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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-11-10

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others in the world beyond the grave.
Christ, of course, arose from the dead
and was seen by and talked with His
disciples Christ, of course, had healed
the dying and had brought back the dead
to- life. This was not to be wondered at.
because Christ Himself had divine powers.
But the most significant and hopeful
thing, as Mrs. Robbins re-read her Bible,
was the instance OF Elisha, who raised
from the dead the Shunammite's son. Now
Elisha was not divine parsonage. He was
a holy man, but perhaps no more sanity
than some of the ministers of the Gospel
or spiritualistic mediums to-day.
While 1t might not be expected that a
minister or spiritualistic medium could
perform the miracles which Christ did in
bringing back to life Lazarus and Jairus's
daughter and accomplishing his own resur
rection, yet why should not modern holy
men and holy women achieve as much as
did Elisha OF old?
Over and over again Mrs. Robbins read
and read and re-read the Old Testament
narrative of how Elisha brought back to
life the widows son. In ii. Kings, chapter
w., she found this story, which imbedded
itself in her memory:
80 And when Elisha was come into the
house, behold, the child was dead, and
laid upon his bed.
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the mother was instantly eager for details.
What did the baby look like?
How was 1t treated?
Did It want its mother? ..
The medium was so, circumstantial in
answering these questions that it was easy
for Mrs. Robbins to believe her assurance
that she, too, might communicate with the
guardians of the infant spirit, and from
that time on she began to recover.
The young mother put herself completely
under the mediums influence, insisting
that the latter give up her house and make
her home at the Robbins residence The
medium accepted the invitation with en-
thusiasm and the two women were in sup
posed communication with the dead in al
most every hour of the day.
The young husband made no objection to
the constant seances Any power, genuine
or assumed, that could restore his wife to
health and happiness he thought, was not
for him to question. And as time went on
and his wifes condition continued to i'm
prove he even professed to have been con-
verted to HIS wife's new opinions and
joined the two women at their seances.
The faith OF both was strengthened by
the visit of Sir oliver Lodge to this coun-
try early in 1920. and at the instance of
the medium Mr. and Mrs. Robbins visited
Chicago to hear tho celebrated scientist
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@XkCTLY one year after the death OF
r. Mrs. Ada Robbins's baby daughter
- a luminous figure appeared at mid
night at the bereaved mothers bedside
with a child in its arms and laid 1t at her
breast.
The new baby was of the same physical
appearance as the one Mrs. Robbins had
lost. 1t was also a girl. 1t had slight
defect of the tongue, corresponding to
similar affliction Of the babe that had died.
This strange spectral visitation took place
as the clock was striking twelve-the hour
of the first baby's death year before.
So much of the story of Mrs Robbins's
spirit baby" is, apparently, unquestioned
fact. And yet. despite her former faith
that her child would be restored to her In
exactly the manner that has been told and
her belief for months afterward that the
spirit baby was her own dead little one
brought back from the grave, she now
knows she was victimized by those weird
happenings which took place on that dark
night last June.
Newspapers all over the world printed
Mrs Robbins's claim when her friends and
neighbors in the little town of Dysart,
Iowa. began to take sides in the matter.
Dysart was a city divided against itself
for long time, There were many who
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be brought back to life from the grave?"
OverJoyed, she heard the mediums an
swer. coming from the death-like rigidity
Of the trance: "
BE of strong faith. Everything is pos
sible Nothing is impossible"
Before long Mrs. Robbins preached the
subject to Mrs. Wheeler, and discovered,
to her surprise, that the medium already
knew what was passing through her mind
and considered 1t quite possible. She re-
minded the young mother Of how Christ
had empowered His disciples to go about
healing the sick and raising the dead. and
assumed the attitude that anyone could
attain the same power through faith.
"The trouble with people nowadays" the
spiritualist said, "is that they have no
faith"
But my baby has been buried for
months" cried the mother.
The medium only cited her protest as a
demonstration of her lack of faith.
Many things were told the eager mother
of the accomplishments OF mediums and
spirit photographs" were shown her
At the direction OF her adviser Mrs. Rob-
bins spent weeks in fasting and PRAYER,
living life of austere piety and sacrifice.
Her obedience to the medium was implicit
and was rewarded only by the assurance
OF Mrs. Wheeler after each trance that the
guardian spirits of her child were pleased
with her devotion and increasing belief in
the impossible.
After weeks of these extreme methods
OF preparing herself for the test Mrs. Rob
bins begged the medium to see II the re-
incarnation OF her baby could not be
brought about soon. II was then nearing
the anniversary Of the child's birthday and
death.
After suitable manifestations of commu-
nication with the beyond, Mrs. Wheeler
said she had asked the guardian spirits OF
the baby all about 1t and would receive an
answer the following day.
The next day the young mothers faith
reached its highest pitch as the medium
prepared herself for the seance and
emerged from the trance with the news
that the spirits had promised to materialize
the spirit Of the dead baby and return Il
to her arms. But how and when the ma
FERTILIZATION was to be effected the medium
did not profess to know.
Mrs. Wheeler decided to 10 to Chicago
Communications were better there she
said, because of the atmosphere created in
the studio OF another medium whom she
had known for a long time. SO while the
mother remained on pins and needles. not
daring to tell her husband what she be.
lieved would take place, Mrs. Wheeler re-
NAMED In Chicago and wrote daily, telling
of the progress she was making there.
She said she was spending all Of her
time in a trance.
MY spirit has been suspended for six
Continued on Merit Pd0c)
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believed Mrs Robbins's daughter had been
raised from the dead. Others thought her
grief over the death of the spirit child's"
predecessor had driven the young mother
insane. Neither group was right, as 1t
finally turned out
All of Dysart knew Ada and her husband,
William Howard Robbins, young and
well-to-do farmer of the town. They
seemed to be very happy They had a
manly little boy, Just three years old at
the time. All of them knew-for Mrs. Rob
bins had told them-how anxious she was
10 have a little girl as playmate and
companion for her son, and how bitter had
been her disappointment when the tiny
rev baby had died few hours after 1t
was born.
Mrs Robbins's condition was still so del
icate that the sad news was kept from her
until she had recovered. All through her
convalescence she had cried for her baby.
The pathetic white casket had been laid
In the ground weeks before, and her SYM
pathetic husband and neighbors racked
their brains for new excuses to tell her TO
explain the baby's continued absence.
During all of that time she thought 1t was
in a nearby hospital, awaiting her recovery,
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"Chost Photograph =.
Which, / It Was Pre-
tended, Had Been
Taken in q Cemetery
in Washington.

