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D76044-2
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- 1953-06-19 (Creation)
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Evangelistic Tabernacle. Overall picture of Mr. George Phillips speaking onstage with his "board." Ordered by Mrs. George Phillips. There was a Rev. George W. Phillips at 5310 No. Shirley who was manager of the World Wide Missionary Effort, a publication. He was better known as Tacoma's "whiskey bottle evangelist." A reformed alcoholic, Phillips used bottles, and sometimes helium balloons, to carry his religious tracts around the world. The tracts were stuffed into glass tubes, then placed in bottles with sand as ballast and thrown into the Puget Sound. They were also released by sailors in the middle of the ocean. There are bottles of various sizes and types below the board containing sand and the long thin tube with the religious tract. The board is covered with the responses that he has received to his message in a bottle.
Evangelistic Tabernacle (Tacoma); Phillips, George W.; Evangelists; Correspondence--Tacoma--1950-1960; Bottles;