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...funeral of his mother, Mrs. Annie Brewer Bynner Wellington. Through Brooklyn's streets her funeral procession soberly rolled to Greenwood Cemetery, one of the world's largest burial grounds. When the hearse stopped at the general receiving vault, no cemetery employes appeared to take the casket. Poet Bynner's fellow-mourners carried it in themselves. There they discovered the 350 gravediggers, grass- cutters, gatekeepers, chauffeurs and other laborers, members of the C. I. O. United Cemetery Workers, had gone on strike in protest against layoffs...
...assassin went to his death in Beirut, the flag-draped casket bearing the body of Consul Marriner was met with military honors in Boston harbor. From there it was taken to Marriner's home in Portland, Me., where three days later it was buried...
James Haughton Woods '87 lives on in Japan. For, in a Japanese cemetery near Lake Biwa, stands a simple monument into which has been set a casket with a few of the belongings of this Professor of Philosophy (1913-1933) who died in Japan...
...Sunday morning in Little Rock, Joe Robinson was carried for the last time to his home, thence at midmorning to Arkansas' Capitol to lie in state, thence to the First Methodist Church where his funeral sermon was solemnly pronounced. Thunderheads were gathering as his casket was carried from the church. At Roselawn Cemetery his body was committed to the earth in the midst of an electric storm with lightning crashing and 2,000 mourners standing drenched in the rain...
...Delta Burial Corp. advertises in the Anniversary program: "Persons from the age of 21 to 45, for the small sum of 25? per month, are eligible for the following service: Semi Half Couch Casket and Box. Embalming, Robe and Hearse Service anywhere in the State of Mississippi. . . . We are in a position to have four funerals a day, with each 200 miles apart, and have each of them at the same hour...