Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pack on his back. . . . This peddler became a great and successful merchant and when he died, his will gratefully gave his large estate to this banker. When Mr. Harris was buried, nearly every man, woman and child in his county came to drop a flower on his red clay grave. Replace such a man by a city clerk awaiting every morning a circular letter or his master's voice out of a loud speaker's horn? God forbid...
Finally, with another swarming week-end at hand, William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, twice a visitor to the grave, decided to call a halt. Announced his secretary, Monsignor Francis A. Burke: "The situation at the cemetery in Maiden has become such that an investigation is being made into the whole question which has developed there during the past month." Added Monsignor Burke: The gates of the cemetery would remain closed except for funerals until further notice. Iron workers under the direction of the Cardinal's brother Edward, who is superintendent of the cemetery, fixed stout extra braces...
...reports of miraculous cures increased in number if not in clarity. One Louis Hanover begged more than $100 from the sympathetic crowd, flung down his crutches on the grave, cried out that he was cured, ran away. The policemen caught him, discovered his alias was Samuel Cohen. He was sent to the work farm for four months. Anna Bellard of Adams, Mass., made out an affidavit at the cemetery office saying she had walked and talked for the first time in five years. Twelve-year-old Rita Averman of Manhattan, blind since infancy, thought she saw light and moving shapes...
...Royer, 35, of Manchester, N. J., visited the grave, went home and died of a tumor...
Last week the police department of New Haven, Conn., was constrained to publish this grave announcement: "Stolen...