Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-01
PROPHECIES OF 1917.
Aduced From The Pathagorean Code
Fine Year for Farmers


New England will be greatly favored by
the continued wave of prosperity. Mills
and factories on full time. A fine year
for farmers Deep SHOWS in January an0
February index an excellent maple sugar
season. The season will be rather late
Little rainfall Is indexed for the year,
farmers should SOW and plant along the
lowlands. Drouth will effect the West
and South. Crops should be put in early,
as late summer will be hot and dry. Sud-
den, violent storms are indexed, with
high winds. Heavy storms are shown for
the last half Of January. the third week
In February and the first half Of March.
Shipping and transportation will suffer
February, April and July are the dark
months on the year. intense magnetic
bands encircle the earth agitations,
strikes. riots, crime, and epidemics likely
to appear. The Ides of March are dark
for America.
a. A Boom in Land
The railroad systems of our country
VIII show enormous earnings Transpor-
tation and traffic will over-tax all facili-
ties. Look for important changes in man.
agement. Steel and iron mills will have
year of tremendous business. Labor
unrest will be absorbed by high wages.
All manufacturing interest will take on
ne& life. Prosperity that has been in
heaps, will spread out into numerous
channels. Commodities and merchandise
will be in demand at high prices. The
automobile industry will reap harvest
Cotton and wooden mills will find broad
ening market. The cotton crop will be
favored. The West will have a great
yield of corn. An abundant fruit season
is indsXed. There will be boom in lano
farmssand general real estate.
Ametfos to Declare War and Astound
World
Congress will pass q great war budget
for preparedness. The declara ton Of war
received by the people with the enthusi-
asm Of a holiday festivity. The resilient
and elastic temperament of America Is
in the world. The swift
ness and drectness of our national prep
aration and action will astound the ma
tons. Young blood and new methods will
predominant.
Intense Heat Next Summer
Health and recreation resorts in this
country will have a long and prosperous
season. Extended periods of intense heat
will make mountain and seashore resorts
The great abundance of money
will make the season gay with festivities.
Yachting, polo, racing and baseball will
have record breaking seasons. Sports
and games everywhere will win abound
ing enthusiasm.
Church Creeds to be Swept Aside
Great religious activity will abound.
Churches will reorganize, will unite and
cast aside old methods of work. War
agitation and preparation will augment
fervor. Greed barriers will dis
appear. unity, harmony, cooperation will
abound. Human suffering will bring
forth a deeper human sympathy. Relig-
ious bodies will work in new directions
institutions will be greatly
favored. A new national interest will de-
velop in schools and colleges. Art. educa-
ton nd1training will take on new re
lation to Service and society.
Wonderful Inventions to Appear
Wonderful inventions will appear. cleo
trical science will go forward by leaps
and bounds. The fields of research will
become alive with interest. Science will
bring forth discoveries and possibilities
that shall minister to the great needs of
mankind The medical world will Crap
Pile anew with insidious epidemics. Com
merce will attract profound attention and
arouse new national interest. World
events will centre around our nation and
the great golden river of Americas
wealth will broaden and deepen. Gigan-
tic industries will stagger the world with
the figures of their transactions.
U. S. ito Finance Reconstruction Of
World !.
The era Of Americas material glory is
in the ascendant, 'the fairness Of the
earth" Unparalleled philanthropies will
be poured out. Institutions of. human
betterrent will be founded: America will
finance the reconstruction Of the world.
Great Victories for Entente Allies
The army and navy of England, the
army of France and the forces of Italy
will achieve brilliant and decisive VIC
tories Destructive earthquakes are In
dexed in the first and third cycle of the
wear for Japan. Italy and America. Sea
disasters will sadden Germany, England
and America.
[The Author prophesied the worlds war
in 1872 and since has had as important
fulfillments of these prophesies. In his
prophecies of 1916 was the death of the
Emperor of Austria, the crisis of Greece.
the continued revolutions in Mexico. the
activity of American troops. the epidemic
of infantile paralysis. the great crors Of
wheat and corn. the great advance of coz
ton and coal, the change in England's
cabinet. the success of the armies OF
France and Italy. the International crisis
of prosperity Il
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