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Thursday, 27 July 2023

Judge Rutherford's grave

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While this is way outside the time frame for this blog, a couple of interesting pictures have come to hand, and this is probably the best pl...
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Saturday, 15 July 2023

The Brooklyn Eagle gets it wrong again

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From The Brooklyn Daily Eagle for Sunday, June 23, 1918. A prominent enemy of the Bible Student movement, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle ne...
Saturday, 1 July 2023

The Scrap Iron business

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There is an interesting swipe at CTR in Nelson Barbour’s Herald magazine for May 1880, page 72. It was one of many, and one must remember t...
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Monday, 19 June 2023

A Bible House photograph

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  Most readers will be familiar with the photograph of the Bible House family, taken outside the building, and generally dated to around 190...
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Wednesday, 7 June 2023

From 'Unorganized' to 'Too Organized'?

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... You can please ‘some of the people, some of the time, but …’ Guest post by Gary Scholars who study Jehovah’s Witnesses have often note...
Thursday, 25 May 2023

Names to Faces

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Whenever I obtain an old publication of the Watch Tower Society I always check through its pages, in case a previous owner has tucked in a M...
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Wednesday, 17 May 2023

More on Henry Weber

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Henry Weber was the vice president of Zion’s Watch Tower Society from 1892-1904 (his death). During this time several long-time associates l...
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Thursday, 11 May 2023

The People's Pulpit Association

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  When the headquarters moved to Brooklyn in 1909 it was deemed advisable to create a new corporation to deal with publishing and property m...
Wednesday, 26 April 2023

All together now...

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  Those with long memories may remember that one of the Russell family’s business ventures was in music publishing. The full story of The Ev...
Thursday, 20 April 2023

Chicago 1893

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  A key photograph in the history of the Watch Tower Society is that for the 1893 Chicago convention, the first real national convention the...