This book consists of 61 pages of dream keywords with several three-digit numeral combinations for each dream, plus a predictive interpretation or forecast.
The dreams are given
interpretations in the following format:
CEMETERY --
This is a dream of extreme happiness for five years --
386. To walk in one at night -- 129.
There are also 2 pages of birthday numbers (1 by the Gypsy King and 1 by Professor Zonite), 1 page of wedding anniversary symbols and their corresponding 3-digit numbers, 1 page of monthly "Super Specials for All Popular Totals," a 6 page article on numerology, and a 1 page introduction describing The Gypsy King.
So, who was The Gypsy King? Well, according to the introduction:
NOTE -- King John, head of the gypsies, was born near
Budapest in 1882 and lived the early part of his life roaming thru
Europe and Asia. He came to America in 1901. Altho the police
attitude toward him was unfavorable, he has never spent a day in
jail nor did a full day's work and always had plenty of money thru
his predictions.
Be that as it may, according to the more mundane story related by Anthony Shafton, who interviewed Andres Visnapuu, the book's current publisher in 1995, "The Gypsy King" was a pseudonym for Ralph Anderson, who in 1931 had founded Daily Press Publishing in Baltimore, Maryland. This company was later known as the Eagle Supply Company of Youngstown, Ohio, and was managed by Anderson until his death in 1967.
It would be interesting to speculate that Ralph Anderson -- or whoever wrote the
biographical note on The Gypsy King -- was raised in or spent time as a journalist
in the Chicago region. The use of strange simplified spellings for common
English words was popularized by the Chicago Tribune during the 1930s, but
failed to make a dent in the spelling habits of the nation and eventually
sank back into obscurity. A Chicago Tribune article dated September 24, 1939
mentions that the paper would henceforth use the simplified spellings
thru, altho, tho, and thoro -- which is why i have tentatively dated the
True Fortune Teller Dream Book to 1940. Further information on the book's
history would be greatly appreciated.
More general information about dream books, policy wheels, and lottery betting will be found in the page about "Aunt Sally's Policy Players Dream Book"
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