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Source: New York Times Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “The Buffalo Undertaker Explains” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: New York, New York Date of publication: 19 September 1901 Volume number: 51 Issue number: 16131 Pagination: 2 |
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| “The Buffalo Undertaker Explains.” New York Times 19 Sept. 1901 v51n16131: p. 2. |
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| William McKinley (remains: condition, treatment, etc.). |
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The Buffalo Undertaker Explains
CANTON, Ohio, Sept. 18.—Among those at the Court House to-day, while the body of the late President lay in state, was the Buffalo undertaker who embalmed the body and came on here to transfer his duties to the local undertaker. He had received a dispatch from his business assistant at Buffalo, saying that some comment was being made concerning the haste with which the casket was closed, owing to the condition of the embalming. He stated, however, that the condition of the body after the autopsy made it impossible to properly perform the usual offices of embalming, and he asked, in justice to himself and his assistants, that this fact be stated on his authority.