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Astrology newspaper predicts the future during the Civil War...
Astrology newspaper predicts the future during the Civil War...
Item # 689803
June 01, 1863
BROUGHTON'S MONTHLY PLANET READER & ASTROLOGICAL JOURNAL, Philadelphia, April, May & June, 1863
* Uncommon publication
* Astrology - Horoscope
* President Abraham Lincoln
A fascinating and very unusual newspaper of small-size themed on predicting what would happen in the future as well as astrology and phrenology.
The front page has: "Places of the Plants Given Below. Abraham Lincoln, President of The Federal States of America" which takes most of the front page. Also on the ftpg. is the continued: "Nativity of Gen. A. E. Burnside" carrying over to page 2.
Inside has: "The Astrologer" but is mostly taken up with: "An Act for the Suppression of Fortune Telling & Other Purposes".
The back page has: "The Fate of the Nation, for the Spring Quarter of 1863".
Four pages, 5 3/4 by 9 inches, nice condition.
Category: Moments in American History