Word: burial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost of burial would impose still one more burden on the impoverished masses. . . . Even now with the greatest of difficulty are these able to provide decent burials for their loved ones...
Which brings up our last point-that the American funeral is a civilized institution that brings beauty and solace to the living as well as decent burial to the dead. The average family has a funeral about once in 15 years. Is its average annual expenditure extravagant...
...their tax receipts and of thereby being able to pay their debts, and at the same time to build, equip and endow hospitals for all communities, thereby benefiting humanity instead of satisfying our own sentimental vanity, I propose that a tax of 100% be placed on the cost of burial, starting with the wreath or what have you after death, through to the finished and marked grave...
Horatio S. White '73, Professor of German, Emeritus, died Wednesday afternoon at his home in Cambridge, after a short illness. Funeral services will be held at the home, 29 Reservoir Street, at noon today, with burial in Mt. Auburn Cemetery...
...culture in the mountains is different. Here the people lived in caves, painted their pottery, and practiced "secondary burial. The archeological material in this area is seant because the caves where the remains are found have been sacked by the natives as a source for curios. It is the opinion of Mr. Kidder that the caves of the mountainous region were used as places perhaps of refuge by the people of the plains and not continually inhabited...