Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 26, 1938
Caption:
NEW YORK MAYOR ARRIVES HERE: Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, dynamic and colorful political leader of the nation's largest city, is shown, carrying his own bag, just after he stepped off the Wolverine at the Michigan Central station this morning in a snowstorm. He stopped here briefly on his way to Lansing for a speech. With him are Paul J. Kern, formerly of Ann Arbor, now a member of the New York city civil service commission; Miss Esther Kern, his sister, and Karl C. Kern, his father, both of Ann Arbor.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 30, 1935
Caption:
FOUR YEARS TO BUILD 'PUTZ': Mrs. Karl C. Kern, 551 S. Fifth St., and her daughter, Esther, teacher in the Wyandotte Schools, spent more than four years collecting materials and building the 'Moravian putz," or Christmas garden, shown above. This garden is a pictured story of the Nativity, built around the base of three small Christmas trees. It is modeled after a similar picturization described in a 1926 copy of the Ladies Home Journal. The scene shows figures of the Nativity, camels, sheep, shepherds, donkeys, three Wise Men, a cave, desert and palm trees.