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1896 Maritimes tour

Not sure if this may be of any assistance of the article, but a recent article by the Telegraph-Journal goes over Houdini being close to giving up on his career prior to an 1896 tour of the Maritimes after being invited by "Marco The Magician" to perform in Saint John and Halifax.

Article (subscription required, I have access incase this may be worthy to add to the article): https://tj.news/telegraph-journal/102154660?ref=tw

B3251 (talk) 20:41, 17 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Biased sourced

Using Arthur Conan Doyle as a source on Houdini's death seems really bad. They had a feud. This article also quotes Snopes which in turn quotes the Arthur Conan Doyle book but notes that there is "much dispute remains over exactly what took place". This "dispute" is not reflected in the article. Óli Gneisti (talk) 10:42, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Early life

Nothing is mentioned regarding Houdini working as an apprentice locksmith at 11 years old. 12.171.249.130 (talk) 16:50, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Have you got a source we can look at? _signed,Willondon (talk) 17:01, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Source article does not match claim

The line "It is unlikely that the dressing room incident caused Houdini's eventual death, since the effects of sustaining blunt trauma alongside appendicitis is debated in medical literature" is followed up with no links that support the actual statement that it is unlikely. At best, it is unknown. The TSACO article that is attached does not say that blunt trauma cannot exacerbate the effects of appendicitis, it only says that blunt trauma cannot *cause* the appendicitis. So it is misleading to insinuate that this article supports the idea that it is "unlikely" that the blunt trauma to the stomach caused Houdini's eventual death. ClaireTheApocalypse (talk) 23:54, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]