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Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...serve food and refreshments. The military men described the women as the “best dancers in the world” and that they would “make you feel you’re the tops,” showing that Benedict Club was successful in raising the morale of the servicemen who visited.[12] Some members of the Morale Corps Aides In
Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find
...rter, publisher, lobbyist, superintendent of schools in the reconstruction south, social activist and entertainment mogul. Redpath had sold his Lyceum booking agency several years earlier and was recuperating from an accident. He proposed to The New York Tribune that they send him to Ireland where he could regain his health
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...soldiers. A 14-foot high fence surrounded the property, which now sprawled south to Baltimore Avenue and west to 46th Street. On the grounds there was a post office, clothing store, laundry facility, carpenter shop, printing shop, dispensary, library, and three kitchens referred to as restaurants. Although the official capacity of