Family Searches for Artist Driven Insane by Painting Frescoes

Feb. 13, 1910, Valentine's Day

The Times’ editorializes on Valentine’s Day, of which it is much in favor.  “Think back — think away back along the track of the wild years to the day when you sent your first valentine."

Feb. 13, 1910, Fresco Painter

Feb. 13, 1910: Fresco painter Wick Hennen of 644 Maple Avenue has vanished after going insane from looking at ceilings all day, his family says. The Times never reported anything further, as far as I can tell …  And Michael McShean, "a timid and weakened tuberculosis sufferer," committed suicide after losing his investment in a cigar stand at 5th and Ruth streets, according to testimony in the fraud trial of Dolph M. Greene.

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