All Bound Together: April 2021

Ephemera

ANTIQUE EPHEMERA - ALBERT, CHAFE, SMITH, DIBBLE, WEBER, REESE, WILLIAMS, CARLETON

4/29/2021 01:28:00 PM

Antique Photos

LOST ANTIQUE PHOTOGRAPHS - Bickford, Seem, Easterling, Hadsell, Howell, Rechenberg, Smedley

4/27/2021 06:00:00 AM

Ephemera

ANTIQUE EPHEMERA - SMITH, COHEN, TIERNEY, WELCH, SMART, REYNOLDS, MCKENNA, KELLER, HEFSI, MESSLER, WILD, LOCHER

4/25/2021 06:00:00 AM

Antique Letters

Correspondence letter from a Dizzy Perry to Cadet Campbell, Box 87, N. M. M. I., Roswell, New Mexico

4/23/2021 07:41:00 AM

Ephemera

ANTIQUE EPHEMERA - Correspondence Letter from Husband to wife. Written Wednesday April 8.

4/22/2021 06:00:00 AM

After reading this sweet letter in an antique store I knew I wanted to try and find out who wrote it. I haven't made any headway there yet but it's a lovely letter. His last paragraph in particular melts my heart. It was written from some air force academy. I'm hoping there are enough clues to figure out the writer someday. Transcription at the bottom of the post.

Wednesday April 8

My Darling,

I've gotten so much mail from you in the last few days that I really feel guilty. Monday the hotplate and lighter avec brownies arrived along with a couple of letters. Yesterday the magazines, for which I thank you very much, arrived with another letter. Today I got the goodie box with the cinamon cookies came with a letter. Boy, do I feel flush. I don't know how you expect me to keep my weight down with all these goodies. I've been making an honest effort to take some off. I don't know how I'm doing, tho - there are no scales anywhere for me to check with. But you sure are putting temptation in my way.

Tonight we played bridge in my room and the goodies came in handy for snacks. Everyone liked them, including the Chinese and Korean officers who were playing with us, and the Tyland officers who were watching. Bridge and television have become our major pastimes now. The studying, what there is of it, consists of reading Air Force Regs for the most part since there is very little in the way of textbooks. The regs always have to be explained in class anyway, since they are so ambiguous and confusing, so we usually don't bother. That leaves us with a lot of free time, and without wheels, we have to stay home, so there you are - bridge and T.V.

In your last couple of letters you had some questions, so I'll try to answer them - Tal and I are in the same building, and our rooms are right next to each other on the second floor. We have a washing machine in the latrine which does a load for 25¢. No dryer, but there is a clothes line outside, and things get dry very well even if you hang them in your room. There is a service that will pick up laundry and dry cleaning in your room and put it on your B.O.Q. bill, but it is more expensive than the base laundry just a few blocks down the street near the B.X. where you can get one day service. So there is no problem on laundry. There is a maid that makes up the bed and cleans the room everyday during the week but not on weekends. I don't know yet when I come home. They're trying to move our graduation date from the 22nd to the 27th of May to coincide with the graduation of the advanced class. If they do, my orders will have to be amended since they say that I graduate on the 22nd. Right now it's still fluid, so when I find out for sure I'll let you know.

Just think, tomorrow the little girl will be a whole year old. I can hardly believe it. Sure doesn't seem like that long. She's going to be grown before we know it. Give her a great big kiss for me and tell her that Daddy said happy birthday.

Darling, I have to close and get to bed. I love you so much and miss you more than words can say. I would give anything to be home right now. Just to hold you in my arms for a little while would be worth all the money in the world to me. I think about you constantly, and the only things I look forward to is the day I come back to you.

All my love, your Tex

Canada History

The McPhail Memorial Baptist Church. Corner of Lisgar and Concession Streets. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 1893

4/22/2021 06:00:00 AM

The McPhail Memorial Baptist Church was founded in 1888 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. By 1893 a larger meetinghouse was needed and this little booklet was issued to make known intention and to solicit co-operation from others for the process. Transcription of the booklet below the photographs.

Ottawa, June, 1893.

In August, 1888, the Second Baptist Church in this city was organized with a membership of twenty-four, all of whom received letters of dismissal from the first church, and since that time, through the kindness and generosity of the parent, this off-spring has worshipped in the little Sunday School Hall on Concession street; but experience soon brought the conviction that in order to do progressive and satisfactory work, a larger and better situated building must be secured. Impressed with this fact, and realizing the needs of the community, we ventured, about two years ago, to borrow the money and purchased, at a cost of $2,000.00, a beautiful site at the corner of Lisgar and Concession streets, and, thanks to kind friends, the land is now clear of debt.

