Not just another hot August in Cleveland

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Not just another hot August in Cleveland
In the month of August in 1891, Cleveland newspapers swelled with stories about the battle for St. Ladislas Roman Catholic Church waged by its Magyar and Slovak (referred to as "Slav") parishioners. As this headline from the August 3, 1891 edition of the Cleveland Leader indicates, the battle was touched off on August 2, 1891 by a riot at the church that imperiled the life of its pastor, Father John Martvon, an immigrant Slovak priest who was charged with serving both Magyar and Slovak parishioners.

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"Not just another hot August in Cleveland" appears in: The Battle at Saint Ladislas