Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items

...anic 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 in the collection is correspondence, ephemera, some estate items, and a scrapbook relating to Patrick Coad’s family,

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Newman Centers

...e NANCC sought to better train and provide aid to the hundreds of full and part time chaplains working at the centers.[14] Newman Centers are an integral part of the Catholic Church’s role in the continuing presence and education of students who attend non-Catholic colleges. Through such centers, Catholics can

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Elizabeth Sarah Kite and the Seminaries of France

...Your note explaining the occasion of the communication for which you ask space in the E.R. cannot, of course, leave me indifferent. I hope to publish it, with a few introductory words in the spirit of your letter. It may not be possible to get the matter into the March

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Misericordia Hospital

...ompletion of the hospital that they was so influential in building, having passed away in July of 1916 and February of 1918 respectively.[8] Misericordia had a quiet two days after opening before the first patient, a Ms. Bridget Murry, was admitted into the hospital. [9] Since that day the staff

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