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e^»no^9vw J«3KtTii«»7mrn irnTrtiii.TjLAirwiiiimi’=iasrDTW*^ncir««cii3tEater ‘‘Spirits From the Vasty Deep”? S®rEMrt!W.l.U»r^-Hlul»HMm.nuWT i¥lip ,n^C»rfrtiiem*nrorms»n^Ju™»«^im«ti«aiiOuonm«Uin-«=«ve^ w* iwwlt;=»»rSir Arthur Conan Doyle has an opportunity to win money with his photographs of ectoplasm, the mysterious substance which he contends is the link between the spiritual and material worlds and which he says records its presence on the photographic film. The Scientific American has offered $5,000 In prizes for genuine psychic phenomena produced under conditions which it will name, and among them is a $2,500 prize for a psychic photograph.When Sir Arthur was in this coun- . . ...... . , ... ,try lecturing he showed a number of • ••- ‘psychic photographs, many of whichlse'said had been taken by himself un- : jder rigid tests which precluded fraud.Some of them were of persons dead, among them his son, and in nearly all of thorn the spiritual representation had been formed from the white substance which he called ectoplasm.Tn its announcement, the .Scientific ( ...American says: On the basis of existing data we are unable to reach a definite j conclusion os to the validity of psychic claims, in the effort to clear up this I eVl confusion and to present to our- readers first-hand and authenticated informa- 1 iion regarding this most balding of all studies, we are making this offer,Always we have had soothsayers and liamspices, oracles and fortune tellers, witches and prophets; the medium of the latest 1023 model Is but the same old thing brought up to date,” an editorial in the magazine says.
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Le Grand Reporter
Le Grand, Iowa, US
Fri, Dec 15, 1922
Page 2
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