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John Milward Funeral Home Lexington, Ky.
William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, last week gave decisive publication to his wrath against certain English hymns which Roman Catholics have unwarily allowed into their funeral services. The specific hymn which His Eminence denounced was "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." It goes:
Dr. Francis Weld Peabody '03, widely known in the field of medicine, died yesterday morning after an illness of a year and a half at his home at 182 Brattle Street. The funeral will be held on Saturday at noon from King's Chapel in Boston.
* On the way from Buffalo to Washington in President McKinley's funeral train, Mark Hanna exploded: "I told William McKinley it was a mistake to nominate that wild man at Philadelphia. I asked him if he realized what would happen if he should die. Now look, that damned cowboy...
"The undertaking profession is overcrowded and the death rate is not high enough. . . . Last week in Baltimore there were only ten bodies to the divide . . . and three of these were children on whose funerals there is always a loss. . . ." So said one W. F. Guerke last week, at a convention...