This information comes from the book Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet by Sidney Kirkpatrick (pages 233-234). The author also says Houdini, Hereward Carrington and William McDougal attended readings at the McAlpin Hotel. This is all good stuff and I would love to know Mr. Kirkpatrick's source.
Thanks to Richard Hatch for the tip.
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Oh that's new to me! No Houdini bio mentions Cayce. You have one new Chronolgy date to contend with now. The Cayce readings at the McAlpine Hotel. Might be worth buying the book for that and for the source notes. Interesting that HH didn't try to shoot him down. Cayce might have avoided trying for prize money like the Scientific American contest Margery dove into.
ReplyDeleteYou can view the Houdini pages as part of the Amazon preview, which is where I got the McAlpin info. Guess I would need to get the book to see if it has source notes.
DeleteThe Cayce book might have the date of the McAlpin session.
DeleteI’m as much a boxing historian as I am regarding Houdini but I never heard he attended the Dempsey Carpentier fight in 1921. Is there any other major fight he attended do we know? Perry from NJ.
ReplyDeleteYes, I have one other in my chronology. He attended the lightweight championship bout between Joe Gans and Jimmy Britt in San Francisco on Sept. 9, 1907. On this occasion he was introduced to the crowd.
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