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Show Cremation Growing In Favor. When Sir Henry Thompson, In tho year 1874, introduced In England tho suggestion of dlsinislng of the dead by means of cremation, his Idea was regarded re-garded with antipathy and met with a shudder. Hut tho matter was kept before be-fore tho public, and on Oct. 14 tho foundation stone was laid at Ilford Cemetery for the first crematorium in tho vast metropolis of London. Hull, Manchester, Liverpool and Woking preceded London In the building ol crematoriums. |