Newspaper Scan from 1919: Rutherford Declares the End of the World!

by Wild_Thing 11 Replies latest jw friends

  • Wild_Thing
    Wild_Thing

    Thanks, cabasilas! I didn't think about saving it as a pdf file. And I do have many scans, but I am still working on collecting more. So far, I have concentrated my search from the late 1800's to about 1930.

    The thing that is really frustrating to me is that I know that there are probably a lot of newspaper articles about Russell in the Pittsburgh paper, but they have not digitized their archives, so it is difficult to find newspaper scans short of going there in person or paying for a third party newspaper archive membership, and they may or may not have the Pittsburgh papers.

    I would love to see the actual newspaper article where it says that Russell stood on a bridge waiting for the rapture in 1878. I know it was a Pittsburgh paper.

    It is also amazing to me how many advertisements the early watchtower took out in newspapers. They aren't litte ones either! Most of them have graphics and almost always has Rutherford's pictures, and those cost a lot of money to print. They really poored a lot on money into marketing.

    This one shows the beginning of the irony. From May 12, 1928:

  • moshe
    moshe

    I printed out the story and read it with 3x magnifier glasses - I think that with just a little tweaking I could have delivered this as a Sunday morning talk at the KH and everyone would have listened to it and not have even raised an eyebrow- the tone of their messages has really not changed all that much over the years. This makes really good flyer to go with the Jan 1st 2007 WT. - I wish I could hand them out in the KH before the WT study of that issue.

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