an Ursuline convent and school (attended mostly by the daughters of wealthy Protestants) in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Fortunately, no one was killed. Philadelphia became one of the centers of anti-Catholic protest, second only to Hartford Connecticut in the amount of anti-Catholic materials published. The trustee