Mind Force Wireless Telegraphy Trials At Washington
The Society for Psychical Research reports experiments in wireless thought transmission here, claiming higher accuracy than Marconi with mind focused apparatus. Transmitters use a stereopticon lamp and disks to convey letters and designs, while receivers in darkness, with bandaged eyes, reinterpret the signals into images, colors, or shapes across distances up to 200 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Society For Psychical Research
Marconi
William Crookes
Prince of British Chemists
Royal Society
William
John Elfreth Watkins, JR
Fictions Of The Town Ends With A Humble Toothbrush
A bustling Washington Street scene ends with a tired man in a saloon, a prying crowd, and a humorous chase for a secret drawer in Judge Jobkins household. Angelina buys a colonial table and guests imagine silver and love letters, only to find a moth-eaten toothbrush.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judge Jobson Jobkins
Angelina
Whittlecomb Jobkins
Halcyon
Ellen Stone asserts prayers led to deliverance from brigands
In a Chicago Post piece Roswell M. Field relays Ellen Stone’s claim that divine prayers secured her freedom from captors, while the paper quips on the exchange of money and prayer in a missionary context. It reflects on providence, ransom, and faith amid perilous captivity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roswell M. Field
Chicago Post
Ellen Stone
Pharaoh
Israel
Oh Love and Autumn in the Grass
A fragment from Charlotte Becker in Town and Country recalls a lovers joyful youth. The speaker contrasts the past pledge of truth with present gloom as summer ends and grief replaces joy among withered grasses and bare boughs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Becker
Old-School Undertaker Shapes a Town and a Grave
A long profile of Ambrose Bolin the undertaker in a growing town shows his salesmanship and ritual for funeral rites. It recounts his rise from furniture dealer to funeral director, his humorous ceremonies, his wartime-like authority at services, a past romance, and a grim tale of Toss Bogartus whose death ends on a porch chair, with Bolin arranging the coffin and funeral logistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ambrose Bolin
Bolin
Indianapolis
Mr. Bolin
Mr. Bogarius
China
Bogartus
Brother Bogartus
Granarias
Brother Bogarius
D. G
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Psychical Research Society
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Ilinois Street
Hackman
Kentucky Avenue
Tron
Market
Chlfo Street
Fred
Mms
Toss Bogartus
Indiana
South
Delaware Street
New York
Lutterick
India
Caere
Batiste
Tub Ford
Our
Ec Value
Dai
W.l
Sorosis
Oxfords
Iso
N. Drucker & Co
Curtis Bray
Aresafe
Bfee
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