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What About City Government, Pipe And Pen Club [Twine Bound Bundle], Earl Clement Davis
What About City Government, Pipe And Pen Club [Twine Bound Bundle], Earl Clement Davis
Manuscripts
This is one of twelve sermons Earl Davis kept together in a twine-bound bundle. While these manuscripts are undated, internal evidence clearly dates them to the years 1909-1911. The United States went through a recession in 1908, and there was increasing labor unrest, including a general strike in Philadelphia in 1910. These difficulties provide some of the backdrop to these manuscripts.
This particular manuscript has a clear notation that it was written for the “Pipe and Pen Club,” presumably some periodic gathering to discuss issues of the day. It is possible that all – or nearly all – of these …