An “Un-American Invention”?: Catholics and the Issue of Prohibition

...c Prohibition League (CPL) held its first meeting in 1914 in Niagara Falls New York, where they declared their goal was for the creation of a dry and saloonless nation.[9] During CPL’s convention, they challenged the Catholic Total Abstinence Union for not opposing the liquor traffic and saw themselves as

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Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection

...yland, Maine, Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and a few from Canada, mainly Montreal. Almost nothing is known about why the company chose to specialize in church lithographs or how they solicited business or performed the execution of the

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Centennial Exposition

...eeting of the delegates of the Roman Catholic Central Society, June 1876, (New York: Hickey & Co, 1976), P001.1604. Archives Archives Select Month March 2024 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

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...s, a free online resource that provides access to twenty historic Catholic newspapers and news agencies from across the country from as early as the 1830s. All material is fully searchable by date and keyword.   Access to these newly digitized issues allows individuals to learn about many important issues,

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