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Miscellaneous Articles for the Charlatan
Misc Articles for the Charlatan:
One of the book's main characters was loosely built on Mina Crandon, a real life "psychic" famous in 1920s Boston.
The Margery Pamphlet
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/houdini-margery-pamphlet/
Mina Crandon
https://www.headstuff.org/culture/history/mina-crandon-psychic-fraudster/
The Cambridge Men
https://exhibitions.lib.cam.ac.uk/curiousobjects/case/spirits/
Miscellaneous Articles for Hawk House
A part of the book was loosely built around the murder in 1836 New York of Helen Jewett.
1836 Murder of a New York Prostitute Changed American Journalism
1836 Murder of a New York Prostitute Changed American Journalism
The Penny Press
Startling Price Cut to a Penny Made Newspapers Available to Everyone
Startling Price Cut to a Penny Made Newspapers Available to Everyone
Near Hawk Hill
There Are Underwater Ghost Towns Hiding Beneath Quabbin Reservoir In Massachusetts
There Are Underwater Ghost Towns Hiding Beneath Quabbin Reservoir In Mas...
Hearing Voices