Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home

...ladelphia Chiropody Society.[13] The club would also offer meals, with the Sunday roast being the most attended. Over the years as the club became more popular, the cost of running it increased from $21,000 during the first year to over $50,000 during the height of the war. Entrainment and food

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Internships/Volunteer

...phila.org VOLUNTEERS If you are interested in volunteering at CHRC, please contact us stating your skills, hours available per week, and your time commitment (a few weeks, months, etc.). Some of the kinds of projects for volunteers may include: cataloging archival and library materials into our PastPerfect database, creating inventories

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Catholic Newspapers in Philadelphia

...on February 22, 1823 in opposition to The Catholic Herald and Advocate and supported Bishop Conwell in the Hogan Schism. It appears to have only lasted for a few issues. There are no extant copies. The first diocesan paper was The Catholic Herald. It was first published on Jan. 3,

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...icy. NEWS Digitization of the Catholic Standard & Times Thanks to generous support from the American Catholic Historical Society, fourteen more years of Catholic Standard & Times, spanning from 1916 to 1930, have just been added to the Catholic News Archives, a free online resource that provides access to twenty

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