Fortune Tellers Rise in a Distrustful America
Hazel Canning Green surveys a boom in fortune telling as Americans seek guidance postwar. From palm readers to astrologers, readers and researchers note rising spending on superstitions, with prices from five to fifty dollars and methods including spirit mirrors and psychometry.
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Hazel Canning Green
Madame Zoroaster
Zoroaster
America
Germany
Jim
John R. Saunders
American Museum of Natural History
Mr. Saunders
United States
Louisiana
Alabama
Mississippi
Washington
Earth
Washington, D.C
Bill
Earle's Vivid Life Sparks A Political Romance Tour
Theodore Earle, ex governor and minister to Bulgaria, recalls a dramatic career and a second marriage to Jacqueline. From a courtship sparked at a Turkey embassy dance on Lincoln's Birthday to a December Istanbul wedding, their romance unfolds through confrontations, intrigue, and a honeymoon voyage aboard the freighter Exhibiter as they tour the country.
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Earle
Pennsylvania
Flying Fang
Austria
Howard Earle II
Bulgaria
Saueak
Susquehanna River
Hamrisburg
Legation
Mr. Earle
Ralph Earle
Benjamin Franklin
Anthony Wayne
Jacqueline
Theodore Campbell Sheaffer
Sofia
Germany
England
Tipperary
George
Lincoln
Turkey
United States
Harle
Istanbul
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