Bingham Bulletin | 1920-09-03 | Page 3 | Ten Thousand at Canary's Funeral

Ten Thousand at Canary's Funeral Kwf j-Ml Ten thousand residents of Newark, N. J., turned out to witness the Strangest funeral procession ever held In that, or possibly any other city of the country. "Jlmmle," a canary pet of Emllio Russomanno, a Newark cobbler, cob-bler, was being burled with honors. There was a band that played the funeral dirge, a white hearse, sllk-llned coffin and carriages for the mourners. "Jlmmte's" funeral cost Russomanno (200, but the cobbler said It was the last he could do for his late-lamented pet, and he considered the money well pent.