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Show i Book of Comfort for Mourners. j Quite a successful business by preparing pre-paring obituary albums has been built up by a New York man. He has 1,500 daily newspapers from different dif-ferent cities of the country, and clips from them obituary notices. Then he approaches surviving relatives to see If they will not buy an album prepared from these notices, and the letters of condolence they may have received. He has fixed prices for everything. Each obituary clipping is 5 cents. Telegrams and cards are 10 cents. Mrs. John W. Mackay has two or three albums prepared from the notices no-tices about her husband. There were over 6,000 clippings about him. Samuel Sam-uel D. Babcock and Bert Reiss were also subjects for voluminous albums. |