Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1917 — Making Assurance Doubly Sure. [ARTICLE]

Making Assurance Doubly Sure.

The pupils in a certain class in hygiene were told to set down on paper the reason why, in their opinion, cremation was superior to burial. “Cremation is good,” wrote one little boy, “because the person might only be in a swoon, and if he is buried he cannot recover.”