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A CONJUROR TROUBLE A

... from particular planetary aspects. But fortune telling was held to be some idle and attached to the turning up of cards or palmistry. Nothing l ;' cards in tha evidence, the witnesses state that * pent to have their planets ruled*and this certainly has nothing ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1839
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2839 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE ASTROLOGER IN TROUBLE!

... prisoner. He endeavoured to press upon the Court that the prisoner was not an impostor, or mere fortuneteller, with cards or by palmistry, but that he practised the science of astrology, which science was not illegal, and had been studied and written on very ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1839
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2829 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FORTUNE TELLING

... FORTUNE TELLING. Punch of this week contains a humorous engraving, representing a tall gipsy practising palmistry on very little man. There is no difficulty in recognising the former as intended for Sir Robert Peel, and the latter for Lord John Russell ...

Published: Saturday 14 August 1847
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 784 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EXETER,

... it miay be, tend to aid the efforts making for weaning tirsrr front tioso rovirrg habite, us well as those of deceit anst palmistry, wbich, thlrotl irrleestod wiw sotomething of the tharmrs of pootry,-yet cars have iso other effect tian causing them to ...

Published: Thursday 25 November 1847
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 16244 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

BARNSTAPLE POLICE

... bench took the case under the wider clause of the act, which made an .offence for one person to impose upon..another..'*'by palmistry or otherwise, should like to know they would stop. The fact was, this case the informant was the imposfer, for she went ...

Published: Thursday 11 May 1848
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 717 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA, AND PROTECTION TO NATIVE INDUSTRY

... been on the wane, a mere successful studier of the stars residing in the eastern part of this city. The deceased eschewed palmistry, and undertook to read for. tunes and cast nativities without reference to dates or ephemira, and by merely looking at the ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1850
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3991 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Spirit of the Press

... opinions, that any act should be able to survive the judicial subtleties and refinements. classed law with the sham sciences of palmistry, and astrology, the ground of its dislike to the use of plain language; and a more edifying exhibition of its jargon has ...

Published: Thursday 20 February 1851
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 6306 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

KINGSBRIDGE

... returned into the church to perform his wonderful and imposing ceremony of confirmation. Before coming to this act of' sacred palmistry, the right reverend father delivered a» address to the young people, similar both word and character to addresses delivered ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1854
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 679 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

District News

... and Nathaniel Vye, Esq., magistrates, as a rogue and vagabond, for that she did pretend to tell fortunes, to wit by palmistry deceive and impose upon poor silly fool, who need not be further punished by being named here. The charge was proved, and ...

Published: Thursday 30 November 1854
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1945 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

... characteristics in common ; the skill to decei e, to telly and intimidate, the unscrupulous, ness to-Cat. the dextrous palmistry pretty equally tod; but the energy of the H.H. circle the old virulent you please, lively. Glum enough they look from their ...

Published: Saturday 06 November 1858
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 7588 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES. STATISTICS SHEW THAT 50,000 PERSONS Ily tell victims to Palmistry Disorders, is- ..

... KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES. STATISTICS SHEW THAT 50,000 PERSONS Ily tell victims to Palmistry Disorders, is- Maras Diemen of SM ChM, and the lespiretery Otpos. Is Um eere ; be, raldudes the wet wed wietry seam, with • I ed NOM COUGH LOZENGES, white mum ...

Published: Wednesday 30 January 1861
Newspaper: Plymouth Mail
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 272 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

The Western Times

... rather priestfully. Last Friday, June 6th, Dr. Trower was at North Tawton, where he subjected a lot of heads to his episcopal palmistry. Confirmation is held by high churchmen to be sort of supplemental rite sacrament of baptism ; and it would seem as if Dr ...

Published: Saturday 14 June 1862
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1317 | Page: 5 | Tags: none