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...half years ago, funeral services were held at the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago for a great reformer of a great reform era. Two little boys and two little girls stood up, pointed to the coffin, recited: "Miss [Lucy Page] Gaston, we thank you for what you have done for us," and then repeated the "Clean Life Pledge" which Miss Gaston had taught. Miss Gaston's body was cremated, according to her wishes...
Over a thousand Belgians braved a raging blizzard in Brussels last week, trudged on foot four miles behind a coffin draped with the flags of Mexico and Belgium...
Lady of sadness, Death came to her in a white wintry robe. Eight young officers bore her coffin to the royal crypt in the Laeken Cháteau, near Brussels. Albert, King of the Belgians, and the Royal Family paced behind it slowly to the sad measures of Chopin...
Died. Anson Wood Burchard, 62, vice chairman of the General Electric board of directors, at the home of Mortimer L. Schiff, Manhattan; of acute indigestion. He helped the late Charles Albert Coffin plan G. E.'s policies...
Another nail has been driven into the coffin of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. At a meeting of its Executive Committee last Sunday, the I. C. A. A. A. A., the strongest collegiate administrative body now functioning, gave an unqualified vote of support to the American Olympic Committee and disapproved of the actions of the N. C. A. A. and its affiliated bodies. Following on the footsteps of the attacks on the A. A. U. and the Olympic body by the N. C. A. A. and the Y. M. C. A., the action...