The inside of the can was divided in two each half contained a six-side die floating in the dark, viscous liquid (according to some accounts, molasses from his mother's kitchen) and each of the die's six sides was inscribed with a short answer. He went to work using what he knew best -murky liquids in cans and bottles- and developed what he called the Syco-Seer Miracle Home Fortune Teller -a seven inch can-shaped device with a glass window on each end. It had to look mysterious, it had to offer a variety of answers and, because he had no capital to work with, it had to be cheap to build. It took some time for Carter to work out the details.
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When sober, however, he fancied himself an inventor, and seeing the success of his mother's Psycho-Slate, Albert Carter came up with his best idea ever: a portable fortune-telling device that any spiritual seeker could use at any time or place. (How she did it remains a mystery.) TELL A FORTUNE, MAKE A FORTUNE? Mary Carter had a son named Albert who had little use for any spirits that couldn't be drunk straight from the bottle. When a client asked a question, Carter would close the lid, and after a short interval of muffled chalkboard scratching, she would dramatically flip open the lid to reveal the spirit world's answer, written with chalk in a ghostly scrawl. Her best seance stunt was one she called the Psycho-Slate, consisting of a chalkboard inside a box, with a lid covering it.
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In the 1940s, a woman named "Madame" Mary Carter was capitalizing on that opportunity, plying her trade as a professional clairvoyant in Cincinnati. Can a toy company make money selling it? SIGNS POINT TO YES! A SEEKER BORN EVERY MINUTE Wartime has long been a boom time for spiritualists, mostly because people long for any news about loved ones a the battlefront. Can it at least give good advice? REPLY HAZY, TRY AGAIN. Can a plastic orb connect you to the spirit world and life the future's filmy veil? OUTLOOK NOT SO GOOD.
The following is an article from the book Uncle John's Heavy Duty Bathroom Reader.
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