Showing posts with label caskets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label caskets. Show all posts
Sunday, May 4, 2008

Choosing Their Own Caskets

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1895 People Often Express Their Preferences In the Matter of Style. "I never actually knew anybody who kept his coffin in his house,...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

"Specialties" at Beehive Store

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1899 All retailers like to have and announce their specialties ; and sometimes, it seems, such commercial specialties may take on a very gen...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

A Pet Cemetery

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1908 Where Pet Dogs and Cats Are Buried In State New York. — In a picturesque little spot situated on one of the most beautiful of the Harts...
Friday, June 8, 2007

Petrarch's Tomb Opened

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1874 A singular ceremony lately took place at Arqua, in North Italy, where Petrarch lies buried. The tomb of the poet was opened in the pres...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007

"Peeper" Is Suspected As Grave Robber

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New York, 1928 Cordon of State Police Thrown Around Baldwinsville Start Night Vigil Ghoul Mutilates Body After Opening Casket State troopers...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

A Sure Protection Against Body Snatchers

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Advertisement, 1879 MOOERS' Metallic Coffin Shields. A Sure Protection Against Body Snatchers. The above cut represents Mooer's Meta...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

Embalmer's Knife Flashing, Mom Insists Son "Alive"; He is!

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Rhode Island, 1888 COFFINED, BUT ALIVE Story of a Man Who had a Narrow Escape from Premature Burial Mauly Z. Corwin, of Providence, R. I., h...
Saturday, May 12, 2007

Doctor Resuscitates Girl at Her Funeral, Sits Up in Coffin

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Wisconsin, 1883 Sitting Up in Her Coffin At Black River Falls, Wis., the sensation of the day is the return to life of a young lady who to a...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

Man Falls Dead By His Mother's Coffin

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New York, 1899 Fifth Member of the Family to Die Within Three Months By the side of his mother's coffin John F. Murphy, a retired firema...
Wednesday, May 2, 2007

The Wrong Coffin — His Mother-in-Law and The Admiral

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1878 The Wrong Coffin A gentleman, who had been spending the winter at a village between Perpignan and Toulon, France, started for Marseille...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

Hundreds Fear Being Buried Alive

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1889 DREAD OF LIVE BURIAL. Hundreds Who Fear the Coffin Will Close on Them Alive. Many people who come to us have a dreadful fear that they ...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Undertaker Locked in Tomb With Many Corpses

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1920 Locked in Tomb With Many Corpses, Undertaker Has Thrilling Half Hour MILFORD, Mass. — Locked in a tomb with a score of corpses about, i...
Friday, April 13, 2007

Wife's Last Dollar Buys Executed Man's Coffin

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1922 Nashville, Tenn. — Asbury Fields, convicted of the murder of J. E. Pierce last summer, was electrocuted in the state prison here. Short...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Drunks Sentenced to Church Attendance

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1911 DRUNKS DISLIKE NEW RULE Cordele (Ga.) Mayor Has Novel Method of Cleaning Up Town. Cordele, Ga., June 6 — Disgusted by the action of May...