New York 16 Fast Outgrowing Its Potter's Field
New York faces rapid outgrowing of Hart's Island as a burial ground for unidentified dead. Influenza and harsh winter increase daily burials to near one hundred, with 1928 charity graves totaling 6 770, including 4900 children. Cremation deemed impractical. exhumations frequent. identities traced when possible.
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NEW York 16
New York
Potter's Field
Little Hart's
East River
Hart's Island
Department of ‘Public’ Welfare
Hart’s Island
Board of Health
Public Welfare Department
Bang Goes Pistol and Coat Hanger Blamed for Shot
Chicago story of Mrs. Mar iam Mamberger who mistook a pistol in her husband’s coat for a gun and a swinging coat hanger for a blow. She fainted after declaring she was shot, and police learned an hour later the noises came from a pistol and a hanger.
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Chicago
Mariam Mamberger
Music Teachers Meet in Cedar Rapids Convention Banquet
Members of the Society of Music Teachers of Iowa attend the thirty fourth annual convention in Cedar Rapids. They will be honored at a banquet tonight as the event continues through tomorrow with sessions and presentations by educators from the state.
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Music Teachers
Cedar Rapids
Society of Music Teachers of
Iowa
German Expert Explains Otani On Disputed Art
Berlin reports Prof Lud wig Justl director of the National Gallery explains why 33 paintings sold by Otto Wacker as Vincent van Gogh works were spurious. Two disputed pictures went to the Buffalo museum and a New York private collector. Justl, aligned with Dutch expert de la Faille, cites chemical paint analyses and differences in treatment. Wacker has not fully explained origin. his brother Louis involved.
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Berlin
Ludwig Justl
National Gallery
Otto Wacker
Vincent van Gogh
America
Buffalo Museum
New York
Justi
de la Faille
van Gogh
J. Meier- Graefe
Hans Rosenhagen
Bremner
Holland
Wacker Pictures
Wacker
Germany
Louis
Van Gogh imitation case linked to Düsseldorf painter
An Associated Press report describes Justi guiding police seizure of four works in Louis Wacker's Düsseldorf home. He compares a genuine Van Gogh harvest scene with a pen and ink version, a Wacker advertised canvas, and a Louis Wacker landscape, noting color blending and sunlit effects missing in the imitation.
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Dusseldorf
Associated Press
Justi
van Gogh
Wacker
Louis
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