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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-09

by, they built themselves a magnif-
cent, costly home, beautified the place,
building roads, streets, putting up
dwellings, college and convention
hall, etc, until they had an invest
ment of nearly a million. All of this
money was gained in the last ten or
twelve years from patients" who
received absent treatment" Mrs.
Wilmans made the thought connec-
ton and her patients paid for it.
Very Simple Method.
Her mode of business was very sim.
pie. She first advertised in newSpa-
pers and magazines in localities far
from Florida as to her ability to cure
all disease. such as consumption
heart disease and all the other ills, in.
Guiding blindness, deafness, etc. Not
only this. but even poverty could be
eradicated. A person writing for in.
formation would be told her terms
of treatment-from SO to So a week
and S. to $40 a month. Following
the first payment they received a
long printed circular with minute
directions.
Mrs. Wilmans, it seems, had an
ideal BRAIN" and she was so full OF
vigorous life and health that the
overflow from her was sufficient to
cure all that simply believed in her
Patients were directed, in order to
make a union of thought" to HE
! themselves to some quiet spot at a
designated time, divest their mind oi
all cares in the world and center
their thoughts upon Mrs. Wilmans at
her home in SeabreeZe.
1t was not even necessary that they
should know her. All they had to dc
was to try to think that she was send
ing out powerful waves of helpfulness
"a sort Of wireless telegraphy OF
health, so to speak-which would Al
their veins and make them new per
sons.
There were thousands of pa
tients," and among some of them
naturally, the imagination must have
run riot, for Mrs Wilmans produced
a great many testimonials of some Of
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-09

A special dispatch from Gainesville
to the Jacksonville Times-Union
says:
There is significance surrounding
the meeting of certain prominent
Florita Republicans at the Windsor
hotel in Jacksonville on Monday
which means a great deal, because it
means the giving out Of some fat POI
litical jobs which are now held in the
palm of the hand of the great Florida
Republican organization. At that
meeting, among others, were leaders
of the Republican party in Florida
leaders who have guided the party
with sturdy and safe hand. and
kept the prestige of Republicanism
up to high standard. Among these
were Hon. Henry S. Chubb of this
city, receiver of the United States
land Office, and chairman of the state
central Republican executive commit.
tee, power in the party, whose in
| f1uence bends a straw; Hon. ]. n.
Coombs, of Apalachicola, member OF
| the national Republican committee,
and it is said Hon. Matt B. MacFar-
lane, of Tampa, collector of customs
for that port. a prominent Republican,
whom it is said stands higher" in
the party in Florida than his high
silk hat in tie last gubernatorial
campaign.
Well, summing this I'D, il is said
there was q caucus as to the appoint
ments to various vacancies in the
United States land Office, caused by
the death OF Register Walter G.
Robinson few weeks ago. While
nothing authentic can be stated. il IL
said of good authority that Col Chubb
has been so efficient in the dis
charge of his obligations with the
powers that be-" that the party
thought it wise and just to advance
him notch or two, and that he Will
receive the appointment of register,
vice Hon. W. G. Robinson. deceased.
Those people who are in d position
to know state that Shields Warren. OF
Apalachicola, will succeed Col. Chubb
as receiver. Mr.. Warren is probably
the youngest republican of prominence
in Florida, being scarcely thirty years
OF age. He has been In Apalachicola
connected in a prominent way with
the business and commercial inter,
ests of that city. for several years.
and is regarded as not only one OF
the most efficient business men but
one of the most affable and smooth
est politicians on record for his age
He is recommended by competent and
well informed authority as a mOsc
efficient man. and is very popul " IN
his home town, being a lieutenant in
the Florida state troops, and an an
round good and useful citizen.
1t is said that both gentlemen have
the unanimous Endorsement of the
Republican organization in Florida.
and that the appointment is sure ~
follow in n day or two.
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the most remarkable cures that the
world has known.
Money came pouring in. One entry
in Mrs. Wilmans' books showed that
in 1897 the amounts jumped from ar
average of 5000 a month to more than
$4,000, which she quantity noted al
the time, This is pretty good bust
ness"
Her Handsome Home.
She built a magnificent home al
Seabreeze for herself and family, and
made many other improvements, cost
ing thousands of dollars. In her bus
mess she had a large number OF
clerks, and all were kept replying to
patients" letters.
