Word: dictograph
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Renewal memoranda enclosed. Was about to write you in any case. Herewith is an advertisement (by the Dictograph Products Corporation) clipped from TIME, issue of Feb. 23. I believe you believe in truth in advertising. Could anything be more contrary to actual facts than the import of the following quotations taken from the advertisement...
...tested by members of the committee and the editors. In a darkened room lights flitted about, and six "spirits" of departed Indian chiefs and others were evoked, which tapped the sitters with their paraphernalia. Electric connections between the medium's chair and instruments in an adjoining room, a dictograph, and clock watches proved that the medium left his chair whenever the spirits moved. Mr. Houdini, who was concealed in the room, declared the seance the rawest of fakes. " I have never encountered an honest medium," he said...