Evening Star, Washington DC, October 20, 1907
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The Tacoma Times, Washington, September 26, 1917
This was meant to be heartening?
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Polite Life; or, What is Right in Etiquette and the Social Arts, 1895
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, June 30, 1901
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, August 11, 1907
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, May 19, 1910
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Evening Star, Washington DC, April 23, 1907
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The San Bernardino County Sun, California, March 30, 1929
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, July 12, 1896
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 11, 1896
The room that you enter is vault-like and filled with coffins.
The undertaker-waiters call out in sad tones: “Welcome to death,” and “Choose your coffin.”
Having chosen your coffin and ordered your poison (probably beer), the waiter brings it to you, repeating some such formula as:
“Here is something to finish you off - a drink made from microbes and grave worms.”
All around you hear the undertaker-waiters repeating their dreadful phrases: “Welcome to death.” “Here is something to poison you.” “The dead cannot laugh.” “This will make you rot quickly.”