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Last week the War Department forbade the sort of interment that Mrs. Wiley wanted. She wished to erect a great monument. Regulations forbid any grave marker for enlisted men other than a plain stone of standard design. So Mrs. Wiley picked Rock Creek Cemetery near Washington for the burial. Then the War Department changed its Arlington rules for her. In the section called "Field of the Dead" she last week buried her husband with full military honors. On the plot she will put a large memorial, engraved: "Father of the Pure Food Laws...
...peak is dedicated, by grateful fellow citizens, in recognition of the public citizenship of Bernarr Macfadden, apostle of health, in his spectacular influence in arousing the nation to the benefits of life in nature's great outdoors." Proudly reported the Sacramento Bee last week-"CLIFF WILL BECOME HEALTH MONUMENT. . . . About 200 New Yorkers will attend the rites...
...Passed a bill creating a Colonial National Monument comprised of lands yet to be determined, but including parts of Yorktown Battlefield and lands & buildings in and around Williamsburg, Va. ¶ Passed the bill directing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate and report on the advisability of creating an upper Mississippi National Park...
...mortals ever dared to dream before." The "s" in "mortals" offended Mr. Fontaine. He hated its sibilance, knew that there was no "s" in Poe's original version. So Mr. Fontaine determinedly edited out the "s" with a chisel. A policeman arrested him for defacing the public monument...
Reburied. Abraham Lincoln II, son of the late President Robert Todd Lincoln of Pullman Co. Abraham Lincoln II died in London, aged 16, in 1890 while his father was Minister to Great Britain. He was buried in the national Lincoln monument at Springfield, Ill., beside his famed grandfather, his grandmother and his Uncles William ("Willie") and Thomas ("Tad"). He was reburied in Arlington National Cemetery beside his father...