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Dougherty’s Movie Boycott
...heaters.[1] By doing so, Dougherty declared it sinful for any of the area’s 800,000 Catholics to enter a movie theater. In his letter to the priests of the Archdiocese, Dougherty called the motion picture theater “perhaps the greatest menace to faith and morals in America today.”[2] Dougherty and many others
The Battle of Antietam: a Philadelphia soldier’s experience
...ave 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 to the battlefield it was an awful sight if it had been the first battlefield