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PALMISTRY AND FORTUNETELLING

... witnesses, and she only delineated characteristics and general tendencies. Mr. Stewart said there was no objection to palmistry as palmistry, but foretelling ten- dencies might come so near the border line as to become fortune-telling. Continuing, defendant ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1900
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1865 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

TOPICS OF THE DAY

... telling fortunes, or of using subtle means, crafts, and devices, by palmistry or otherwise, with intent to deceive. .Now, int making out the conviction in Slade's case the words l)y palmistry or otherwise were omitted. Why this omission took place, Mr. ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1877
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1694 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE HUDDERSFIELD SPIRITUALIST

... the section or otherwise must be read ing. connection with palmistry, or the telling of fortunes by the lines of the hand. In his (the learned jadge's) opinion, if the words by palmistry or otherwise, had i altogether been omitted, the application ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1877
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1412 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN TELEGRAMS

... from the old act against ?? or Egyptians, and was N aimed at the practice of telling fortunes by palmistry C or by things ejusdemi generici with palm-istry, such as II chrommecy, or looking at the lines of the face, and did not apply to the evocation of ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1877
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1584 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FORTUNE TELLING IN LIVERPOOL

... watched ?? occupied by the O iled prisoner in Bold whsreet, where she advertised that : nil- she carried on the profession of paLmistry. On the tieir arresting the prisoner, she Eaid, I never Igo. tell fortuanes. I always presch against it Whoa poi the police ...

Published: Friday 22 January 1897
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 943 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

FORTUNE TELLING IN LIVERPOOL

... subjects Amording too the dio- 1- tionaraies, pretending to tol fortune meat tell- e 3e log something regarding tle future. Palmistry in ,Y itself might be an aart or science, but when, as in 'r the presen cwawmprtn at at cae, a Scan pret d to tenl the n ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1900
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1744 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

CHIROMANCY

... for. tunes told-3jst for fun, you know. Not long ago, at a meetiu of scientifin men, one of them broached the subject of palmistry, and, taking up the band of one of the members of the party, he traced his past end suggested his future with so much ap ...

Published: Monday 06 August 1888
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1928 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ROUMANIANS AND ROMANI

... conclusion that they were speaking Romanv. but they were not. I have no animosity towards RB. M., and wish success to his palmistry; but there is no occasion to be rude. C. DoDsuomN. AuguQst 24, 186. a TO TEM nrVoW OP TIS LTVERPOOL nACUnR. Gentlemen,-With ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1886
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 429 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

CONVICTION OF DR. SLADE

... device, by palmistry : or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any'of her e Majesty's subjects. I think that in. order to -constiisutO' a this offence two things are necessary-namely, using t somesubtle craft,-means, or device like palmistry, and k an attempt ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1876
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1679 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... Mr. Tooth; he is not to go to prison. He has got off upon a technicality. The specific words mentioned in the act, by palmistry or otherwise: were omitted by Mr. Staveley Hill from the charge upon which the accused was convicted. They were omitted ...

Published: Tuesday 30 January 1877
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1425 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

BRITISH TRAWLERS AND DANISH GUNBOATS

... some ( portion of their fleet to work on the Icelandic coast. E C LEGALITY OF PALMISTRY.cc IMPORTAN\T DECISION. A test case affecting the legality of professional 1 palmistry was decided at Wakefield Sessions v yesterday, when a man named Livesey and his ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1899
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2274 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS, &C

... case on Monday without the facts cuin; entered into or the points okf law deciccd. beoause of the omission oi the words palmistry or ocherwise in the appeal case. Evidence would Low be forthcomiotz i'3 support of, the cl.a3e of con-pira: T 'he~ ~ , _ ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1877
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 670 | Page: 7 | Tags: News