Watch Tower History

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            Perhaps the most significant, mostly positive review came from J. B. Rotherham. Russell and Rotherham shared key points of ...

Last month (December) Rachael posted that there had been a flurry of interest in an old post on Herman Heinfetter. You can find the origina...

Alexander Peter Stewart is the first on the left CHATTANOOGA PUBLIC LIBRARY 1905 "We had a warm welcome in St. Louis, too, ...

Dear Mister Schulz, Sorry for contacting you this way. My name is Dr. ----. I am a historian from Germany. Via Internet I have found your...

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My comments on the General Hall comment trail:               Several issues exist in this discussion, providing me with an excuse to...

Little Bighorn A real river ...

by Jerome The book God’s Kingdom Rules discusses on page 56 the stand that Bible Students took towards warfare during WW1. While t...

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We need every WT use of the phrases "changed condition" and "change of condition" from 1920 to 1950. If you have the se...

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Our request for reviews resulted in a few. Some from long time readers of this blog. And I think Sergio and Bruce posted on an older forum y...

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by Jerome Rachael has several times bemoaned the fact that few have written reviews of Separate Identity, volume one. As an attempt to ...

Posting a review on Amazon or googlebooks or lulu.com helps us. Few have done it. You don't like our books? We finance our research out ...

When Maria married CTR at her mother’s residence on March 13, 1879 (service conducted by John H Paton) her younger brother, Lemuel, was...

With English language help from Rachael In 1911 (or soon after), the Italian Watch Tower branch published a four-page tract enti...

We need more Amazon reviews, preferably good ones. Twenty would be nice. If you liked our book, review it on Amazon, please.

I've found the text of a 'forgotten' debate from 1920. We need someone to transcribe it. This represents a lot of work. Anyone?...

Many of the questions asked on this blog or sent to us through email can be answered by consulting one of the digitized libraries of Watch T...

 

Several in the comment trail and back-channel have enquired about the rooms inside the Bible House and asked if photographs exist. Wit...

Probably from the Pittsburgh Press in 1963 and probably written by George Swetnam, this is the story about the end of the Bible House build...

In response to the question on the previous post on Bible House, I have been sent a map of modern Allegheny/Pittsburgh, where the red dot s...

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The building frontage at 610 Arch Street was 13 meters wide, and the depth of the building was 18 meters. In the 1920s the frontage was...

Italy, January 1916 This booklet was made up of 28 pages. There is the same picture of Jesus of the Greek handbill

and translate the title?

With grateful thanks to Mike Castro, below are the three convention programs that mention the special meal tickets, one of which features i...

needs help identifying this. Anyone?

but we would like more comments.

This is an update of part of a chapter entitled Seeking Cohesion, parts of which were posted before. This is a temporary post; most of it wi...

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