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...delegation of War veterans called at the U. S. Embassy in Paris and asked the First Secretary to convey to U. S. Senator Borah a casket with strangely assorted contents. Said they in presenting the gift...
...Rotorua, N. Z., Admiral Robert E. Coontz, Commander of the U. S. Fleet, was presented by a native tribe, the Arawa Maoris, with a casket for President Coolidge. The formerly cannibalistic donors expressed the hope that a treaty for world peace between the U. S. and Great Britain would eventually find in their casket a snug resting place...
...from their mortuary parlors were the head morticians. They had entrusted to their apprentices and assistants the silk hats and sleek black coats which they, of all men, are sure to wear on weekdays. They, the master embalmers, had flocked in holiday host to the offices of the Chicago Casket Co. to discuss this whole business of snatching a living from the grave...
...body was then taken to Central Park, where it will lie in state for two weeks waiting for a special casket from Moscow; it will then be interred at Nanking. Military honors were paid to the dead leader at the funeral procession. Hundreds of people, including all the Ministers of foreign powers, were present...
...misinformation concerning crew is empty shadow. With such assurance and with the hearty interest of all undergraduates in the welfare of crew, the 1925 season opens auspiciously. May each crew candidate for the coveted positions have success measured in the words of the inscription on Portia's leaden casket: "As much as he deserves...