lecture on life after
death. Whatever
doubts they may
have had concern
ing communication
with the dead dis
appeared as Sir
Oliver recited his
alleged eonversa-
lions with the
spirit of his hero
son.
Mrs. Robbins was
an intensely relig-
ious young woman,
and as she read
over again certain
chapters in both
the Old and tho
N e W Testament
they took on a new
meaning.
Here In the Holy
Scriptures ere
a b u n d a n { refer
ences to the raising
OF the dead. Again
and again those on
earth were said to
be In communica-
ton with the Heav.
emily Father, and
the a n Is and
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ana nie eyes upon MS eyes,
and his hands upon his
hands; and he stretched him
self upon the child, end the
flesh Of the child waxed
warm.
IS. Then he returned, and
walked in the house to and
fro; and went mp, and
stretched himself upon him;
and the child sneesed seven
times. and the child opened
his eyes.
SO. And he called Gehazi,
and said. call this Shunam.
mite. So he called her. And
when she was come in unto
him. he said. Take up thy
son.
81. Then she went in. and
fell at his feet, and bowed
herself to the ground. and
took up her son, and went
out.
With these thoughts run
ming through her mind Mrs.
Robbins found herself hop
ing for something 80 IN
known in modern times that
she was afraid to communi-
cate her thoughts to Mrs.
Wheeler. She sought out an
other medium for counsel.
Was there, she pleaded.
any real reason why her own
dead little one might not be
brought back to life just as
the widows son was brought
back by Elisha of old!
The idea So possessed her
that Mrs. Robbins went to the
seance Of the other medium
and scrawled on a piece of
paper the question that
would not let her rest. II
was:
Il want my baby. Can she
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When at last Mr.. Robbins tenderly

