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Presentation of the Straus Trophy for Intramural athletics and trophies in Tennis, Baseball, and Crew were made to Kirkland House at dinner last night. William J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, handed the large silver urn to Walter E. Clark '03, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, and Master of the House, after a short speech...
...cricket, announced that the body would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. Any chance that Britishers would ever stop relishing this grisly little quip was effectively destroyed when England's dashing Ivo Bligh, who captained a team that beat Australia the following year, brought back an urn full of real ashes. He explained that when, after the final match at Melbourne, English ladies had celebrated the victory by running out onto the field and setting fire to the stumps, he had carefully collected the remains. Currently, the ashes imported by dashing Ivo Bligh are in the Trophy...
...this anniversary (Feb. 22) of Sherman's visit to my ancestral Mt. Hope here at Ridgeway my great aunts, aged 90 and 80 years, tell me of his soldiers' taking off all the silver that was not buried including a silver urn that had come to the family from General Francis Marion, "the Swamp Fox." This Yankee soldier beat the handsome silver vessel against an early blossoming plum tree until it was flat and would fit into his saddle...
...Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Electoral College (president, Mathew H. McCloskey Jr., Philadelphia contractor) heard Governor George H. Earle declare that all this electoral nonsense was out of date, just like state's Rights. For Roosevelt & Garner, 36 gilt-edged cards in a green glass urn...
...dispose of a dead body decently costs for the undertaking $35 to $1,000; cremation, urn and a niche in a columbarium $50 to $10,000; a single grave lot, seldom more than $50; a modest headstone $50. A few crematists, to popularize their profession, are charging only $50 to perform all disposal functions from death bed to hole-in-the-wall. Cremation in a modern oil furnace takes only 90 minutes...