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...Dean of the Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral agreed to permit a memorial tablet to the late John Singer Sargent n the crypt, where the remains of many famous men, including Lord Nelson...
Upon the chairs sat notables, upon a platform more notables. Across the boulder rippled two U. S. flags, behind which, fixed in the stone, a bronze tablet mutely announced: "On this site-1876-1882-Thomas Alva Edison began his work of service for the world. . . . This tablet is placed by the Edison Pioneers...
Near Mr. and Mrs. Edison on the platform was John W. Lieb of the New York Edison Co. He dedicated the tablet and presented it to Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey as a state monument, the latter accepting after Mrs. Edison had unveiled it. President John G. Hibben of Princeton then perorated, with interruptions by a rumbling freight train and a youthful Edisonian who leapt to the fore to declare he would never go to college.*Samuel Insull terminated the speechmaking...
...trip north Captain MacMillan took with him a tablet given by the National Geographic Society to commemorate the death of several scientists far north in Greenland on Cape Sabine in 1887. This he left, with instructions to the Esquimaux never to touch...
...from the newspapers that you propose to place a tablet in Tolmezzo to the memory of my sojourn there 18 years ago. Please dedicate the money collected to some scholastic charity. I have no desire of being transformed into marble before my time. Try again...