The Spiritualist newspaper > No.320, October 11th 1878

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Bullet’s Experiments—Spirit Photography in the Dark
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phine to Napoleon ... • ... 169
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The Death of Prince Wittgenstein 174
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A Ghostly Concert ... 178
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Correspondence:—What Truth is there in Homoeopathy?—
A Spiritualistic Community ... 179
The Arya Samaj of Aryavart 180
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What The Standard Newspaper Thinks, 173; Mrs.
Weldon and the Lunacy Laws, 174; The Late Pre¬
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Scottish Ghost 179
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