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THE FAHMER AND THE GIPSY

... Lowther, the farmer in question, stated to the police that the woman came to his house and offered to tell his fortune by palmistry and other means. He allowed her to do so, and gave her is. Shortly afterwards she returned saying that the planets could ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1881
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
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WORKHOUSE FIGURES

... which caused hearty laughter. Mr. Herman gave a clever conjuring performance, and seems to possess to perfection the art of palmistry. Our space fails us to mention all the items of the rather long programme, but we must not conclude without referring to ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1884
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
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When his first Wife died he married again, and Ins second wife was said to have died re* strangely. Decency

... good judge of what constitutes a nice lady's hand, and I myself have given some study to hands. I believe in palmistry. Do you ? Palmistry I What is that, William? Has it anything to do with your family ? Wail, no; only just as much as it has to do ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1888
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
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SHE HAD HIM WELL IN HAND

... SHE HAD HIM WELL IN HAND. Maud: Oh ! I just dote on palmistry. I've been studying it for a week and I can tell anyone's fortune now Augustus: Well, tell mine, please. Well, lot me see; this is the life line, or the other one there is, but I guess ...

Published: Wednesday 23 July 1890
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
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... Caw- be fame, he sew, he conquered. It' only necessary for him to express an opinion that a hospital with seventy-two hods palmistry, and the complacent Health Committee, in spite of its former action, at once endorses his recommendation, and pares it on ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1890
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
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_?3.7`Pt°Y GERALD'S CHOICE

... an expert in palmistry that she was to have two husbands, and she should, therefore, she foresaw, sooner or later lose the precious one she had just acquired. That individual thereupon sought to comfort her by the assuranoe that palmistry only told half ...

Published: Wednesday 13 July 1892
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
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SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH •

... automatic writing, premonitory warnings, dreams and prevision, ghosts, spiritualism, magic, the divining •od, and even palmistry and astrology. Members are not bound to subscribe to set of rules or beliefs. Indeed, there is a wide divergence of opinion ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1894
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
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THE LISCARD WESLEYAN ' BAZAAR

... refreshment stall' were important features of the ismer, while other sources of revenue were found in the phonograph, in palmistry examinations by a lady from London, in book stall in charge of Miss Louie Alston, and in musical and other entertainments ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1894
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
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ECHOES OF THE WEEK BY GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA

... roots, and that divination can be exercised by means of the purely empirical and often swindling science' of chiromancy or palmistry. There are some imposters, I believe, who tell fortunes by means of playingcards or of coffee grounds. Now did their predecessors ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1894
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
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LITERARY SOCIETY

... significance of concurrent symptoms which militated against his theory. Like the professed readers of chamcter by phrenology, palmistry, and the study of handwriting, be claimed more for nasology than could be allowed. One's individuality mild be guessed at ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1894
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
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FREDERICK BENTLEY. 22, Marlborough-grove, Oxton, 10th December, 1894

... tnmming, comb playing, cigarette manufacture, poultry and The other entertainments included character d g efiteations by palmistry by Madame Blanco, concerts, including a toy symphony, drawing room entertainments by Mr. Herbert Sharrock, and dramatic ...

Published: Wednesday 19 December 1894
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
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PEOPLE ARE SAYING

... Mrs. Burt, who (with her able lieutensat Miss Garrett, as flashier) materially waisted, by, her clever fortune-telling and palmistry,' to swell the inoeipta. The wonderful rasnnerhe which the I demonstrated the now fashiceable. at *latistry wag • leading ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1895
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
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