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Show THOUSANDS PAY TRIBUTE Funeral of Francis Murphy Most. Nota ble Held In Los Angeles. L()S ANGELES, CaL, July S. The mosl notable funeral ever held ia (he city was thai, held today of Francis Murphy, the famous apostle of temperance. temper-ance. Thousands of citizens, ranging from the highest rank of civic irnpor-bance irnpor-bance to the lowest, joined in rendering render-ing homage to lie dead The national colors On all public buildings and scores of business houses bung at half- mast, their folds caught back with black bands of crepe Evidences of mourning were everywhere. Banked high in flowers, ferns and COUnteless floral pieces, and draped in a huge American flag, the casket, containing con-taining the remains of the dead apOB tie lay in state today between the hours Of 11 to 2 Paflt (he flowrrein bowered bier, thousands of citizens tiled for throe hours. Mr frank Dewitl Talmage, son of die eminent, divine, delivered the funeral fun-eral oration. Practically every clergyman clergy-man in the citi attended the Bervices. The city council came in a bod . and the mayor lent his presence. The harvesters har-vesters and members of the Gospel Tern perance union, wearing each .1 small blue ribbon, emblematic of the crusade, occupied a large portion of the lower floor of i he auditorium. |