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Last week, her patience exhausted, Mrs. Houdini announced that she has lost all hope of effecting contact with her husband, that his attempt to Houdinize-himself from the (a) spirit world has been a failure, that this is another proof that Spiritualism is all fakery. Spiritualists retorted that it proved nothing. Some even charged that Houdini's spirit is being stubborn...
...mourning when any of his own men fell in battle. He wore flashy diamonds, a rose in his lapel. The sight of photographers used to drive him into a profane rage. Legends grew up about him: that he traveled in an armored car, wore a bullet-proof vest. With every gang murder that occurred in Chicago, his name was automatically connected. But the police could never fasten upon him even the semblance of legal guilt...
...light on a new plate. He hastily took the photograph to Vesto Melvin Slipher, director of the observatory. Dr. Slipher joyfully notified his younger brother, Earl Carl Slipher, and the rest of the staff, including Carl Otto Lampland. They were quite excited. Here visibly was Percival Lowell's proof. Night after night they rephotographed the planet. Pictures showed that it moved slightly in the same direction as the other planets. This was additional proof. They might have shouted out their find at once. But they deliberately saved the news until March 13. That date had a double significance in astronomy...
...that Amundsen is not yet alive. There is ample room to hope he will survive. The observations of Byrd and Amundsen verify the reports I made of what I found at the North Pole. I may have been some miles from the Pole, but there never will be absolute proof of the attainment of the Pole...
...book tells of proofs of survival, though it gives none. Most of it is taken up with arguments for the scientific plausibility of immortality. "We never find things going out of existence, though we do find them going out of our ken." Survivalist Lodge admits most scientists do not recognize the validity of proofs of immortality that have satisfied him; thinks that some day overwhelming proof will be forthcoming, hopes science will supply it. So far, "respectable psychic phenomena have been confined to mediums, automatic writing, table tapping, Ouija boards." But there have been "materializations": "ectoplasmic" bodies are seen proceeding...