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Tuesday, 25 May 2021

A visitor

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  A visitor to the grave of Joseph Lytle Russell in the Allegheny Cemetery. Photo taken by James S. Holmes as found in his book Watch Towe...
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Saturday, 22 May 2021

Two British postcards

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Wednesday, 19 May 2021

From Canadian government archives

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This photograph came from the Canadian government archives, from an internet link that no longer seems to work. When it was published elsewh...
Friday, 14 May 2021

The Franz brothers and the draft

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Three members of the Franz family all had to complete draft registration cards over May-June in 1917. The first was Albert Edward Franz (1...
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Monday, 10 May 2021

The Chicago City Temple and the Photodrama

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Following on from meeting places being called Tabernacles (e.g. Brooklyn Tabernacle, London Tabernacle) it was easy to see why some large ha...
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Wednesday, 5 May 2021

Bible Students on the Mount of Olives

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On Sunday, April 24, 1910, a party of Bible Students who were on tour visited the Mount of Olives and had a group photograph taken.   Two...
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Sunday, 2 May 2021

Birla

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On another blog some time ago, I reproduced the letter below. It was in response to a debate that occurred in The Evening Journal (Wilmingto...
Friday, 30 April 2021

Jokes

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In the 1880s, the North Wales Express , an English language newspaper for North Wales, UK, had a regular column called Varieties, full of ex...
Tuesday, 20 April 2021

Photodrama Advertising Car - Detective Work Completed

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Guest post by Sam ­­­­­­­ Many readers will have seen the photograph of a Model T Ford being used to advertise the Photodrama of Creation ...
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Thursday, 1 April 2021

One hundred years ago

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With thanks to Tom who sent the images
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Tuesday, 23 March 2021

You takes your choice

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In the 1870s there were numerous small Bible classes loosely affiliated with various papers, some Age to Come, some different strands of Adv...
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Sunday, 21 February 2021

The Herald of the Morning

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The Herald of the Morning (originally entitled The Midnight Cry and Herald of the Morning) started publication at the end of 1873. Shortly...
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Monday, 15 February 2021

The Watch Tower and the Koreshan Unity

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If a search engine has brought you here please check the revised and expanded article posted on this blog in June 2022. The comment trail fr...
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Monday, 1 February 2021

Food for Thinking Christians

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Following the booklet Object and Manner of Our Lord’s Return , CTR’s first major work was the small book Food for Thinking Christians publi...
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The Tabernacle and its Teachings

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After publishing Food for Thinking Christians as a special ZWT supplement in September 1881, CTR followed it shortly thereafter with a larg...
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Tuesday, 19 January 2021

Wherefore art thou Thomas - 1

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The beauty of a wide readership of a blog is that sometimes someone can come up with a suggestion that may solve a mystery. This post (and t...