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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1921
Page
2
Special Officers Sullivan and Kilroy stumbled on a Hanover street game during a morning event. A spokesman called for another try as a top buzzed and landed in a party of six, while officers seized four youths and chased two who fled through a doorway.
Lawrence hears a second sleeping sickness death in a week Agnes Murphy 11 daughter of Frank Murphy of 194 Willow Street died after a three week illness in the city authorities reported.
Nicholas Zuchling of Doylestown Pennsylvania floated ashore in Long Beach New York after an all night voyage aboard a crude plank. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail for disorderly conduct. Police said he admitted leaping into the water planning a trip to eternity but his self preservation compelled him to seek shore. They believe the voyage began at Coney Island or Sheepshead Bay.
The naval air station at Hampton Roads Virginia reports the blimp C-3 exploded while rising for a photographic flight. Four aboard were injured lightly to moderately with two burned. all escaped serious harm. The airship was destroyed after the blast at about 76 feet altitude.
Mrs. Mary Jane Whitney of the Somerville Home for Aged, known as Betsey Ross, turns 100 today in very good health for her age. A native of Hallowell Maine she descends from Revolutionary stock with her father a War of 1812 veteran and her grandfather Captain John Couch who fought in the Revolution. She has long mended the flags of the city and will receive a reception this afternoon.
The British freighter Lexington arriving at Hoosac docks reports passing six large icebergs off the Grand Banks last Saturday. The bergs include a 900 foot long one and a 700 foot long one, each about 200 feet high, highlighting ongoing iceberg danger to transatlantic shipping.
Dr Jules H Stean reports the reincarnated soul of an Egyptian Princess inhabits a 19 year old Worcester girl He staged an occult exhibition at his Park Avenue apartment The event featured a Temple of Isis and Osiris with the Princess performing the Dance of the Flame in a half hour display
A half hour performance draws a tiny audience including Dr Stean’s wife a reporter and a photographer as the mysterious act evokes the ancient world and astonishes spectators with its spectacle and eeriness.
Dr Stean uses psycho anesthesia to reveal a girl’s subconscious past life as part of his research. He requests secrecy for the patient’s identity and plans to expose more past age memories after refining his dream sleep technique. Stean hails from Alsace Lorraine and studied abroad.
Dr Stean, a noted research chemist, demonstrates pseudo hypnotic methods called psy cho-anaesthesia. He claims to develop voices and skills in subjects, including a girl who can dance the Temple of Isis and Osiris and perform minor operations without pain, under his influence.
A fragment suggests Psaypho anesthesia will reveal whether a hopeful future is achievable by inner knowledge or remains just a dream without foundation. The text debates whether the dream has substance or is illusory based on internal capability.
To the Editor the writer applauds a brief Post editorial on personal liberty. He cites the legal definition and argues real infringements would threaten free churches, asking who granted American liberties, recalling historical church ties.
The letter from B Tallmadge Root, executive secretary of the Massachusetts Federation of Churches, urges that the courthouse inscription “Obedience to the law’s liberty” be engraved in every American heart. It references diverse faiths, including Plymouth sects, Rhode Island Baptists, Penano Friends, and Maryland Catholics, in support of unity under law.
In New York on July 7 the historic wooden pier used by Robert Fulton’s Clermont was demolished. The companion dock will be replaced by new concrete and steel wharves.
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