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The Legend of the Palm Reader
William John Warner toured and performed under the name Cairo. He claimed to have studied thousands of hands, cast in plaster,. impressions in clay, and even printed on paper with ink. By the end of his life, he had set up shop in Hollywood where he sold upwards of 20 palm readings a day for as much as a thousand bucks a pop.