Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...ven to midnight.[10] In the first year about 200 men visited the club each day and by 1943 that was up to 800.[11] The women volunteers, called the Morale Corps, would organize various themes for the dances as well as staff the offices and service desks and serve food and
The Story of Duffy’s Cut
...ie in a mass grave under the current Paoli-Thorndale line. In their latest book Massacre at Duffy’s Cut, the Watson brothers talk about how the incident at Duffy’s Cut was not a localized case, and that around “twenty thousand Irish immigrant laborers died in industrial projects on railroads and canals
The Battle of Antietam: a Philadelphia soldier’s experience
...ht to ten killed and wounded and prisoners...we expected another battle to day but they have skedadled... September 19, 1862, page 1 September 19, 1862, page 2 One week later, White continues to discuss the horror he had experienced: after i wrote the last letter i took a walk over
Roman Catholic and Archdiocese High Schools
...igh School, 6. [2] IC119, Roman Catholic High School for Boys 2nd Founders Day (May 26, 2000), 5. [3] IC119, Roman Catholic High School 25th Anniversary (Philadelphia: Rex Printing, 1915), 73. [4] Dedication of the Roman Catholic High School, Able Addresses,” Catholic Standard, September 13, 1890. [5] IC119, The Golden