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FIFTY CENTS A TEAKNOTED STREET FAKIR AND MEDICINE MAN A6 HE IS SEEN IN Hi* BEAUTIFUL LAKESIDE HOMft AMONG INDIANA HILLSLf.'IS BETTER KNOWN THAH MANY HIGH OFFICIALSHAS TRAVELED ALL OVER THS UNITED STATES AND CAN T*LJJ MANY 1NTERE8TINQ ANECQOTM OF HIS 8TRANGE EXPERIENCE*.© •Special to The Indianapolis Senttasft. ' | ELK1TABT. Ind.. Dec. 2t-On 12* Mb, era shore of Lake Chrlatlana. on* of thomemrunclngly beautiful bodies of vatSS-that form_a. chain in plctctrenqtia aoothsrftj Michigan and Dorthem Indians, - stanfli the SJrnmw cottage of a izntn Who has bud a public career ox twenty-fiva ytai* whose Old of operation has from Maine to California and from Can* ada to Mexico, whose figure wtxiM prc6-ably be recogniied generally as quickly sis that of the Premdent of the United Stats* and yet about whoso private life Ims Is known than the average modest farmer.This man is Frank B. Anselm®, the aalf-atyled '•Quaker Doctor/' who, in aplt# ilt; h'.s unconventional garb and unahars locks, la enough like William Jennings Bryan In the face. form, carriage and general physical makeup to often he muh taken for tr.e celebrated oratoLof tha Platte. During a period of activity coveting a quarter of a cantury he has mads a profit, according to his own estimate, of not it as than J2ji),C00 by means of his bu«l-ncsa acumen, ready eloqutr.ee, energy* pungent wit and nerve.Frank Ar.selme's business career !s linked In many ways with a number ‘of the medicine wizard?, such as the famous “Yellowstone Kit.” ‘’Diamond DUX Dr. Lewis Turner, “Texas Tom'* Hall, J. J, McBride, the “King of Pain'* and J. L Llghthall. the “Diamond King. To tha greut multitude that has listened to'Bit vociferous argument In behalf of big curvs and been entertained by the singing and grimaces of his negro comedians, ht Is merely the conventional street fsddr, which in the popular estimation is a per-eon of uncertain mental balanoe with ^n abnormally developed propensity for geU tlr.g the money n£ unlimited gall.' Bat to those who have the good fortune ta know Frank Anselme intimately, to Mg him as he Is at home, r kind and loving husband and Indulgent father, ho Is far different from what I* generally conceived of street fakirs as the climate 'Of Greenland Is different from that at tfco*
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Indianapolis State Sentinel
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Wed, Dec 30, 1903
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