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the weekly comet (baton rouge, la.) 1853-1855 — spirit rapping

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1853-10-02
Location: baton rouge, louisiana, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the weekly comet (baton rouge, la.) 1853-1855 · 1853-10-02 · page 4
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1853-10-02 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “spirit rapping”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... the World's Temperance convention, the spirit rapping conven tion, the whole world's convention, the moral reform convention, and, here we must atop, but the lint is not yet com plete, A delegates to these various gatherings same, persons of every col or, every shade of opinion In morals and religion deist, atheist, socialist. Graham bread ist, in fact, ists of every name under the whole Heavensr Sometimes they met, quarreled about their organizations and finaly would break up in a disgraceful row some times the lookers on wotdd kick up a muss and the meeting have to disperse, and once in a while they would get long without any fuss. A prominent actor in almost ...

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