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The Marine Band played dirges at the funerals of Harrison, Taylor and Lincoln; accompanied Garfield's body to Cleveland; played "Lead Kindly Light" and "Nearer My God To Thee" at McKinley's funeral, and "Lead Kindly Light" again at Harding's.
SAINT SATURNIN-Jean Schlumberger -Dodd, Mead. When old Madame Colombe dies peacefully in her bed at Saint Saturnin. her children Louis. Jourdaine, Nicholas speculate on the significance of her departure. None of them anticipates its most ghastly consequence: their father, deprived of his wife's tactful authority, begins a...
To the Bat'a funeral last week flew Boston Merchant Edward A. Filene, no vender of Bat'a shoes. Mr. Filene was at Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czechoslovakia when he heard the news.
Punctually at noon all Bat'a factory sirens began howling an eerie lament. Work ceased for the day. Again at 3 p. m. the sirens howled. In the factory yard a joint funeral service began for Thomas Bat'a and Pilot Heinrich Brouceck. Sixty thousand mourners, many of...
This condemnation from a hard-boiled politician of the Tammany stripe sent the Roosevelt crowd into a rage. Shrieked Senator Long: "Just the funeral march? the last screech of defeat! All Frank Hague knows is the road to Manhattan."