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The article profiles Jewish American magician and escapologist Harry Houdini. Houdini toured the Canadian Maritimes as a humble magician's assistant after his property was seized for non-payments of debts. Houdini and his wife often performed their illusions up to twenty times a day at dime museums. The Houdinis organized a magic show at Dartmouth, England's St. Peter's Hall on July 6, 1896, that marked the beginning of Houdini's international career as a headline entertainer.

This article provides information on Tricks and Treats at the Wax Musée produced at the World in Wax Musée in Coney Island, New York on October 31, 1981. The producer of Tricks and Treats was Coney Island, U.S.A., an organization dedicated to the preservation of American amusements and presentation of performance art. Historically, the wax museum belonged to the popular entertainment form known as the dime museum, which had a relative fixed structure. Eventually the various elements of the dime museum left for other institutions. Inside the museum, the spectator passed a row of wax exhibits of once-famous murderers in the act of committing the crimes that had made them front-page celebrities. Representative of the presentations at "Tricks and Treats of the Wax Musée were pieces by Paul Zaloom, Sandra McKee, Charles Ludlam and Dick Zigun. Zaloom entered from the rear of the audience and, blowing on a hallow pipe to simulate the boat horn, moved through the crowd to the table. His act continued with the renovation of a Lower East Side tenement, a trip to the Bronx that included a stop at Yankee stadium. In a booth with a door and a window, whitewashed walls and a blood-spattered floor, Mckee, seated in a chair with a raincoat draped over the back, told of violent crimes and various atrocities her mother used to read to her from the newspapers.

The article focuses on the improvements in the iconic coin displays at the Edward C. Rochette Money Museum . Topics mentioned include the need to change the housing of 1804 Draped Bust Dollars and 1913 Liberty Head nickel, the installation of a single and large case that are ideal for viewing and allows the secure display of additional pieces, and the funding was donated by coin dealer Harlan Berk and some of his associates.

Presents news on travel in the United States as of February 2002. Photography exhibit at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Rates at Cheshire Inn and Lodge in Saint Louis, Missouri; Show at the American Dime Museum in Baltimore, Maryland; Budget hotels in several cities.

Describes several unusual museums in Baltimore, Maryland. Artifacts at the American Dime Museum; Mount Vernon Museum of Incandescent Lighting; National Museum of Dentistry.

Announces the exhibition of the Samoan sea worm at Baltimore, Maryland's American Dime Museum. Description of the fake worms; Other items featured in the museum.