The present attendance at Sunday School and preaching services exceeds the capacity of the meeting place, and we are compelled to provide more commodious premises.

Plans have been prepared of a near and substantial brick building 72x44 feet, with auditorium capable of comfortably seating four hundred people; also well lighted basement for Sunday School purposes, and other necessary apartments. All to cost about $6,000.00, and to be known as the McPhail Memorial Church.

In choosing this name we were actuated by a desire to do honor to a departed brother whose consecrated life and unselfish interest in the eternal well-being of his fellowmen entitles him to more than ordinary recognition, and we are satisfied that this way of expressing our appreciation of his work will commend itself to the Christian public of this locality at least.

Ottawa being Mr. McPhail's last pastorate, the centre of the extensive portion of country over which he travelled and preached, and the place where he and his devoted wife died and are buried, it seems the most fitting place to erect this monument for the purpose of perpetuating his cherished memory.

The Rev. Daniel McPhail was a man of no ordinary character. Steadfast in principle, fervent in spirit, always abounding in the work of the Lord; and so Christlike in his practice of going about doing good that God honored him by a continued in-gathering of precious fruit. "Scarcely another man in the Canadian Baptist Ministry, Dr. Fyfe alone excepted, did the work which he accomplished." "Besides the thousands brought to Christ by his own personal ministry," he has multiplied himself in the lives and labors of such men as A. A. Cameron, (Mr. McPhail's successor in Ottawa) John McLaurin, the devoted and successful missionary to India; Alexander McDonald, pioneer Baptist Missionary to Manitoba, and founder of the first Baptist Church in Winnipeg; John Dempsey, Charles Brierly, D. P. McPherson, Malcolm McGregor and his brother, the late Principal McGregor, besides many others who have done good service in the Master's cause.

The name McPhail is, and ever will be, precious to those who profited by his earnest ministrations. Such need no reminder of his worth. Death itself can scarcely quench their love for him. But the rising generation of Baptists needs a perpetuation of the spirit of this "Elijah of the Ottawa Valley." For their sake as well as for the sake of one so deserving of perpetual remembrance, we have decided on our present course of action, and believing that a large majority of the Baptists of Quebec and Eastern Ontario, and especially in the Ottawa Valley where Mr. McPhail was best known, would like to have a share in this building, we issue this pamphlet for the purpose of making known our intention and soliciting co-operation.

Contribution to the funds will be thankfully received and acknowledged by the pastor, Rev. A. N. Frith, or either of the undersigned on behalf of the Trustees.

N. LINK, Treasurer

D. H. HUDSON, Secretary

Antique Photos

LOST ANTIQUE PHOTOGRAPHS - McDonald, Grundy, Phillips, Wilcox, Roark, Gossett, Hammond, Ames

4/21/2021 07:27:00 AM

Antique Photos

LOST ANTIQUE PHOTOGRAPHS - Harris, Bayers/Bayens, Thorpe, Wilson, Bailey, Tucker, Enokido, Melliss

4/20/2021 06:00:00 AM

ANTIQUE EPHEMERA - ALBERT, CHAFE, SMITH, DIBBLE, WEBER, REESE, WILLIAMS, CARLETON

LOST ANTIQUE PHOTOGRAPHS - Bickford, Seem, Easterling, Hadsell, Howell, Rechenberg, Smedley

ANTIQUE EPHEMERA - SMITH, COHEN, TIERNEY, WELCH, SMART, REYNOLDS, MCKENNA, KELLER, HEFSI, MESSLER, WILD, LOCHER

Correspondence letter from a Dizzy Perry to Cadet Campbell, Box 87, N. M. M. I., Roswell, New Mexico

ANTIQUE EPHEMERA - Correspondence Letter from Husband to wife. Written Wednesday April 8.

The McPhail Memorial Baptist Church. Corner of Lisgar and Concession Streets. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 1893

LOST ANTIQUE PHOTOGRAPHS - McDonald, Grundy, Phillips, Wilcox, Roark, Gossett, Hammond, Ames

LOST ANTIQUE PHOTOGRAPHS - Harris, Bayers/Bayens, Thorpe, Wilson, Bailey, Tucker, Enokido, Melliss

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