Fortune Telling, a critical glance at the crystal mind
The piece surveys fortune telling in fiction and society, noting Madame in Paris and the lure of crystal gazers. It chronicles stage illusions and real-crime cases showing how mind reading and psychological manipulation draw gullible clients, with examples from literature and racing circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Wycherley
Heggie
Hutz
Guspa
Lowndes
Edward
Sydele
Madame
Monsieur
Parkhurst and Rockefeller Press Unity in Future Church
The Rev Dr Parkhurst urges end to denominational distinctions and calls for unity in the church. He cites John D Rockefeller Jr on the future of the Christian Church, urging “Get together, Weep together, work together” and warning against competing sects. He envisions great religious centers in cities and smaller towns sustaining Christian life through cooperation and charity in non essential matters. The war accelerates unity as the churches move toward a single kingdom of God on earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merview
Parkhurst
Madison Square Presbyterian Church
New York City
John D. Hockefeller, Jr
Christian Church
Parkhuret
Church of the Future
Rockefeller
Earth
Open Boat in War Time Echoes of Sailors’ Banter
Folkloric verse from London Punch depicts sailors in an open boat during war, imagining battles, beer, and hardship. Dan the sailor-man repeats defiant lines about thirst, hunger, and losing ships as prayers for peace drift through dark seas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des
Dan
Pea
Ays Dan
Lond
London
Prose Fragments on Virtue and Wisdom from 1644
A collection of aphoristic lines discussing openness, gentleness, and justice. It urges marrying for love, values honesty over treachery, warns against misplaced parental care, and likens a man to a watch to be judged by his actions. It notes knowledge as treasure and judgment as a wise man's treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ponm
Voices of Living Poets on Death and War
In a Chicago Tribune poem from the 1T Class of the University of Abers now in France an officer celebrates death as nobility and glory. A British Indian Army officer in Harpers New York welcomes the grim reaper with a hearty laugh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Frohman
Chicago Tribune
S Lad
University of
Harper's
New York
Britain
Grim Reaper
Afterward Epitaph of a Soldier and His Sikhs
The speaker imagines an epitaph spoken after death, detailing sorrow and tribute. He speaks of a Sikh company, a chestnut charger, and comrades who will drink and laugh at his memory while fill the gap his loss leaves. The verse ends with a plea that readers laugh rather than mourn.
Flowers of Sleep memorial poem note in Berantos Times
Fragmentary poem tribute appears in the Berantos Times praising fallen soldiers and memory. Mentions scarlet flowers and laurels, and the duty of those left behind to honor the dead, with deliberate reverence for the fallen in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Berantos
Champions of War and Lullabies Across the Nation
A Northern Christian Advocate page features a World War I poetry section praising heroes and mourning the dead. It includes poems like The Champions by Ausmar E and a lullaby about fallen soldiers urging remembrance and peace. DOREEN WALTER Greenwi gh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Northwetern Christian Advocate
Chicago
Ihs
Fragmented World View Amid War Notes and Oddities
Disjointed snippets from wartime era cite political thoughts in Germany Austria and Japan while odd anecdotes mingle. A Welsh internment tale, a blown highway hazard, and a Reading fortune teller thread through reports of shortages and shifting policies.
War talk and social notes mix in chaotic 1914 fragment
The fragment references Emperor letters to Roumania, Anglo Indian themes, wartime hunger and rationing, charity drives, court banalities, and social quirks. It notes food pressures, emigration concerns, and anti conscription talk, with scattered mentions of Germany, Ireland, and labor groups.
Curing by Colors at a London Hospital Ward
The color specialist Mr H Kemp Proc expounds on curing nerve strain by blue ceilings and yellow walls to harmonize a room. He plans to test the method at Miss Mcoul’s hospital in Welbeck Street London, using a ward for his experiments amid excitement over a fashionable ward design.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Kemp
Miss M'Coul's Hospital
Offcam
Welbeck Street
London
Design for shell-shock rooms and calming colors
A Daily Sketch report describes architectural ideas to ease shell-shock patients with soothing palettes. Red and brown are deemed harsh, blue and yellow proposed to calm the mind, with walls fading to primrose and lemon tones to create a tranquil atmosphere.
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Fortuus Tellem
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Ofen
Don the Seilorman
Europe
Voices OF Living Poets
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Acre
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Crm
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Gods
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Joe
Dad I
Lawrel
Yur
Desih
Nordusi
Goldem
Lina
Reinbow
Thia
Ausmar E
Gurr
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Pershing
Gare
Doreen Walter
Emile
Motior
Japan
Huss
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Vermio
Gill
Germany
May & Hus
Kamersd
Sweden
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Crowm Prine
Berlin
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Od Maére
Tia
King's Crom Station
Reading
Eng
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Roumania
Tota
Spain
Nina
Claud Hamilton
Clerkenwell County Court
Emglemd
Soviet
Rusia
Holshevik
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Charkes
Parwon
Rhine
Tsn
Mohammed V
Multan
Derwin
Dublin
Wilson
Ieland
Ireland
Professor Sprague
U.K
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Williary
Boye
Liverpool
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Buffalo News
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