A Brief Note From 1911 About An Optimist

From the January 29, 1911 New York Times:

McKeesport, Penn.–So great was the crowd wanting to see Margaret Shipley, the blind girl in a trance, that the street railway company put on two extra cars running to her home. About 100 persons remained about the house all night.

The blind girl, who has promised that on Monday night she will gain her sight, through her fasting and faith, partially came out of her trance toward the morning, and for a few moments exhorted in an unknown tongue. One word was recognized by those who heard her. It was ‘Tibet.’ On being questioned as to the significance of this word, Mrs. Charles F. Halderman, in whose house the girl lies, said that before passing into her trance the girl said she had been instructed that on receiving her sight she would go to Tibet as a missionary.

She told Mrs. Halderman that she wanted twelve persons, whom she named, to be present to witness her recovery on Monday night.”

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