Category: History - American
In the autumn of 1891, the author of this narrative was business manager of the Modesto (California) _Daily News_. One afternoon while he was engaged in an important consultation with the late Senator J. D. Spencer, one of the owners of the _News_, there was a knock at the doo...
It was on September 4, 1893, that a number of the most prominent citizens of San Francisco held a daylight seance (at high noon) at the office of Mayor Ellert. The company had a...
4. CHAPTER IV.To any one who has a fair knowledge of human nature, a glance at the line pictures of the gentlemen who participated in the events with which this book deals will tell that they...
1. CHAPTER I.In the autumn of 1891, the author of this narrative was business manager of the Modesto (California) _Daily News_. One afternoon while he was engaged in an important consultatio...
2. CHAPTER II.That the reader may fully understand the origin of the experiments recorded in the narrative that follows, it is necessary to state again that I was a writer for the _Examiner_...