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...loving British peer over the telephones which hospitable Joe Zelli placed on every table to facilitate social intercourse; or, on rare occasions, a tycoon-sired U. S. collegian squirting seltzer-water at beturbanned Indian moguls.* William Bateman ("Tinplate") Leeds provided a fine funeral complete with a satin-lined casket at Scarsdale, N. Y., for Pal, a German shepherd dog killed in a dog fight. Hearst's Boston American quoted friends of youthful James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., son of Banker Stillman and Mrs. Fifi Fowler McCormick, as saying that after being graduated from Harvard Medical School in June...
...under one director; 2) transfer of all merchant marine functions to the Department of Commerce; 3) grouping of all health and education services together. ¶ To the funeral of Richard Oulahan, New York Times correspondent and dean of Washington correspondents (see p. 61) went President & Mrs. Hoover. On the casket of the deceased, who had been kinder to the President than any other Washington correspondent save Mark Sullivan, lay a spray of rosebuds and a palm from the White House greenhouses...
...young (11) to serve in the Civil War when Lieut. Colonel Garfield was mustering a regiment. Two Hiram coeds, dressed in hoopskirts, helped plant an evergreen tree on the campus. "Taps" sounded as a flag was run up the flagstaff-the flag which covered President Garfield's casket after his assassination...
There were articles on funeral prices, cut-rate practices, arrangement of the casket display room so that the prospect will not always select the cheap ones. Only once was the delicate (to the undertaker) subject of cremation mentioned; thus...
...sideline of urns at a modest price and "sell" a bigger funeral. As in most trade magazines, there is a page in the Mortuary Digest reserved for informal shoptalk. It is headed "The Back Room." Advertisements in the funeral press are quite different from the subtle "institutional" advertisements of casket makers, cemeteries and crematories which appear in popular magazines. Some are outspoken : "This casket will be a wonderful seller. . . ." "The casket of the month- Rustless Zinc." . . . "Nature-Glo-Rivals Cosmetic Effect of Living Blood." . . . "William H. Doty! The Fluid Man." . . . Also there are classified advertisements. Sample...