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Purchase by Forum afforded faltering Century honorable refuge from a life which, while eminently respectable, had become in recent years a burden. It was after the death in 1881 of Editor Josiah Gilbert Holland (cofounder with Roswell Smith) that Century reached the zenith of its editorial command. Then, under Editor Richard Watson Gilder, it scored its journalistic triumph with the serial life of Lincoln, by Nicolay & Hay, and a Civil War battle series written by the most important participants. Circulation reached its peak of 150,000 in 1906. Followed a gentle but inexorable decline which not even energetic Editor Glenn...
...Josiah Stamp, Director of the Bank of England, chief British delegate at the Young Plan Conference (TIME...
...immediate sequence are Chiromancy (Palmistry), Chiron (centaur wise in healing), Chiropodist, Chiropractic, Chiroptera (Bats). In chronicling Chiropractic the Encyclopedia commits one of its numerous errors. It pronounces B. J. Palmer the chief founder of the movement. The late Daniel David Palmer laid the foundations of chiropractic (1895). Bartholomew Josiah Palmer, his son, founded the Palmer School of Chiropractic...
Bartholomew Josiah ("B. J.") Palmer attended last week's meeting. He is a middle-aged man with a scraggy mustache and Vandyke beard. His long, pomaded hair he kept away from his white shirt collar by looping a rubber band about it. His wife, Mabel Palmer, accompanied...
Hence Bartholomew Josiah Palmer restricted himself last week to advising his colleagues, colloquially, on how to boost their business, which seems generally in a poor way. One way was to use a diagnostic machine, a "neurocalometer," which he helped to invent. The chiropractor is to apply this apparatus to his patient's spine. It is supposed to indicate how poorly "nerve impulses" are flowing and thus to indicate where the chiropractor should lay his hands. Exhorted Dr. Palmer, characteristically: "You want to step up your results. I know you do, and it's only right you should...