Watch Tower History

          The history of the Watch Tower Society using public witnessing to spread the message goes right back to the booths at World Fairs ...

Guest post by Bernhard In the early history of the Bible Students Association (I.B.S.A.) we often encounter the term “Newspaper Syndicate”...

  The New York, New York Tribune, January 31, 1868.

 A guest post by Liam C., an exceptional researcher and friend to this blog. I've reorganized the paragraphing from the original article...

 I need scans of these, as many as can be found:

This letter was noticed in the Bible Students' unofficial newspaper, the St Paul Enterprise, for August 16, 1916.

  There is much of interest in Lizzie Avirett [editor]: P. G. S. Watson: A Memory Review of Prophetic Interpretation, Texas, 1917.  Two ex...

 This is from an anti-Witness publication. Is there any evidence that Rutherford ever smoked a cigar?

 I'm 'desperate' for issues of A. P. Adam's magazine, Spirit of the Word. Care to undertake the hunt?

            On March 14, 1938, The Tampa Bay Times (Florida) carried the obituary of Maria Frances (Ackley) Russell, the wife of CTR, who h...