July 16, 2025
Tag: Frederick Allan Mills
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Two Faces of the American Camp Meeting
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The American camp meetings of the 1890s through the 1950s were good fits into the hard-scrabble life of that era. Many areas lacked traditional churches and there were few other diversions. John Davis was one such evangelist; he called his meetings, campaigns! For those who wanted spiritual experiences, it was Davis who provided them using…
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October 28, 2021 11 Comments
Hires Root Beer, once the dominant carbonated drink in America, cannot be found any more. The story of how it came to be, and flourish is a proud one because Charles Hires had the soul of an advertising man. He explained his philosophy by saying that “doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.”