George W. Payne
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George W. Payne was a phrenologist, touring hypnotist, and publisher of New Thought and other psychical interests.
Selected Publications
- Psychic World, a "monthly magazine devoted to the discussion of New Thought, occult and psychic phenomena, from an independent and progressive standpoint, by leading and famous writers" (including the likes of Grant Wallace). Subjects: "Psychology, Hypnotism, Suggestive Therapeutics, Personal Magnetism, Mental Science, Phrenology, Palmistry, Astrology, Physical Culture, Physiognomy."
Timeline
1890s
During the latter-half of the 1890s, Payne was active as a leading member of the Vancouver Phrenological Society (British Columbia), and made lecture tours on the subject. In advertising, he solicited himself as a renowned phrenologist and physiognomist, as well as a local agent for books by William Windsor and Fowler & Wells.
1900s
During 1901, Payne, then-principal of the National Institute of Science, appeared in classified advertising in Spokane, Washington, promoting himself as a magnetic healer / suggestive therapist, in addition to offering phrenological examinations. One year later, in 1902, Payne was resident in California, promoting the Columbian Institute of Science, based in San Francisco at 1104 Market St., a 14-room lodging house, a building address shared with Ismar, the Egyptian gypsy, clairvoyant, palmist, &c. He appears to have remained in California until 1905, when he began touring with Marguerite Foy through Oregon as an assistant in her act.
- "WILL LECTURE IN ALAMEDA", Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA): 5, 13 Jan. 1903, https://www.newspapers.com/article/oakland-tribune-will-lecture-in-alameda/146532865/
- "DR. GEO. W. PAYNE'S HYPNOTIC ENTERTAINMENT APPRECIATED", San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA): 6, 4 Mar. 1904, https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SJMN19040304.2.57
- "MANY HYPNOTIZED. Things Mysterious and Unheard of to the Mind of the Layman — Principles Hard to Grasp.", Corvallis Gazette (Corvallis, OR): 3, 28 Feb. 1905, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/787537712/