Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-18
NEW RECORD MADE
MRS. MARTHA B. JOHNSTON RE-
cElvEs TELEPATHlc MES
AGES FROM PALo ALTO.
Distance Of 5000 MIes-startles Stu
dents of Psychological Former
Newspaper Woman Of This City
Attracting Much Attention.

Mrs. Martha B. Johnston, OF Des
Moines. formerly well known news
paper woman of this city, has estab-
lished new worlds record in tele-
pathy or mind reading by receiving
telepathic messages from Palo Alto,
Cal, a distance of 5000 miles. No
other such record has been made by
anyone who has delved in this science
and Mrs. Johnston's record is attract
ing notice of the specialists in every
country
A Des Moines paper has the follow
ing regarding the receiving OF the
messages by Mrs. Johnston:
Her record was first established
eight months ago but it was not until
last night when local news circles
were asked by telegraph from San
Francisco to explain the peculiar
thought transference which had come
to the notice of students at the Leland
Stanford, Jr., university, that it was
| known in Des Moines. Mrs. john
/ ston's success has created an intense
interest among students of psychology
at Leland Stanford and her expert
mentS were so marvellous in results
as to be declared past the limits OF
general understanding.
The detailed account of Mrs. John
stons experiments reads like myth
. yet is borne out by scientists as mark
ing an era in the science of psychol
ogy. When seen last night she eX
planned that she had approached hel
: theme from the standpoint of expert
!. ment as we'll as from theory.
: But many curious and interesting
things about mans nature and his re
lation to facts and evidence have come
:. about" she said. 81 had not though
of telepathy as a thing to be cultivated
a or aimed at, in the beginning; but
l have had it so thrust upon me that
cannot longer escape the responsibilit.
of attention to it.
X Eyes, am, so far as l know. maxim.
new worlds record. William 7
q Stead, editor of the Review of Review
s of London, has made his own exper
ments; or properly speaking, has bee
an independent experimenter, as l an
He has careful annexation of what al
reliable efforts have come to him |
is this line and makes much of 70
d miles.
Conditions Vary.
~ eyes, France has made great hea
way in this particular line. l believe
:. an ethnic gift with the Gauls. TIL
hour, the weather, food dress, color
in room, height Of location-all NAL
a great difference with the success
an undertaking, and it may surpris
n. you when I say that the chief of hell
is diet"
&C Mrs. Martha Burton Johnston is {
- Iowan by birth, of the well know
Of Springer family, of which Congress
- man Springer of Illinois, the la
Reuben Springer of Cincinnati, al
Hon. John W.Springer of Colorado a
members. Through her mother, she
&C second cousin to the wife of the la
Vice President Thomas w. Hendricl
f. A few years ago, Mrs. Johnston bel
II so situated as to have to enter t
OF bread winning field, took up journals
nj and became the proprietor and edit
ed of daily newspaper at Ottumwa, t
vn- Democrat which she subsequent
TT sold to S. A.,Brewster.
air Shortly afterward she spent til
is at the University of Chicago, whe
vo- under Professor Frederick Starr, S
pursued the study of ethnology, and
it's relation to psychology. Since tt
time, especially for the past thu