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“Cradle Roll Day” – Free Methodist Church (1938)

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(Below, we learn from a helpful Church Archivist, that the postcard relates to a congregation in Whittier, California.) The Free Methodist Church, one branch of

An Alpine Church for Mr. Hartman – Rouserville, PA (circa 1910)

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Mr. B. F. Hartman lived in Rouserville, an unincorporated community in Franklin County of south-central Pennsylvania. The community, near Waynesboro, uses alternate spellings of “Rouzerville”

An Angel in Blue – Frostburg. Maryland (1909)

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(If you read to the end of the story, you will see that the Guardian Angel may have been very busy.) Mr. Karl Schlosstein, Jr,

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