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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1911
Page
4
A discussion centers on Frederick F. Ayer and a Indiana group that explored inspiration from supposed spiritual sources. The story recalls a famed poet and associates who reportedly received more than passive help from beyond the veil, raising questions about the nature and legitimacy of such influences in art.
An Indiana artist recounts how James Whitcomb Riley conceived The Flying Islands of the Night. He describes Riley’s trance like writing sessions at the Dennison Hotel and the visionary music and ethereal faces that inspired the verse. The account links Riley’s spirituality with the poem’s dramatic, fantastical style.
A boy named Alfred falls ill with chest pains but doctors find no physical cause after examinations. The narrative then shifts to speculation about a spiritual visitation and a link to Booth Tarkington through his sister, Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson, whose occult interests allegedly guided Tarkington’s early success and publication path.
A Greek scholar, Mrs. Milburn, claimed Sapho supplied undiscovered poems for Lost Letters from Lesbos. In a layoff experimental session with medium Mrs. Lotta Herbine a sealed slate yielded ancient Greek writing, prompting experts to question whether Sapho truly spoke through trance or if another phenomenon produced the texts.
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