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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1880
Page
3
A San Francisco Chronicle report describes a Medium Mrs. Lennart guiding a skeptical visitor through a spiritual séance. Writing appeared on slates as supposed communications from the dead, with signatures matching a deceased friend and a verification via a signed message.
A Syracuse reporter interviews Madame Dix, a fortune teller who reads cards and sells charms. She claims French descent and a flair for predicting love entanglements, marital troubles, and sudden wealth. The piece notes skepticism about gullibility and records her brief Rochester to Syracuse visit.
A Syracuse Sunday Herald piece recounts a reporter's visit to a home on Fitch Street and Lincoln Avenue where Madame Dix offers fortune telling with cards and blue glass to reveal age and fate. A separate tale recalls M Berman’s doomed Turkish intrigue ending in disappearance after a cemetery rendezvous.
The text notes a rapid writer can produce thirty words a minute and trace a pen through a space of a rod, sixteen and a half feet long. It cites forty minutes for a furlong of pen movement and claims totals of 144 000 words per day at five hours and 42 200 000 per year across 300 days.
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