The postoffice authorities in the
early part of 1901 took cogniZance OF
her work, and w. 4. Cochran, CHIEF
inspector at Washington, secured ar
abundance of data regarding heI
claims. Paul E. Williams, inspector
in charge. of Chattanooga, was direct
ed to take ND the matter Fred ID
Peer, postal inspector, then took
charge, and in a short time. by ylgor
Gus work he secured a wonderful lot
of evidence showing the alleged fraud
ulent character of her work.
She Is Arrested.
A report was made, and on August
"a, 1901, Mrs. Wjlmans was arrested as
also were her husband. Col. c. c. Post
and her son-in-law, Charles F. Berg
man. They were taken to Jackson
vile and arranged before the United
States commissioner, who held them
in $4,000 bail each for trial at the De
cember term. The government issued
a fraud order on September 80. o.
the same year, stopping all mail tC
Helen Wilmans.
Mrs. Wilmans declared that the gov
eminent was prosecuting her, and she
sent forth an appeal through hel
newspaper, Freedom, for aid from the
faithful. She had powerful influence
to work for her, as at the hearing al
Washington over the fraud order Con
gresham Davis and Senator Mallory
as well as Gov. Jennings, of Florida
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were present, but the postoffice au-
thorities and the fraud order was
made permanent.
The government secured possession
of almost all of Mrs. Wilmans' pri-
vate correspondence, books, ETC., pre-
pared to reveal one of the biggest
and most prolific frauds in the United
States. The government did not at
tack the Mental Science" as a
science, but worked to prove that
Helen Wilmans's one aim was to Sc
cure money, and that the imagination
of her patients" twas the only thing
that might give them relief from the
thousand and one ills that they asked
her to cure.
$1,000 a Month.
The letters and information derived
outside showed that the business had
been most profitable, especially for
! the four years just previous to her
arrest, the receipts having been from
$1,000 to $4,000 ii month, and some
times more.
Letters were received from all parts
of the United States, Canada, British
Columbia, England, South Africa,
Australia, Ireland, Germany and
France. Almost every part of the
world paid tribute to her great ideal
brain" One man of sixty wanted a
new set of teeth. An old maid want
ed a new head of hair. A man in
northern New York wrote that one leg
was shorter than the other, and he
paid S12 for Helen Wilmans' help to
make the short leg grow equal in
length to the other.
The government secured important
evidence against Mrs. Wilmans
through Edward G. Overlook, Gin
cinnati lawyer, who wrote to be cured
of consumption. She agreed to give
him thought connection" at certain
hours of the day, and government of.
| ficers and other witnesses. stationed
at Seabreeze at the same time found
that when she should have been Civ.
ing this particular case treatment she
was away fishing or entertaining
friends. Many other similar cases
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walk, according to Mrs. Wilmans, but
she baffled even death. In her book,
The Conquest of Death" she de-
clares that her powers are superior
to the grim old reaper" and that
thousands who have thought con-
nection" with her and have the right
faith can live forever.
At Beautiful Seabreeze.
Seabreeze is a beautiful little town
on a peninsula between the Atlantic
ocean and the Halifax river, ITO miles
south of Jacksonville. The strip of
land is a half mile in width and
thirty miles in length, from north to
south.
About it is glamour of the olden
times-the historic deeds of the fana-
tic, cruel Spaniards; the colonizing
of homesick Huguenots and their In
dian allies, and the battle which, re-
sulting in the defeat of the Spaniards,
brought to light story of romance
and heroism between a French no
bleman and an Indian princess which
, has survived all the stirring events
OF the last four centuries
Mrs. Wilmans-'I am the Power.
as she calls herelf-was first heard
of in Chicago about twenty years
ago. She is now 20 years of age
rather large and fleshy, full of nerv-
Gus energy, with a shrewd face. some.
what talkative, but always able 10
guard her lips from giving away Sc
crets.
In 1856 she married DR.. J. C. Baker
in California, but later on was di.
vorced Years later, she married
Col. c. c. Post, then engaged in jour
nalism in Chicago. About 1889 or
1890, they left Chicago and travelled
south, settling in different parts OF
Georgia, where Mrs. Post began her
mental science" In 1898 they were
in Atlanta, doing large business, but
strange to say, not soliciting any
local business, all patients being at
tended to by the absent treatment.
Atlanta becoming unfavOrable, they
moved to Florida, purchasing large
tract of land. As the years rolled
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JOY that you have never known.
When you write ME please ad.
dress your letters to Freedom, an6
make out all money orders to same.
Your friend.