When at last Mr. Robbins tenderly
broke the news to his wife she had an i'm
mediate relapse and for weeks she lowered
between life and death. All efforts to renew
her interest in what was going on seemed
TO fail. Physicians shook their heads and
the husband became frantic as he watched
her slowly fade away before his eyes. The
entire neighborhood tried to awaken her
desire to live-and failed.
Just as the last hope for her life began
TO fade James Wheeler hired hand on the
Robbins farm, came to the distracted hus-
band and drew him to one side. =
This is just suggestion" he said, but
my wife is a spritualist. She can do won
derful things as a medium II you don't
mind, I'll send for her.
Robbins Jumped at the offer, not know.
ing exactly what spiritualist could do.
He was desperate enough to seize at any
straw and Mrs. Wheeler was Immediately
summoned
The doctors had worked hard to restore
the unfortunate mothers health with medi-
cines and professional care, but Mrs. Rob-
bins was not interested in her health. Her
mind dwelt constantly on her loss. So
when the medium told her that she had
seen her baby every day since its death
she famed the spark that all the science
In the world could not coax into flame, and
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Her Extraordinary
Luminous 1Spook"
Her Trembling Arms

49, He went IN, therefore. and shut the
door upon them twain. and prayed unto
the Lord.
81. And he went up. and lay upon the.
child, and put his meath upon his mouth
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-07-08

have been widely famous il It we're
not for the fatal defect OF being SO
very perishable in rs natural STATE
Yey its SO easy to give it the quail
ity of being only resistant to decay
merely by swea ing the water ous OF
IT slowly that it seems strange that
Southern farmers do not seize eager
" upcn Yhis means of so vastly I'M
nroying the Euber. Wherever introduc-
ed the demand grows rapidly for the
cured potato.
It is so easily grown, the yield per
acre is so great, that at $3.50 par
rel. or at anything near that figure
It should be one of the most profitable
Of Southern crops Il seems to do
particularly well in the light sandy
soils which prevail in most OF the
coastal plains of the Atlantic and the
Gulf, but apparently will grow in any
soil.
There is a sweet potato grown in
che North buE it does not compare
with the sirupy product of the South.
The juices of the latter are the stored
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-07-08
If BACKACHY OR
KIDNEYS BOTHER
Eat less meat and take glass oil
Salts to flush out Kinney
Drink plenty water.

Uric acid in meat excites the kidneys,
they become overworked; get sluggish.
ache, and feel like Jumps of lead. The
urine becomes cloudy; the bladder is irri-
tated, and you may be obliged to seek re-
lief two or three times during the night
When the kidneys clog you must help
them flush off the body's 'urinous waste
or you'll be a real sick person shortly.
At first you feel a dull misery in the kid
ney regio., you suffer from backache,
sick headache, dizziness, stomach gets
sour, tongue coated and you feel rheu-
matte twinges when the weather is bad.
Eat less meat, drink lots of water;
also get from any pharmacist four ounces
of Jad Salts; take tablespoonful
in glass of water before breakfast
for few GSys and your kidneys will
then act fine This famous saltsis made
from the acid of grapes and lemon juice,
combined with iithia, and has been used
for generations to clean clogged kidneys
and stimulate them to normal activity,
also to neutralize the acids in urine, SO
it no longer is a source of irritation,
thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot in
jure; makes delightful .effervescent
lithia-water drink which everyone should
take now and then to keep the kidneys
clean and active. Druggists here say
they sell lets of Jad Salts to folks who
believe in overcoming kidney trouble
while it is only trouble.
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Start Tomorrow
and Keep It Up
Every Morning
Get In the habit Of drinking .
glass of hot water before
breakfast.

