Word: zodiac
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your astrology a la Zodiac (p. 22, Jan. 30 issue) interests me. I note...
...cast a horoscope accurately one must know the hour, day and year of one's birth. The following list gives the general characteristics of people born under the twelve signs of the Zodiac. However, one's entire personality may be twisted by the rising of a conflicting sign or planet within the period...
...said to study the Yogi philosophy. Oklahomans embellish their stories about Governor Johnston with sarcastic references to gnomes, nymphs, sylphs, salamanders, crystal-gazing, mystic numbers. Newsgatherers relate how Governor Johnston once said he would sign a certain bill at a certain time "because the signs of the Zodiac will be favorable then." Was he joking? Or was he serious...
Devotees of these esoteric cults are sincere in their beliefs, although many of their exploiters are out and out charlatans. For dabblers in spiritualism, regular supply houses advertise "zodiac rings," "Arabian Sheik rings," "talismanic jewelry, charms, pendants, brooches, rings, pins, bracelets," hardwood ouija boards, gazing crystals, "destiny charts," "astrological guides,"; "Grand Imperial Incense." "prayer incense, collapsible trumpets, aluminum trumpets, "luminous bands" and a host of other accessories...
Johnson Expedition. Besides the Amundsen rescue parties, the schooner Zodiac, 130-foot yacht of Johnson & Johnson (Robert W. and J. Steward), manufacturers of surgical supplies at New Brunswick, N. J., was soon to nose into the north with both Johnson brothers aboard. Their destination was to be Newfoundland, where they would search the ice-bitten shores for traces of the 40-ft. sloop Leif Ericsson which sailed out of Reykjavik, Iceland, last August under an amateut Norwegian skipper with a party of artists to "follow the trail of the Vikings" to Nova Scotia. Last winter, the U. S. cruiser Trenton...