HELEN WILMANS, per j."
Dear Friend:-Do not despise the
day of small things Any little im4
provement means great deal re
you will only keep your thoughts CON
Joined to mine. and receive daily the
supply of vitality that send you fresh
from the Fountain of Infinite Life,
you will recover Your sight. Never
be discouraged because your improve.
ment is not more rapid. Your friend.
HELEN WILMANS, per j."
Dear Friend:-There is no doubt
that my silent spoken words OF truth
is doing its work. The conditions
are being overcome. as shown in the
influx of the light I'm the eyes When
light breaks into your consciousness
you will come clear and bright in pro-
portion to belief and self The mind
is master over conditions. Your
friend,
HELEN WILMANS. per J."
Some Other Letters.
Dear Friend:-The sleepy, drowsy
feeling is all right Your system IL
getting a rest from it that will do
you good The change in your con
ditiOn has been gradual and slow. for
ii takes time for the new to set aside
the old. and build itself structurally
into your body My thought win
sustain you and impaTt TO you feel
ing of upliftment-a willingness 70
wait foF the precious Principle Of Life
to clothe you in garments OF perfect
health and restore your sight to you.
My strong determined healrhfM, hope.
full and life-giving thought will re-
awaken your hopes and courage and
rekindle your faith and desires. Start
the wheel of organization forward and
reestablish and restore every func.
Continued on Fifteenth PageA
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Young. city; Annie s. Henrickson,
city; Oscar B. Henrickson, city; Bern
hardenia Henrickson, city; Mildred
Chesser, city; Mary Louise Gabel,
city; Mary Stokes, city; Barbara
Boardman, city; Dennis Egan, Nash
vile, Tenn; Minnie Vermillion, city;
Clara Geri, city; Theo. Hernandez,
city; Mamie Barbara, city; Adelaide
Yniestra, city; Louis WithOvski, city;
Ethel Gilmore, city: Roy Courtney,
city; Clara Stokes. city; Carrie Ynies-
ira, city; Ethel Wilkinson, city; Ora
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| Two little girls are the victors this
g't and the puzzle dollar" which
3: mGe coveted than any other dollar
- coined, goes to Miss Mabel
| lin. number 724 East Chase street.
p box of Huyler's candy will go out
own. to Miss Owelia Rosasco, Pine
. Fla.
vas an evident fact that the puz-
army changed in force last week,
hat fine old dollar for Christmas,
il is too bad that every one of
i HuZzlers could not have won it, but
it been divided up in very tiny
IS it would hardly have gone
und-to say nothing of the box of
|ady which perhaps might have af
ded a taste apiece to the big ar
who carried all before it. But
ever mind there are three more trials
fore Christmas.
livery week there are several new
cruits to the puzzle army, and if
av keep coming, it will surely be
army of magnificent proportions.
There were very few incorrect an
|Tors and il seems that each week
b number of mistakes in the coG-
|0as decrease. This goes to prove
bat the old saying, practice makes
|-tect," is true one, but there are
many children who admire "old
|ayngs," for they are usually about
|lIgs which a child hates most to
|il-iOr instance, that little children
! mus he seen and not heard" and
"spIe the rod and spoil the child
| VIII. Cler things equally as offensive.
The Duzzle editor thinks that little
clil-on have a right to be heard occa-
|,'naauv. as well as their elders, and
ts. old King Solomon, although he
vas very wise, should not have adj
sed such a frequent use of the rod,
ghan often it is the big people who
F. it instead of the little ones.
The Correct Answers.
No London
so. Thames.
No Westminster Abbey.
No Liverpool.
10. sheffield.
No. Dover.
40. Oxford.
No Wales.
Correct Answers Received.
