An “Un-American Invention”?: Catholics and the Issue of Prohibition
...dard and Times, was also a vocal opponent of prohibition calling it an “un-American invention” and stating that “logic…is foreign to the typical advocate of Prohibition.” [5] One major reason for Catholics’ widespread opposition to Prohibition was their belief that it was just a move by Protestants to outlaw Catholicism,
Recently Processed Collection: John Gilmary Shea Correspondence
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Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...hospital in a single month. The following month of August saw the greatest number of deaths in any one month, averaging at least one per day. In just one year, patients consumed more than 800,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounds of butter and 334,000 quarts of milk. During the war,