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Spiritualists, however, claim to know much about the afterlife through their contact with the departed. To their body of belief was added this week a notable book supposedly transmitted from the Spirit World by a New England farm boy named Wilfred Brandon who claims that the Revolutionary War ended his earthly life after 19 years in 1781. Incarnation, a Plea from the Masters*; was "dictated" by means of automatic writing to Edith Ellis, a playwright and onetime actress, now in her 70's and author of a current London success called The Lady...
...Wilfred Brandon is the most modern-minded U. S. spirit to tell earthlings about his own particular brand of the Hereafter, a realm which has been most conspicuously charted by such Britons as Rev. G. Vale Owen and Sir Oliver Lodge. The fact that Brandon uses such contemporary words as "job" and "fun" he explains by recounting how a number of "Masters" (i. e., veteran spirits) transported him "by their mental power," on a lengthy tour of the great cities of the world. The ability of spirits to visit the Earth, Brandon makes clear, has nothing to do with their...
...incarnation, to most Spiritualists a controversial subject, Spirit Brandon is positive. He declares spirits may, if they are smart, abandon their memories of their last life and return to earth as a new personality in a new body. As developed by Astral scientists and practiced with the aid of seasoned Astral physicians, the simplest method involves merging any spirit with the body of an earthly infant of five to eight weeks. "The act," reports Spirit Brandon, "requires the physician to see, in his mind's eye, the spinal cord of both the child and the soul...
Marriage Revealed. Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith, 25, daughter of Towel Tycoon Joseph F. Cannon, onetime wife of the late Zachary Smith Reynolds (Camels) and of Brandon Smith (real estate) of Charlotte, N. C.; and Lindsay Plumly, 26, nephew of onetime President Bowman Gray of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) ; at Belair...
Settled, The claim of Frank Brandon Smith Jr., Charlotte, N. C. hardwareman against his onetime father-in-law, Towel Tycoon Joseph F. Cannon. Thrice Plaintiff Smith took to court his charge that Towelman Cannon had disrupted his marriage with Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith, who previously had divorced the late Zachary Smith Reynolds (Camels). Plaintiff Smith had sued for $250,000 balm, got $12,600 out of court...