Correct answers were received from
10 following girls and boys: Mabel
|Unlir. l23 Il. Chase street, Owelia
oSasco, PinewoOd, Fla; Charlie Col
= city; b. Danheisser, city: Annie
orer Carrabelle. Fla; Florida Wal
lco. city. Bessie Condor, city; Meyer
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Suggs, city; Lillian Suggs, city; Elsie
Burnes, city; Elizabeth Aiken, city;
Tom Mooney, city; Irwin Morgan,
city; Margaret Mary Pons, city; Ar
thur Johnson, city; Vivian Mary Pons,
city; Manuel Johnson, city; VIM. John
son, city; Lettie Martin, city; Ethel
Eyers, city; Louisa Schiller, city:
Gladys Bell, city; Elmire Bell, city;
Alice P. Prichard, city; Jack Shuttle
worth, Jr., city; Malsome R. Fell,
Continued on Sixteenth Paqe)
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don Solomon, Mariana, Fla; Francis
Mary Heating, Montgomery, Ala. !;
Eula May Stuckey, city; Lilly e. De-
oBnford, city; Max. ]. Heinberg, Jr.,
city; Jack Salvant Richie, city; Clar-
ence Stokes, city; Kathleen Stokes,
city; John Olsen, city; Harvey Bay
liss, city; Elizabeth Davis, city; Susie
NJ. Davis, Oak Field, Fla; Bessie Hen
son, city; Nellie Glackmeyer, city;
Carey Stewart, Milton, Fla; Sammie
Stewart, Milton, Fla; Ruth E. Gentry,
Milton, Fla; C. ]. Heinberg, city; Her.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-09

bard Foreman, city; Ed Swaine, city;
Lucy Swaine, city; Jas. S. Riera, city;
Clinton Kelley, Big Bayou; Cornelia
SchmitZ, city; Frank Bond, city; Joe
Gray, Jr., Bagdad, Fla: Geo. w. Stone,
city; Prudence Harrell, city; George
Lamar, Quincy, Fla; Angela Scarritt,
Big Bayou; Lillian Kelley, Big Bayou;
Helen Stokes, city; Garrett Allen
Marker, Indianapolis, Ind; Nellie
Wood, city; Mary Lou Chisolm, city;
Kathleen McKinnon, McKinnonville,
Fla; Bertha Gagnet, city; w. Fife
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The following is a brief history of
% case of the United States VS.. Hell
Wilmans Post, and a short story
her remarkable life:
Hrs. Helen Wilmans. who is the
| 'fp of Col. c. c. Post. and lives at
SahreeZe, Fla, and according to con-
Ita.ions of the pOstOtiice department.
| vas the head of one of the most
l3clutic frauds ever operated in
Em2riCa; a scheme which had the
| eajire world for its field, and had
brought more than a million dollars
10 h"r-an ever increasing golden
lSream from those afflicted in mind
rem body. This money has made a
Sl0' In Florida's wilderness bloom like
Wi kept garden and created a
loEu hat is one of the prettiest in
me Whole state.
Hrs Wilmans was the high prizes
FSS Of the Mental Scientists in this
country, whose members include many
earnest minded persons who are I'm.
N.HSh'y seeking the light of truth
aAI who probably regarded her as a
conan of rare and unusual power.
',n there are those, it is said, who
l'- noen healed through her gifts
.-' were willing to give testimony
a h'r favor. but the cold fact was
l' the government officials stopped
Y mail on a fraud order, and she,
husband and her brother-in-law
e indicted. first in 1901.
81. IS a remarkable woman in
,. ,a. ways. and so great was the
Lu'u''i power that she could once
" @.on, that no less a person than the
ITo n, of the state appeared at
=. aNIingJon when the case against
D. .'a preliminary hearing.
~, -" The pOstofIice officials worked
-. 'ai'lngiy and intelIigently and
10 ISN'T among other things, evidence
s"2" mat, judging from her claims,
r. ndd not only found perpetual
'u' also the healing we'll that
s .'-S new life to the sick and dis.
' ,hiy the blind would be made to
"' deaf hear and the cripple
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ham White, city; Laura England, city;
Beatrice Geri, city; Esperidion Bor-
ras, city; Robert Daniels, city; Otto
Reinhardt, city; Shielagh O'Donnovan,
city; Lenora Faggioni, city; Mamie
Colley, city; Nena Souder, Delta, Fla;
Marjorie Mclean, city; Lizzie Jones,
city; Clinton Mcconnell, city; Ethel
Bayliss, city; John Christie, city; Ka-
tie M. Hartman, city; Katie Afford.
city; Norman Bazzell, city; Alberta
Krowl, city; Monroe Campbell, Jr.,
city; Willie NJ. Macarthur, city; Lid
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-09
IRNY HOT liter
DOLLAR FOR
CHRISTMAS
Nany Answers to Puzzles
Received and Nearly All
Were Correct.

HE JOURNALS PUZZLE DOL
LAR THIS WEEK AWARDED TO
HISS MABEL RICHIE, 724 EAST
C5ESE STREET-BOX OF CANDY
GOES TO oWELIA RosAsco, OF
PINEWooD.
