| Summary: |
- Summary by:
- Pat Deveney
- Title:
- Psychic Century, The.
- Subtitle:
- Beyold I bring you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be unto all people
- Motto:
- Other Titles:
- Published:
- 1901
- Frequency:
- Weekly
- Location:
- Topeka, KS.
- Language:
- English.
- Editor(s):
- 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(s):
- Psychic Century Publishing Company.
- Corporate Author:
- Succession:
- Description:
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. |
