Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-09 | Page 3 | Buried in Coffin Made by Himself |

Type	issue
Date	1914-03-09
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Buried in Coffin Made by Himself
Type	article
Date	1914-03-09
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	3
OCR Text	Show BURIED IN COFFIN MADE BY HIMSELF MACON. . Mo., March S. Arlington Simpson. 2 year old, was burled at. Cal-lao. Cal-lao. Mo., today in a coffin made of walnut wal-nut lumber, cut and prepared bv him. Simpson, who died Saturday at his farm near here, made preparations for his funeral fu-neral months ago. getting ready the materials ma-terials for his casket and arranging for its manufacture, in order, ho said, "to defeat the coffin trust." Carpenters worked last night to put the coffin together. Recently Simpson had made a number of coffins that he offered at cost "to aid poor people." ho announced, an-nounced, "In evading the burial combine."
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