FORTUNE-TELLING
'HIGHLY TAXED IN AMERICA.
Fortulne-telling is an expensive occupation for the performer as well as for the client in 35 out of the 300 American cities included in a survey just completed by the Municipal Information Bureau of the 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 fee. The other 16 cities prohibit fortune-telling and punish offenders harshly. In many of the States fortune-tellers are declared by statute to be vagrants, as in Minnesota and Wisconsin. 'Municipalities .that have framed regulations in restraint of fodtune-tell-ing based them upon observations made in strict confidence upon reports by social and welfare workers and in response to the demands of commercial and trade organisations. Elwood, Indiana, estimated that more than 1000 dollars were carried from' the city every month by travelling for-tune-tellers. Minneapolis permits fortune-telling only to residents of six months’ standing. Several cities require that bonds before a license is granted. Kansas City requires an endorsement of character by three reputable citizens, the filing of a 1000-dollar bond, a license fee of 100 dollars a year, and imposes a penalty of from 100 dollars to 500 dollars for violation of the ordinance. The other 265 cities included in the study neither regulate nor prohibit for-tune-telling.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1786, 24 July 1926, Page 2
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