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Distribution
Of OFFICES
Florida Republicans Meet
and Agree Upon Certain
Appointments.

BELIEVED THAT SHIELDS WAR
Rem, OF APALAcHlcoLA, WILL
BE SUCCESSOR TO HON. w. q.
ROBINSON IN THE LAND OFFICE
AT GAtNESViLLE-oTHER MAT.
TIERS CONSIDERED.
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Give Sk
Amw@kD awnseo GmaB Hysc
Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-29
Officers Make First Arrest Un- der New City Ordi-
 nance.
FAILED OUT OF JAIL
 BY WOMAN PR0vIDER,
Paul Howard Arrested on the Charge of Living by Funds Given Him by Woman of Half World.

~ Paul Howard was arrested yester day morning by Officer Jay Wilmoth, charged with being a vagrant under the new city ordinance, covering this species of genus homo. Howard was placed in jail. but as soon as word reached the tenderloin, Myrtle Tom kins. the woman who, 1t is reported, wired him the money on which to come to Bisbee, sent $50, the amount named as bail by Judge Murphy, to that official, in order that Howard might have his freedom until the day set for his, trial.
 The arrest of Howard is the first of several planned by the officers, and was made under the latest city ordi- nance which is not yet two weeks 8 law
 The testimony against Howard is said by the officers to be complete, and chain of evidence has been wound about the man by which it is expected he will receive the maximum penalty for his crime.
 It is also reported that in order to cone to Bisbee, Howard was wired $50 by this same woman. Howard was at that time in Las Vegas, N NJ
 There is a strong feeling in official circles against this type of men whn are living by the money furnished them by unfortunate women, and il was in order that the practice might be put to an end in Bisbee that tht new ordinance was framed. Other l arrests, it is said, will follow unles; several weil-known tenderloin hang ers-on leave the city or go to worl at honest employment.
 It has been the custom of severa of the habitues of the redlight dis ! trict to come down town on the oe casion of theater performances and baseball games, aud with their men, faunt their shame in the face of re spectable people, to the disgust an' humiliation of the latter. This. tho | officers say, has got to stop also.
 t is expected that in the Howard | case it will be proved that on thre | different occasions this same woman wired Howard money with which t' keep him before he came to Bisbee I An endeavor will be made to impose
 the maximum fine of $500 and 300 day
 in jail upon Howard if he is foun ] guilty of the charge against him.
 He will appear for trial before Jus
 tice, of the Peace Murphy on, Thurs day at pm.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-29
AN IMPORTANT WITNESS.

In the examination conducted by members of the interstate commerce commission held at Cleveland, Ohio, last week, into the methods resorted to by the Standard Oil Company in putting independent oil companies out of competition, very important wit ness was called who told a most in teresting story. This witness was Geo. K. Lane, of Mansfield, Ohio. He told the commission that his duties while he was in the service of the oil trust was to put the independent concerns out of business. This he did in a doz- en CT more northern Ohio towns. His instructions were Q use every means fair or foul, to force the independents to quit" My instructions" he said were to kill them. and was told that if could not do the job some one else would be sent to take my place"
 This man Lane has simply told in detail what everybody has known to be a fact about the methods of the trust in forcing dealers in the various trust articles out es business and gir. ing undisputed and complete monopo iy to the big companies. s
 The meat trust in the middle West pursued the same tactics and drove hundreds of prosperous butchers out of the meat businesss and intimidated cattle raisers to such an extent that they did not dare to supply an indepen dent dealer under the pains of not being able to dispose of a hoof oi stock to the trust.
 But 1t seems that MT. Lane, the man chosen as the executioner of the in. dependent oil dealers encountered one community where he could devise no method sufficiently severe to put one of the independents out of busi ness. That was at Youngstown. where a man named William H. vahey was
Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-29

It is plain that the republican ma. chine in New Mexico intends to again nominate w H. Andrews as the can. didate for delegate to Congress from that territory this fall This is in line with the policy of the republican machine throughout the country; ii is the policy of standing pat" regard less of past records or consequences Andrews has been exposed in man! transactions that should cause his DO litieal retirement While there are many republicans in New Mexico who may be expected to balk at the nom nation of Andrews, the large ignorant republican vote in that territory may be sufficient to carry him through, re gardiess of his record. However, witt Andrews as the candidate, the demo crats should leave no stone unturneC in this years campaign, and with z good candidate should be able to vii victory by vigorous and aggressive campaigning.