Spiritualism was a belief that one could communicate not only with God, but with spirits and angels in the afterlife not just with prayer, but with spirit boards, automatic writing and possession by otherworldly beings. In its history, Williamsport had a group of people dedicated to spiritualism. “Williamsport should be very proud of its history,” Campana said. 5, 1924, Houdini was called “the famous exposer of fraudulent spiritualistic phenomena.” According to the listing, he would be on hand to provide a “splendid lecture and entertainment” and had been brought in by the Williamsport Ministerial Association.ĭorothy Dietrich, a modern escape artist and owner of the Houdini Museum in Scranton, believed that this Christian organization had a “good entertainment booker” to get Houdini here in Williamsport.įormer Williamsport Mayor Gabriel Campana, said in a telephone interview, that Williamsport “had a strong reputation as one of the stopping grounds” of Pennsylvania. In a listing published in The Grit on Oct. 9, 1924, to discuss how he believed soothsayers and the like were able to bilk the gullible.Īt the time, the Pine Street church was, according to a book dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the church found at the Thomas Taber Museum Library, about to seat in “all areas in full view of the pulpit” 2,500 persons.
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