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Three fascinating, action packed stories from the old holiness literature circa late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our first story is call…
Venetian Life
Read by Timothy Ferguson
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was American Consul to Venice for four years. His term ended in 1865. He wrote about the city, and the culture of the V…
The Story of London
Read by Paul Lawley-Jones
Henry B. Wheatley
A non-exhaustive history of London from the earliest settlement up to early modern times, focusing on the daily lives of its citizens, the a…
Conversion
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Among the twelve hundred poems which have emanated from my too prolific pen there are some forty or fifty which treat entirely of that emoti…
Tales of Shipwrecks and Other Disasters at Sea
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Thomas Bingley
Ten accounts of events from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when life at sea was a perilous venture. The book is presented as a seri…
Annie Oakley, Woman at Arms
Read by Barry Eads
Courtney Ryley Cooper
Annie Oakley was without a doubt the greatest markswomen who ever lived. She was christened Phoebe Ann Mosey but was called Annie from child…
A History of the Great War
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John Buchan
This is the third of a four-volume history of the First World War, coming in along the Ypres Salient in February 1916 and stopping mid-Novem…
A Voice From The Main Deck
Read by Barry Eads
Samuel Leech
Samuel Leech was a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812. He became notable as one of very few wh…
The dogaressas of Venice
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Edgcumbe Staley
A series of biographies of the wives of the doges (leaders) of the Venetian Republic. - Summary by Timothy
The Modern Woman's Rights Movement
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Käthe Schirmacher
A history of the international woman’s rights movements originally published in 1905 and updated in 1909; English translation published in 1…
News From No Man's Land
Read by David Wales
James Green
James Green (1864-1948) was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Forc…
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania
Read by David Wales
Frederick Herman Tilberg
On the gently rolling farm lands surrounding the little town of Gettysburg, Pa., was fought one of the great decisive battles of American hi…
Lives of the Presidents of the United States
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Helen W. Pierson
This book consists of simple biographies of the first 23 Presidents of the United States written chiefly in words of one syllable. Books suc…
History of the Norwegian People
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Knut Gjerset
A detailed and exhaustive history of the Norwegian People, written in two volumes. This second volume deals with Norwegian History from the …
Crime Classics
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
CRIME CLASSICS Crime Classics came to CBS September 30, 1953 and was a neat little series of "true crime stories". The show introd…
Democracy in America
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA Democracy in America is a well-produced dramatization of Alexis de Tocqueville’s book of the same name. These fourteen,…
Fort Laramie
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
FORT LARAMIE Fort Laramie opened with "Specially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the wild frontier. The saga of figh…
Recollections at 30
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
RECOLLECTIONS AT 30 A radio manufacturer named the Radio Corporation of America, which we know as RCA, began to broadcast its own programs o…
The Sound of War
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
THE SOUND OF WAR The Sound of War is an 18 episode collection. Jay Hickerson's "The Ultimate Guide to all Circulating Shows" state…
We Came This Way
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
WE CAME THIS WAY NBC University of The Air presented several educational programs between 1942 and 1948. The subject matter and themes range…