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Title: Souvenir year book and parish guide of the Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist ... Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Catholic Church - Arkansas - Hot Springs
Publisher: Good Shepherd's Convent,
Contributing Library: Catholic Theological Union
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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RT. REV. JNO. B. MORRIS, D. D.Bishop of Little Reck. OgmtingB With a grateful heart we send this Souvenir Year Bookto our friends, benefactors and parishioners. St. Johns churchis built, thanks be to God. Hot Springs has no factories and but little public work.A great portion of its inhabitants are colored people, perform-ing the menial work of the hotels and bath houses. The, over-whelming majority of the white people belong either to one ofthe sixteen protestant churches of our city or are, members ofthe so-called big church. This leaves a rather small remain-der of Catholics who would not need a large church for theiraccommodation. The real business season extends to aboutthree months. This circumstance brings about for many ninemonths of sure fasting and three months of possible feasting.We are told that through a number of coercive regulations andpetty investigations many of the former wealthy visitors werekept away for the past few years. For these reasons the timeswere rather h

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