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...week in Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois, he lacked his usual retinue. Gone from their mortuary parlors were the head morticians. They had entrusted to their apprentices and assistants the silk hats and sleek black coats which they, of all men, are sure to wear on weekdays. They, the master embalmers, had flocked in holiday host to the offices of the Chicago Casket Co. to discuss this whole business of snatching a living from the grave...
...sequel has shown, however, that religious fanatics are bent on securing the full measure the law allows. The demon, Evolution, is to be banished to the outer darkness while the solid Bryan phalanx is to remain master of the inner darkness...
...General Robert Lee Bullard, onetime (Oct. 11, 1918-Apr. 15, 1919) Commander of the U. S. , Second Corps Area, cabled from his sick bed in Fort Totten Army Hospital: "Goodby, beloved comrade. Goodby, thou undaunted spirit." The General's Negro body servant walked alone and silently near his master's coffin. Many distinguished persons, including Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and Colonel H. H. Harjes of Morgan, Harjes et Cie., were, present...
Today he is a living example of the revolution which Mr. Edison has made possible in modern living -for he is President of the Commonwealth Edison Co., which furnishes all of Chicago's electric light, master of a great group of public utilities in the West -many of them grown up out of Mr. Edison's inventions -President of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and in general a magnate of the Middle West. He, with others-aids and witnesses of wholesale changes wrought by Edison inventions-did honor to the inventor.' Through it all a big white...
...earth below, Mrs. Kent was driving in an automobile equipped with radio. Of a sudden she heard her master's voice...