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...corpse, a believer will say that the soul is immortal, but both agree that after death, the body is just a worthless piece of flesh. Why then, give this 98? worth of lifeless meat an all-metal casket costing thousands of dollars, an expensive monument, a shower of floral wreaths and a long line of hired cars filled by hired mourners...
...laid down their tools, left their jobs. Like New York's Mayor LaGuardia, conscientious Mayor Rossi is of Italian parentage. Born in Volcano, Calif, in 1878, he got his start in life ten years later by delivering flowers in San Francisco, rose to be president of big Pelicano Rossi Floral Co. He got his start in politics in 1914 when the late "Sunny Jim" Rolph, then Mayor of San Francisco, appointed him to the city's Playground Commission. When Mayor Rolph got to be Governor in 1930 he appointed Florist Rossi to the mayoralty. Mayor Rossi survived by a narrow...
...funeral chapel at Lankwitz's Park Cemetery in Berlin went in full uniform with all his medals General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. who was the Reichswehr's brilliant commander under Chancellor von Schleicher. Floral tributes rolled up by the truckload and Military Chaplain Schleigel was striding resolutely up to begin the service when he was nabbed by Secret Police...
Next morning there was a dog show in progress on Second Street and just before noon the Floral Parade started, reviewed by King Frank and Queen Octavia, who were holding up nicely. The procession was hardly over before the town's Big Businessmen staged a Chamber of Commerce luncheon back at the Peabody...
This interest first caused complications when Mr. Ballantine was living in an apartment on Brattle Street. He was so anxious to have some sort of garden that he devised the scheme of placing plants on the fire escape to form a floral display. It was alright until the fire department demanded that they be immediately removed under the penalty of instant arrest...