Showing posts with label 1926. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1926. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Wormer & Moore's Almanack & Le Loup Garou

Detroit Free Press, March 7, 1926 (enlarge)
Gundella wrote of Le Loup Garou (were-wolf) as did Marie Caroline Watson Hamlin in her classic Legends of Le Détroit but Wormer & Moore, in the February 1926 issue of their Almanack, claim to have written the definitive text of the half man-wolf skulking Grosse Pointe. Gimme!

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Fooled: Conan Doyle vs. Houdini: Who's Right?

Detroit Free Press, February 10, 1926
See Mystic Spencer produce Spirit Paintings on the stage of the Fox Washington Theatre this week.

While I was hoping that Mystic Spencer was a local psychic & crystal gazer it seems that he was a regional performer, oft in Ohio and the Midwest.

The Coshocton Tribune, September 14, 1922