We're not here long, so let's make
our stay agreeable. Let us live well.
eat well, digest well, work well, sleep
well, and look well. what glorious
condition to attain. and yet, how very
easy 1t Is If one will only adopt the
morning inside bath.
Folks who are accustomed to feel
dull and heavy when they arise, split
ting headache, stuffy from a cold. foul
tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach.
can, instead, feel as fresh as q daisy.
by opening the sluices OF the system
each morning and flushing out the
whole OF the internal poisonous stag
nant matter.
Everyone, whether ailing. sick or
WELL, should, each morning. before
breakfast, drink a glass Of real hot
water with teaspoonful Of limestone
phosphate In 1t to wash from the
stomach. liver and bowels the previous
days indigestible waste. sour bile
and poisonous toxins; thus cleansing.
sweetening and purifying the entire
alimentary canal before putting more
food into the stomach. The action Of
hot water and limestone phosphate on
an empty stomach is wonderfully in-
Migrating. It cleans out all the sour
lamentations gases, waste and
acidity and gives one q splendid
appetite for breakfast. While YOU are
enjoying your breakfast the water
and phosphate is quietly extractinc
q large volume OF water from the
blood and getting ready Tor 4,
thorough flushing Of all the inside
organs.
The millions Of people who are
bothered with constipation. bilious
spells. stomach trouble: others who
have sallow skins, blood disorders and
sickiy compilations are urged to get :
euarfer pound Of limestone phosphate
nom the drug store. This win cost
very little but Is sHflcfent to make
anyone = pronounced crank on the
subject Of maide-bathing before break
last.
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mn San Of the plant elaborated in tne
abundant southern sunlight and the
air by the leaves of the plant ana
stored away in the darkness IN che
roots for future uses in propagation
It owes but little to the soil except
for anchorage. Its flavor it owes to
the same sources, to The grasses abb
sorbed front the atmosphere under
the chemical action of the suns rays.
If properly cured there is no reason
why the sweet potato should not be
seen m our markets all the year d
round At present, its season is COM
paratdvely short. Yet me operation of
curing is extremely simple and
cheap and so efficacious that the loss
even on large quantities in storage
is only from less than one per cent
upward, If the potatoes are kept any
length of time
Every Southern community should
have its sweet potato curing house.
American Federation of Labor is ap-
posed to women's right to work, pro-
vided they belong to the unions and
pay the dues so, necessary to insure
big salaries for the offiecrs.-T. U.
ssss
Ex-Congressman William B. Lamar
has stock farm near Monticello and
owns one particularly fine bull--we
say very Fine for t. must be as nearly
a whole column is taken up in the
Monticello News giving his pedigree
and other good qualities.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER /
= AND STOCK GROWER -

"Short Talks. in the Florida Times
Union says that the Monticello News
is urging the farmers of Jefferson
county to plant more pecan groves.
There are already some fine pecan or
chards in Jefferson county, in fact,
some Of the finest pecans grown in
the state are coming from Monticello
and vicinity, but there is good reason
to ask for greater activity along these
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One Dollar Saved Represents Ter
DosAars Earned.

The average man does not save to
exceed ten per cent Of his earnings.
He must spend nine dollars in living
expenses for every dollar saved.
That being the case he can not be
too careful about unnecessary ex-
penses. Very often few cents prop
erly invested, like buying seeds for
his garden, villa save several dollars
outlay later on. 1t is the same in
buying Chamberlain's Collie and Diar-
rhoea Remedy, It costs but few
cents, and Bottle of it often saves
doctors bill Of several dollars.
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oLosmAa GARDEN TRACTOR

Biggest small tractor and smallest
big tractor on the market today. Does
the work of one horse quicker, cheap
err and better; just the thing to work
your crops or orange grove. 1t oper-
ates at half the cost of maintaining a
horse Send for literature or come
and see it work at j 81 Reitz's, local
agent, Weirsdale. Fla % Tyr.
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Cured Sweet Potatoes
Sell Well

