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Moral defence of the pastor of the First Progressive Christian Church / by Damon Y. Kilgore, Esq. ; including eighteen reasons for a new trial with an argument in their support ; also, the charge, opinion and sentence of the court in the case of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Rev. Simon M. Landis, M.D., for publishing a book, entitled Secrets of generation ; phonographically reported by C.R. Morgan.

Title
Moral defence of the pastor of the First Progressive Christian Church / by Damon Y. Kilgore, Esq. ; including eighteen reasons for a new trial with an argument in their support ; also, the charge, opinion and sentence of the court in the case of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Rev. Simon M. Landis, M.D., for publishing a book, entitled Secrets of generation ; phonographically reported by C.R. Morgan.
Author
Kilgore, Damon Y. (Damon Young), 1827-1888.
Publication
[Philadelphia] : The Church, [1871?]

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Additional Authors
  • Landis, Simon M. (Simon Mohler),
  • Pennsylvania. Court of Oyer and Terminer (Philadelphia County)
  • Pennsylvania. Court of Quarter Sessions (Philadelphia County)
Description
75 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Obscenity (Law) > Philadelphia
  • Secrets of generation
  • Trials (Obscenity) > Philadelphia
Note
  • Cover title.
  • "In the Court of Oyer and Terminer and Quarter Sessions of the Peace for city and county of Philadelphia, January sessions, 1870."--p. 54.
  • Landis was charged with obscenity for having published a sex education book, Secrets of generation, that was "lewd, filthy, and corrupt."
Indexed In (note)
  • McCoy, R.E. Freedom,
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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