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Monday, March 31, 2025

London Convention: 1918

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 We owe our thanks to Brother S for the images.

IBSA Talk Invitation

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Monday, March 24, 2025

Prove it or refute it ...

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  This needs verification or refutation.  After a failed prediction general among Advent Christians that Christ would come in 1885, most p...
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Friday, March 21, 2025

Things I find while looking for something else ...

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 From the Kenosha, Wisconsin, Telegraph. 1875.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

A JFR Snapshot

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      Some may have seen this photograph before. It has been published in the past in glorious monochrome with permission from Tower Arc...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

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 Th...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Translation help? PLEASE

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This might help  
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Monday, March 3, 2025

World War I and Bible Prophecy

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       In 1914 what came to be known as The Great War and later World War 1 started. Also, according to the Bible Students, the epoch know...
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Friday, February 28, 2025

Eaton - Russell debate

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 I need all the newspaper references to the debate you can uncover. Please. This will help immensely. 
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Improve this image? [click image to see it whole]

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Freed from Prison - New York Times, June 2, 1919

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The Vertical Phonograph

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While outside of the regular time frame for this blog, the information below might be of interest to some. In the 1930s and early 1940s Je...
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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Aurora 1917

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  The Aurora Convention was held over August 8-13, 1917 at Fox River Park, Aurora, Illinois. This candid snapshot of a car with the cross an...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

1927 Toronto Convention

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My thanks to Tom S. for sharing. You may need to click on the image to see it in its entirety. 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

The Korean Mission Field, August 1913.

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Sent by Liam C. AN EXPLANATION.             Mr. Hollister of the Millenial Dawn Society states that we published “a slanderous statement ”...
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The Korean Mission Field - May 1913

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 Sent by Liam C. to whom we owe our thanks. “Millennial Dawn”              I have been requested to say a little to you concerning the her...

1940s

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 On ebay. Not mine, but I wish they were.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Korea, 1915

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  The Christian Movement in the Japanese Empire Including Korea and Formosa. A Year Book for 1916. Korea             The Government Gene...
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Friday, February 14, 2025

1919 and AI

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  With thanks to Leroy and AI (artificial intelligence), here are the 1919 convention speakers as you may not have seen them before. Click o...
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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Morning Resolve Postcard

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Currently on ebay for more money than I can spare. Enjoy:
Friday, February 7, 2025

Old Guy's Memories

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 We traveled to the 1953 Convention via auto, an old 1939 Packard that got us there and back, but died the day we returned home. We stayed i...
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A Thin Seventh Volume

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      One edition of Studies in the Scriptures that is particularly collectable is the 7 th volume The Finished Mystery in its printings f...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

1914 Convention

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 Another amazing image from Tom S.'s amazing archive. 
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Monday, February 3, 2025

J. F. Rutherford in Philadelphia [1917] ... And others

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 Our thanks to Tom S. and Raymond S. for these images. The first is a rare handbill from 1917. The following is from July 20, 1913. A newspa...
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Saturday, February 1, 2025

Russell's Round-the-World Tour

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Guest post by Liam C. Part 1 of 2      Many readers of this blog who are interested in Bible Student History and who like me spend too m...
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