Edgar Cayce · 1901 to 1930
Edgar Cayce in the newspapers, free PDF
This is every article about Edgar Cayce that we could find from 1901 to 1930, as a free 46 page PDF. It starts with one sentence in a Tennessee paper and ends with the 1930 announcement of Atlantic University, and each item carries its paper, date, page and a link to the scan.
Tap the dark field and a ring of light runs outward, setting each passing line of type in copper. The columns follow a newspaper page.
Where it starts
Seventeen items in one file
The clippings in date order, each beside its transcription, with the papers named and the other Cayces we set aside listed in an appendix.
- Pages46, at 6 × 9 inches
- InsideSixteen Library of Congress items plus the 1910 Times feature, bookmarks and a contents page
- TextMachine-read and corrected, with the clipping beside it
- FilePDF, 5.9 MB
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Where and when it ran
Seventeen items, nine cities, thirty years
Each mark is a city whose paper ran something about him, sized by how many items it ran. Each clipping on the line below is one item, stacked when several fall within weeks of each other. Pick either one and the other lights up.
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His own figure
The number that was quoted, three ways
The count of cases he had diagnosed turns up three times in 1922 and every time it is worded differently. The first is the figure Wikipedia gives as a count of readings, and the paper says cases.
Written out as eight thousand and fifty-six cases, over twenty-two years. The Age-Herald, page 2, in Dolly Dalrymple’s interview.
The paper’s own summary after his talk at Howard College, with 7,000 of them called successful by him.
His advertisement, which says over eight thousand cases and gives the Tutwiler Hotel as his address.
How we sorted them
Most hits were someone else
We pulled 583 newspaper pages that the Library of Congress search tied to the name. The surname turns up on 500 of them, and the full name Edgar Cayce on 26. What is left after reading each hit is 17 pages about him. The PDF prints 16 of them as items, because the two Detroit editions ran one story, and adds the New York Times.
The rest of the full-name pages are schoolboys, children’s letters to Santa and Selma lists. Five or six of those lines are probably him, but a name in a list cannot prove it, so they sit in an appendix in the PDF and not in the count.
The full list
Every item, in order
| Date | Paper | Place | Heading | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia herald | Columbia, Tennessee | Untitled item, Cayce able to talk again | page 7 | |
| Detroit times | Detroit, Michigan | In Hypnotic State Names Diseases | page 1 | |
| New York Times | New York, New York | Illiterate Man Becomes a Doctor When Hypnotized | Sunday Magazine, page 11 | |
| Atlanta semi-weekly journal | Atlanta, Georgia | Basis for $28,000 Suit | page 8 | |
| Montgomery advertiser | Montgomery, Alabama | Cayce Paints Pictures | page 8 | |
| Montgomery advertiser | Montgomery, Alabama | Sir Arthur Doyle Coming Here | page 13 | |
| Chattanooga news | Chattanooga, Tennessee | Selmans Puzzled Over Psychic Power | page 1 | |
| Montgomery advertiser | Montgomery, Alabama | Cayce Expects Conan Doyle | page 2 | |
| Birmingham age-herald | Birmingham, Alabama | Cayce Declares Hospital Assured | page 6 | |
| Birmingham age-herald | Birmingham, Alabama | “Peculiar Gift Has Been Mine Since Youth,” Says Mr. Cayce | page 2 | |
| Birmingham age-herald | Birmingham, Alabama | Is the Age-Herald Read? | page 6 | |
| Birmingham age-herald | Birmingham, Alabama | Edgar Cayce, Psychic, Says Own Powers Are Mystery | page 5 | |
| Birmingham age-herald | Birmingham, Alabama | Mystic to Speak | page 5 | |
| Birmingham age-herald | Birmingham, Alabama | Edgar Cayce Invites You to See Him | page 8 | |
| Birmingham age-herald | Birmingham, Alabama | Cayce at Home | page 2 | |
| Washington daily news | Washington, D.C. | New College Devoted to Psychic Research | page 13 | |
| South Bend news-times | South Bend, Indiana | New University Will Open Soon | page 19 |
Questions
About the clippings and the PDF
Where did the 8,056 figure come from?
From the Birmingham Age-Herald of October 10, 1922, page 2, where Dolly Dalrymple's interview has him saying he had diagnosed eight thousand and fifty-six cases over twenty-two years. The paper says cases, not readings. Four days later the same paper summarized it as more than 8,000, and his December advertisement says over eight thousand.
Is the 1910 New York Times piece the first newspaper story on him?
No. The Detroit Times ran a wire story from Hopkinsville on October 4, 1910, five days earlier, and a Tennessee paper printed one sentence about him in February 1901. Our search covers only pages the Library of Congress has scanned, so earlier items may exist elsewhere.
Why does the PDF stop at 1930?
Newspapers printed in 1930 or earlier are in the public domain in the United States, so the full text can be reproduced with no permission question. Later pages may still be under copyright.
Are the transcriptions exact?
They are machine-read from the Library of Congress scans, checked against a dictionary and corrected where the page showed an error. A few mistakes can remain, and every item sits next to its clipping so you can check. The Times feature is shown as column images because our reading of that scan was too error-prone to print.
How did you tell this Edgar Cayce from other Cayces?
By reading each hit. The name is common in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama, and most of the 500 pages we pulled that carry it name someone else. We kept items that say Hopkinsville, Selma, Ketchum, psychic, hospital or Virginia Beach, and set aside list lines we could not confirm.
Does the PDF include his readings?
No. The readings are under copyright, and the PDF holds only newspaper text and our own introduction. The A.R.E. holds the readings and lets members search them.
Sources
- Library of Congress, Chronicling America, digitized newspapers. Each item in the table above links to its page.
- The New York Times, October 9, 1910, Sunday Magazine, page 11, from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
- State outlines: US Census Bureau boundaries, via us-atlas 3.0.1.
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