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Spirit slate writing and kindred phenomena (1898)

Soo, Chung Ling, 1861-1918, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York City : Munn & Company · leaf 17

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g is placed on theslate beforehand, and then hidden from view by a 4 SPIRIT SLATE WRITING. flap or loose piece of slate. (Fig. i.) After bothsides of the slate have been cleaned, the false flap isdropped on the table, the side which is then upper-most being covered with cloth similar to the… … Fig. I.—Ordinary Slate with Flap. a piece of newspaper and is allowed to drop into anewspaper lying on the table, then the newspapercontaining the flap is carelessly removed, thus doingaway with any trace ol trickery. Another way ol utilizing the false flap is as fol-lows: The writing is not placed…

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