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June 6, 1922: Province House, which dates to 1679 and was the home of royal governors of Massachusetts in the 1700s, being demolished in Boston. The historic structure has fallen into disrepair.

June 5, 1922: Rembrandt's "St. Paul in Prison" is stolen from the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany. The artwork, one of the Old Master's earliest paintings dating to 1627, is later recovered. (Baltimore Sun)

June 1 1922: The wearing of trousers-like “knickers” by women in Traverse City, Mich., is banned by Mayor Lafayette Swanton, who fears the show of legs will corrupt the morals of boys. “I propose to see that they no longer are tempted by immoral dress,” he says.1/2

May 28, 1922: John Munro Longyear, mining engineer who became one of the largest developers of timber and mineral lands in Michigan, dies at 72. Longyearbyen, the capital of Norway's Svalbard Islands, where he operated a coal mining operation, is named for him.

May 26, 1922: Portuguese painter Aurélia de Souza dies at 55 in Porto. She is noted for her realism with a post-impressionist influence, and her “Self-Portrait” (1900) is among Portugal’s best-known modern works. Also seen: “Chilena.”

May 12, 1922: Model/actress/dancer Peggy Joyce returns to the U.S. from a European tour to discover that her movies have been banned by exhibitors, "for the good of the screen." While she was in Paris on May 1, a Chilean attaché had fatally shot himself in her hotel room. 1/3

May 8, 1922: A memorial is dedicated in Bruges, Belgium, at the site where British merchant ship Capt. Charles Fryatt was executed by the Germans for using his ship, the Brussels, to ram a U-boat during WWI. The shooting was widely denounced as an atrocity. 1/2

May 1, 1922: The British insist Mohandas Gandhi is comfortable in prison, as they refute rumors by Indian independence activists of his ill treatment. The 52-year-old activist has separate quarters instead of a cell, is allowed to receive visitors and gets square meals.

April 29, 1922: Kyrylo Stetsenko, Ukrainian composer, conductor and Orthodox priest, dies at 39 of typhus after tending to victims of an outbreak of the disease amid famine conditions. He composed over 30 works to the words of national poets, as well as scores of choral pieces.