just a wee note in response to the poster who last week asked about whether Dr. H.W. Abbott ended up marrying the rich widow, if that's OK: It looks like he might have... alongside other two!
'Quite a breeze has been stirred up among the California relatives of Mrs G C Williams, the widow of a wealthy planter of Honolulu, who are fearful that she has a husband who is supposed to have a trio of wives to share her fortune (...) Dr H W Abbott, a spiritualist who formerly plied his vocation at 1644 Market street in this city. He is said to have a wife in Utah and also one in the East.' (The Daily Bulletin, Honolulu, December 18 1891)
The Wichita Daily Eagle also gives the titles of some of his lectures, including 'The Possibilities of the Wind', 'Marriage as it should be', 'The Prismatic cause of divorce', 'Is there a force without Matter?', and 'Are there Souls without bodies?'
There's also a general ad about the doctor in the same paper (January 09 1901):
'Dr H W Abbott, Psycological [sic] Healer. Teacher of the Abbott Philosophy of Life and Vibration of Color. Class in private instructions. The master of his work is his success. The many hundreds cured from 1882 to 1887 in this city and Newton by his method and thousands in this and foreign countries is evidence. He is not a stranger.'
And I think that's as much juice I could squeezed out of the lemons of the internet! I wonder what the vibration of color was about...
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Update on Dr Abbott
Date: 2021-05-03 11:45 am (UTC)just a wee note in response to the poster who last week asked about whether Dr. H.W. Abbott ended up marrying the rich widow, if that's OK: It looks like he might have... alongside other two!
'Quite a breeze has been stirred up among the California relatives of Mrs G C Williams, the widow of a wealthy planter of Honolulu, who are fearful that she has a husband who is supposed to have a trio of wives to share her fortune (...) Dr H W Abbott, a spiritualist who formerly plied his vocation at 1644 Market street in this city. He is said to have a wife in Utah and also one in the East.' (The Daily Bulletin, Honolulu, December 18 1891)
The Wichita Daily Eagle also gives the titles of some of his lectures, including 'The Possibilities of the Wind', 'Marriage as it should be', 'The Prismatic cause of divorce', 'Is there a force without Matter?', and 'Are there Souls without bodies?'
There's also a general ad about the doctor in the same paper (January 09 1901):
'Dr H W Abbott, Psycological [sic] Healer. Teacher of the Abbott Philosophy of Life and Vibration of Color. Class in private instructions. The master of his work is his success. The many hundreds cured from 1882 to 1887 in this city and Newton by his method and thousands in this and foreign countries is evidence. He is not a stranger.'
And I think that's as much juice I could squeezed out of the lemons of the internet! I wonder what the vibration of color was about...
Manuel