Radio: Moon Trail and Sir Arthur

In 1937 in Lily Dale, N. Y., where spiritualism and Townsendism are the chief preoccupations of the inhabitants, a friend of the shades named Ralph G. Pressing announced that he had managed to record at a seance in the Maplewood Hotel a report from Beyond. The spooky commentator was an American Indian named Moon Trail. Dead 300 years, Moon Trail's remarks, as translated by his intermediary, Dr. Horace S. Rambling of

London and the spirit world, and as revealed by Mr. Pressing's recording, proved him a man of culture, if no great originality. Said Moon Trail: "Learning is living. . . ....

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