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...Lebanon, Ind., 24 years ago Joseph A. Sandlin decided on precisely how he wanted his funeral conducted. He assembled his tribe (lodge) of Red Men, lay down in his coffin to show how his body was to be placed. Photographs were made of each stage. The other day four old, rehearsed pallbearers studied the old pictures, buried provident Mr. Sandlin, 90, precisely, definitively...
...Royal corpse for the first time since they closed in 1916 on the body of Franz Josef, Austrian Emperor, King of Hungary, In the presence of a brilliant assemblage, including the Ministers of Spain and France, former Austrian Prime Minister Ignaz Seipel and a host of demoted nobility, the coffin entered the crypt. It was draped with the colors of Imperial Austria. On a yellow field the black, two-headed eagle of the Habsburgs screamed again...
Reburied. Charles S. Gilpin, Negro actor (Emperor Jones), buried May 12 but disinterred for more impressive burial in a silver-mounted coffin case, with chanting and eulogies. Said Actor Jesse A. Shipp (Green Pastures), oldtime fishing companion of Gilpin: "We have been criticized for disturbing the dead, but our friend was buried near a railroad track where the earth rumbled, and his bones could not rest in peace...
Divorced. William Haskell Coffin, illustrator, portraitist; by Frances Starr, famed Belasco-developed actress; in Reno...
SECONDS ANDOVER O'Neil, s.s. 3b., Kimball Ketchum, 3b. c.f., Coffin Ogden, r.f. 2b., Williamson Donaldson, 1b. s.s., Woodlock Des Roches, 2b. r.f. Batchelder Lupien, l.f. l.f., Mayer Gleason, l.f. l.b., Brown Sheldon, c. c., Wheeler Tobe or Sprague, p. p., Broaca...