According to the Philadelphia City Paper, 9/19/13 at pp. 6, 8, in an article mostly about the Vision Bush in Fairmount Park (see entry on Cyber Plaque), it says In 1881, The New York Times reported that an 18-year-old blind girl had claimed to have seen Mary on the wall of her bedroom, at 4058 Market St. Others also witnessed a crowned figure on the wall, though the reporter was warned by a doctor that 'the girl is in a state of diphtheria and is liable to imagine anything.'
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According to the Philadelphia City Paper, 9/19/13 at pp. 6, 8, in an article mostly about the Vision Bush in Fairmount Park (see entry on Cyber Plaque), it says In 1881, The New York Times reported that an 18-year-old blind girl had claimed to have seen Mary on the wall of her bedroom, at 4058 Market St. Others also witnessed a crowned figure on the wall, though the reporter was warned by a doctor that 'the girl is in a state of diphtheria and is liable to imagine anything.'