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Periodical: Psychic Century

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Psychic Century, The.
Beyold I bring you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be unto all people
1901 Weekly
Topeka, KS.
Editor: Laura Belle Roberts Payne, with W.B. Wagner as associate editor, andCameron F. Roberts (her brother) and later A.H. Jackson as business manager.
Publisher: Psychic Century Publishing Company.
1/1, January 10, 1901-May 30, 1901.
4 pp., $1.00 a year.

This was a short-lived journal focused on spiritualism, reform and feminism. The Religio-Philosophical Journal noted its appearance and called it "a bright and spicy paper," but, other than serious articles by Payne on progress, spiritualism and the injustice of how society treated women, it consisted largely of selections from other journals and notes on the local spiritualist activities. The journal reprinted a message from P.B. Randolph, received by the writing medium Mrs. Linnie Wagner, and featured a posthumous poem by E.A. Poe, poems by Lizzie Doten and Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and notes on spirit photography, frauds, and local organization. The journal printed an excerpt from W.B. Wagner's Edna Gray: A Spiritualistic Romance, one of its editors, and advertised the services of his wife (Mrs. Inez Wagner) as a Trance and Platform Test Medium. Payne (1865-1927) was a prominent Socialist (I.W.W. -- Wobbly) lecturer around the Midwest, a psychic healer and Anglo-Israelite, and was the first woman in the South to run for congress (she garnered 4.5% of the vote) -- all while she was president of the Texas State Spiritualist Association. Noted in Banner of Light 89/4 (March 23, 1901): 4.

Issues:The Psychic Century V1 N1 Jan 10 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N2 Jan 17 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N3 Jan 24 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N4 Jan 31 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N5 Feb 7 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N6 Feb 14 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N7 Feb 21 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N8 Feb 28 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N9 Mar 7 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N10 Mar 14 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N11 Mar 21 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N12 Mar 28 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N13 Apr 4 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N14 Apr 11 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N15 Apr 17 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N16 Apr 24 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N17 May 2 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N18 May 9 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N19 May 16 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N20 May 22 1901
The Psychic Century V1 N21 May 30 1901

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