Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of "Yoga" using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
yoga, Swami, Hindu (sometimes spelled Hindoo), Tantrick (also spelled Tantric) , Vivekananda, Tregunatita, Pierre Arnold Bernard, Great Oom.
It is important to use a specific date range if looking for articles for a particular event in order to narrow your results. To narrow your results for this topic, search between 1902 and 1921.

Selected Articles from Chronicling America

"Mrs. Katherine C. Tingley’s Theosopic Raja yoga school at Point Loma Cal will now undergo rigid investigation"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), November 16, 1902, Page 8, Image 22, col. 1-3.
"Mental Slavery to Mrs. Tingley"
The San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA), November 26, 1902, Image 2, col. 2.
"Philosophy of the Vendar"
The San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA), August 23, 1903, Image 14, col. 1-7.
"Vedanta the faith of the yogis which Washington has taken up"
The Washington Times (Washington, DC), December 18, 1904, Magazine Features, Page 2, Image 30, col. 1-7.
"The community of reincarnated souls for which Lyman C Gage has abandoned the world of finance"
The Washington Times (Washington, DC), July 15, 1906, Magazine Section, Image 48, col. 1-7.
"Mysterious yoga faith of the east India which has robbed an American citizen of a devoted wife"
The Washington Times (Washington, DC), May 17, 1908, Magazine Section, Page 5, Image 37, col. 1-7.
"Worship in eastern calm"
The Sun (New York, NY), December 6, 1908, Second Section, Page 2, Image 18, col. 1-5.
"How young girls study the Hindoo method of rest and relaxation"
The San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA), April 11, 1909, Page 12, Image 12, col. 1-5.
"To convert Americans"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), February 20, 1910, Page 3, Image 17, col. 1-4.
"Weird orgies by the great god oom"
The Paducah Evening Sun (Paducah, KY), May 6, 1910, Page 6, Image 6, col. 3-4.
"Holy fraud is in law’s toils a sex pervert"
Bisbee Daily Review (Bisbee, AZ), May 8, 1910, Page 1, Image 1, col. 6.
"Oom forfeits Sunday ball game and his repute as omnipotent"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), August 8, 1921, Page 16, Image 16, col. 2-3.

Yoga: Topics in Chronicling America

Search Strategies & Selected Articles

Selected Articles from Chronicling America