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...Wilson, broken in health, retired from the old white mansion at 1601 Pennsylvania Ave. and went to live quietly in a house on S Street in the northwestern part of Washington?Vice President Dawes, taking in his hand an historic trowel, laid a great marble slab upon a steel casket containing masonic emblems...
...damped by a spring shower, looked on and listened. The Republican Glee Club of Columbus, Ohio, the boys' band of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home gave musical selections. Representatives of many fraternal lodges to which the late President belonged deposited emblems of their orders in the steel casket set in the cement foundation. Then Mr. Dawes, with the very trowel which the Mason-President last used?at Ketchikan, Alaska, in laying the cornerstone of a masonic lodge?placed the marble slab in place...
...police vainly attempted to keep them back, burst through the police guard, knocked Bert Lytell, one of the cinema-star pallbearers, against a wheel of the hearse, sent the other pallbearers fleeing for safety. This stampede apparently resulted from the desire of numerous women to touch the silver casket of "the girl who was too beautiful to live." Five women fainted, were carried into the funeral parlors to be revived. Men and boys screeched and shouted from treetops, sign boards, roofs...
...never before found a single piece of furniture from so remote an age as that of Sneferu. Experts believe that most of the collapsed wood can be successfully reconstructed by means of the inlay and metal ornamentation. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts now has on exhibition a jewel casket and toilet box of a somewhat later Egyptian princess which was built entirely from the ivory inlay and gold frames...
...recall his funeral only from having done the squadron commander's work while Major Baker was attending the full military funeral we gave von Richthofen. His body was put in a casket on a gun carriage and taken to a cemetery. Most of the air force unit sent wreaths, and he was buried in proper Christian fashion...