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“Tent Meetings Begin on Saturday” – Brookville, Ohio (1915)

August 29, 2025 No Comments

In the summer of 1915, Miss Anna Kipe was attending Bible School in Grantham, PA. Grantham, an unincorporated community of Cumberland County in south- central

“An Invitation with Ferns” – Hannibal, Missouri (1910)

June 30, 2024 No Comments

Mrs. Mary Lehenbauer lived on a rural route outside Hannibal, the Mississippi River town made famous by Mark Twain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal,_Missouri In November of 1910, Mrs.

Anna Writes from New Haven – Mauch Chunk, PA (1907)

April 19, 2023 No Comments

Miss Frieda Rohrig lived in Mauch Chunk, a borough on the Lehigh River in east central Pennsylvania. Mauch Chunk (the name is derived from indigenous