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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1926
Page
12
NEA Service reports four residents aged 100 plus at a Harlem old people’s home discuss life’s meaning. Quotes include Youth, Success, Love, and the refrain Just living as the greatest thing, with Mrs Platner emphasizing living fully and accepting the end.
Paris June 23 The French government backs global fingerprinting of painters to prevent fraud. Using radiographs microphotographs and chemical analysis experts say paintings can be authenticated by thumbprint records. The plan envisions signing artworks and smearing a thumbprint over the signature for future verification.
Samuel Reustron, a New York delicatessen proprietor, repelled three armed bandits with sausages. When a boy pointed a gun, Reustron tossed a sausage at him and then attacked the others, forcing the trio to flee the store.
Miss Louise Owen, a British spiritualist medium, claims John Singer Sargent’s spirit continues teaching her to paint. She says the late American portraitist dictated an experimental self portrait now shown to Royal Academy officials, with Sargent promising to sign paintings once brain and hand coordination improves.
A 1925 account describes a séance guiding an unnamed recipient to draw by spirit hand. June guidance from Lord Northcliffe precedes steps to fix drawing paper, begin with charcoal sketches, and complete a self portrait seen through spirit eyes with Sargent steering the process.
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