Fortunes Told Among Indianapolis Clairvoyants
Indianapolis faces a surge of fortune tellers and trance seers. Merchants, educators, and society figures attend séances amid a mix of resident clairvoyants and roaming strollers. A male life-reader claims supremacy, while rival readers distrust each other and one healer, Mrs. Thornton, works with a mysterious controlling spirit from East Indian lore.
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Indianapolis
Madame
Piusy
Hinducatan
Collred
North West Street
Mrs. Thornton
Hindoostan
Chamberlain and fortune tellers mark Indianapolis page
Britain's Colonial Secretary Chamberlain faced criticism over his South Africa policy yet drew cheers from Conservatives in Commons. Separately an Indianapolis feature profiles Madam Belleville a touring clairvoyant who trades on her past as circus performer and book agent. She warns of fakery but says readings often prove accurate. Locals flock to slate writers and fortune tellers, paying quarters to learn their futures.
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Mr. Chamberlain
Great Britain
England
South Africa
London
House of Commons
Henry Labouchere
Balfour
Indianapolis
Belleville
Kansas City
Europe
San Francisco
California
United States
Index of Harper's Magazine by Harper staff
After joining Harper staff I observed Fletcher Harper, Brooklyn Joe, Joe 2d, and Joe Abner push for an Harper's Magazine index. Correspondence with Curtis Guernsey and H. M. Alden led to me undertaking the index project for the publication.
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W. F. G. Shanks
New York Times
Harper
Fletcher Harper
Harper's Magazine
Joseph W., Jr
Brooklyn
Joe
Joseph W
Joe 2d
Twenty-second Street
Joseph Abner
Joe Abner
Wesley Brothers
John
Fifth Avenue Jack
Fletcher
Brooklyn Joe
George William Curtis
Weekly
Guernsey
H. M. Alden
August in Beecher's Star Papers
A poetic meditation on August describing the month as lively with nature despite heat. The piece contrasts sun and dew, praises insects, plants, and animals, and imagines August as the ripening center of nature’s harmony.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Two Indianapolis Families Poisoned by Mushrooms
An Indianapolis report describes two families poisoned after eating wild mushrooms during a rainy spell. It notes local fungus growths, amateur mycologists, and distinctions between edible varieties and dangerous toadstools, including button mushrooms and oyster mushrooms.
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Indianapolis
Meridian Street
William C. Dickson
Pennsylvania Street
Dickson
United States
Indiana
South
Lafollette Fights Spooner and Wisconsin State Issues
Governor Lafollette mounts a strong re election challenge to Senator Spooner, winning a resolution at the state convention to focus the race on state issues rather than national service. The piece shifts to a nostalgic Indiana garden scene with descriptions of an old Scribner homestead and its cherished plants and memories.
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Lafollette
Wisconsin
Senator Spooner
Spooner
An Old Garden in August
A reflective note on aged gardens in historic towns, praising their hidden charm and the personal quiet of older plots. Describes gardens sloping toward rivers, tucked behind homesteads, valued for their individual appeal over formal borders.
Bronze medallion of Susan B Anthony to Rochester University
A bronze medallion of Susan B Anthony will be presented to Rochester University in the fall. The plaster model photograph is claimed to be the best picture of the noted reformer. Anthony's efforts enabled co education at Rochester New York, justifying the proposed presentation.
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Susan B. Anthony
Rochester University
Miss Anthony
Rochester
N. Y
Night lunch wenders replace hot wienie man in Indianapolis
The hot wienie man has vanished from downtown Indianapolis as illuminated wagons and carts take over street corners at night. Pete Finkman and Emanuel from St. Louis began sausage sandwich vending here eight years ago, pioneering the late night street snack. The new lunch wagons attract crowds as the novelty fades, yet the street food tradition persists with fire and frying in the bed of mobile carts each night.
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Indianapolis
Pete Finkman
Emanuel
St. Louis
Pete
Illinois
Washington Streets
New York
Chicago
St. Louie
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North Meridian Street
College Avenue
Weill
Morris Street
Britain
Henry C. Potter
Aing
Clark
Potter
Episcopal Diocese of
Horace Walpole
Scribner
Ohio
Lord Bacon
Althea
Woodbine
Nerina
Mary
Harriet
Phoebe
Lucy
Esther
Julia Ann
Caroline Matilda
Adeline
Carleton
New Albany
Ind
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