"If you can get away with a trick before a country audience you can get away with it anywhere."
Harry Houdini 1926 This article appeared in the FALL 2020 issue of AMUSE magazine. A few days after Christmas in 1897, a medicine show...
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Oct 20, 20221 min
Harry & Bess Houdini in Cherryvale, KS and A Fire!
The next stop on my recent exploration of towns Houdini visited during the winter of 1897-98 was Cherryvale, Kansas. Bess & Harry were...
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Oct 20, 20222 min
Houdini Opera House Discovered - Scammon, KS
During a cold weekend in January 1898, the California Concert Company got off the train at the Scammon, KS depot and made their way a few...
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