DOCTOR'S LAST WISH
OBJECTION TO WOODEN COFFINS.
Dr. Kobert Esler, of 1 Queen's Road, Pockhim, formerly surgeon to the Metropolitan Police and author of a book, "Disposal of the Dead," who left estate valued at. 4)3135. stated in his will that ho wished to be clad in his evening dress suit buried in a pUin, porishnblo coffin in any cometery his executors might select.
Dr. Esler held strong views on the disposal of tlie dead, and objected lo tho use of wooden collins, believing that tho body should be buried in n perithablo coffin mads of wicker.
]To died at Jlerne Bay, and i.s (here was a difficulty in uroenring a perishable bapkot, ho was buried in au ordinary eoftiu and without his evenin,; suit.
Don't wait until Inftuonza grips you —get "NAZOL" now. Tho best safeguard against coughs, colds, chest, and throat soreness. CO doses Is. Gd.—Advt.
Woods' Great Peppermint Curt, For Coughs and Colds, never fails.—Advt.
Belgium's national debt charge, which was estimated at 220 million franca (nominally before the war, has now risen to GS7 millions (.£27,480,000), ■ ■
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 48, 20 November 1919, Page 8
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180DOCTOR'S LAST WISH Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 48, 20 November 1919, Page 8
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