Two white Percheron horses trotted over tar bumps and metal bridges as they carried a wooden hearse through the streets of Brooklyn Friday morning. The 1800s clashed with the 21st century when F.G.

Hearse manufacturers -- James Cunningham, Son & Co., Rochester, New York -- Crane & Breed, Cincinnati, Ohio -- Merts & Riddle, Ravenna, Ohio -- George L. Brownell ...

LEWISBURG -- Although the passages were 120 years old, they still evoked emotion from a band of local residents Saturday who honored the memory of Eli Slifer, an astute 19th-century businessman and ...

THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FUNERAL DIRECTING (636 pp.)—Robert W. Habenstein & William M. Lamers—Bulfin Printers ($5). Death on the American Plan is practiced in a temple of make-believe known as the ...

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