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D20959-2
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- 1945-12 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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In this photograph from 1945, George W. Phillips, known as Tacoma's "whiskey bottle evangelist", is busy winding one of the messages he sent around the world in glass bottles. He arranged with sailors to drop the bottles, with their messages, into the middle of the ocean off both coasts of the United States. Each bottle contained a religious tract that began "The time has come to act". By 1945, Mr. Phillips bottles had reached the shores of 14 nations. (T. Times, 11/9/1945, p.1)
Phillips, George W.; Correspondence--Tacoma--1940-1950; Bottles;