Cured Sweet Potatoes
Sell Well
A recent issue of the Florida Times
Union contains the following interest
ing article which deserves to arrest
the attention of the farmers of our
county. 1t says:
That curing of SWEEP potatoes to
prevent spoiIage lis very profitable
certain facts stated in the weekly
news letter of June %, published by
the United States departments of agri-
culture, abundantly prove. For in
stance, the First car of the cured POI
tahoes shipped by curing company
OF farmers in an Arkansas county
from their recently built plant brought
S1.50 a bushel, whereas when first
dug they could have been sold on the
local market for only fifty and sixty
cents a bushel- Less than two per
cent OF the potatoes were found to be
damaged.
In one Louisiana parish LOO bar
rels of kilndried sweet potatoes sold
at $3.50 barrel Another man in
that parish whose potatoes were not
cured was able to get only So a barrel
for them. The man who sold the first
lot at such a good price remarked
after the sale. mo more cotton for
me-" Kiln drying had enabled him to
procure a price $50 per cent over the
local market price. Other instances
are given of the profit derived from
curing sweet potatoes.
The Southern sweet potato is such
a luscious product when kept a few
weeks after digging. or when arti-
ficially cured, that it would long ago
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The Same Everywhere

The Editor of Paisa Akhbar, ma
Give newspaper of Lahore, India, say
q have used ChamberIain's Collie and
Diarrhoea Remedy many times among
my children and servants, for collie
and diarrhoea and always found it
effective
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SUGAR

II pounds of scgar for $1.00 with
a dollars worth of other groceries. for
cash, Saturday and Monday only.
HI. B. WELLINGTON,
Corner Main and South End Streets.
1-21-2t
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lines. The demand for pecans has
gone ahead of the supply and the
prices stay up, regardless Of the splen
did lots of nuts now being gathered
in new groves. The crop of lasy sea
son is practically exhausted months
before there is any hing new to offer
and the demand for pecans for. many
uses continues throughout the year,
unabated and steadily increasing. The
Ntws predicts that pecans are going
to do for North Florida what oranges
have done COR South Florida, anu the
editor is not speaking carelessly, but
after long study of the conditions ana
prospects.
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sss cures Bilious Fsvsr.-ssissaoe.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1921-07-02
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SATURDAY MORNING,
Phoenix To Have More
New Film Productions
With The Rialto Open

The opening of the Rialto theater.
Phoenix newest picture house, will
mean not only more pictures but the
good pictures earlier than usual, ac-
cording to the plans of Richards and
Mace, the owners. That is natural
enough. however. for with two thea
tiers instead of one showing first-run
pictures the firm will be able to offer
five late releases a week instead of
three, the present schedule at the
Strand.
In the past it has been the policy
of the amusement men to obtain new
productions as soon as possible for
the Strand. The number that could
be used in week was of course an
obstacle, though it was overcome to
some extent by efforts to obtain at
least the best new pictures imme-
diately after they had been released
for this territory. In some cases
Phoenix saw pictures before Los An
geles did, in others the week follow
ing their exhibition on the coast. But
in every instance the newest pictures
were offered here as soon as they
could be booked. and this policy will
be continued with even greater sue
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1921-07-02
Pay Tribute to Thomas Meighan In
Selecting Picture to Open Rialto

In presenting Thomas Meighan in
"The City of Silent Men, as the
opening attraction at their handsome
new Rialto theater here, Richards and
Mace are doing more than just offer
an exceptional Paramount picture.
They are giving signal honor to a
player who has worked his way to
stardom by sheer merit and perse-
verance.
Thomas Meighan, who wired the
management Of the new theater the
other day that he would be pleased to
attend the opening of the Rialto were
he able to finish work on his most
recent production. "Cappy Kicks" at
the Long Island studios in time, has
risen from small parts to "stardom'
not over night but by constant plug
ging, good work and common sense.
Yet since being featured alone he has,
in one year, won for himself repu-
tation as one of the three most popu-
lar male stars Of the screen and
seems likely to advance to the top
rung Of the ladder of fame, because
he is not q player of whom the public
will tire.
Msishan spent several years Or the
stage, playing opposite many well
known stars, and took up picture
work about four years ago. AS one
director expressed it, Tom just
couldn't be kept down." He played
opposite Marguerite Clark in severa
pictures, was seen with Norma Tai
madge in THE Forbidden City" and
then sold" the idea of playing the
leading male part in THE Miracle
Man" to George Loane Tucker Ir