FORTUNE-TELLING.
HIGHLY TAXED IN AMERICA. Fortune-telling is an expensive occupation for the performer as well as for the client in 35 of tho 300 American cities included in a survey just completed by the Municipal Information Bureau of (lie University of Wisconsin extension division, states the New York Times. In 19 of the. cities fortune-tellers, clairvoyants, and mesmerists are required to obtain a license and are charged an almost prohibitive Ice. Tbe other 16 cities prohibit fortune-tolling and punish offenders harshly. In many Slates fortune-tellers arc declared to be vagrants by statute, as in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Municipalities that have framed regulations in restraint of fortune-tolling based them upon observations made in strict carnivals on reports by social and welfare workers and in response to the demands of commercial and trade organisations. Elwood, Ind., estimated that more than 1000 dollars wai carried from the city every month by travelling fortune-tellers. Lu Crosse, Wis., found women _ telling fortunes ut prices ranging up to six dollars. Minneapolis permits fortune-telling only to residents of six months’ standing. Several cities require that bonds bo tiled before a license is granted. Kansas City requires an endorsement of character by three reputable eili/..-ns, the; liling of a 1000-dolla‘r bond, a license fee of 100 dollars a vear, and impo-es a penalty of from 100 dollars to 500 dollans tor violation of the nr.linnnee. The caller 265 cities included in the study neither regulate nor prohibit fortune tolling
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19845, 19 July 1926, Page 2
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