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POLITICAL NOTES: Hoosier

The erection of a tomb at Washington for the late Vice President Thomas R. Marshall awaits only a leader to collect the funds from the multitudes of his friends.

Said his townsman, Meredith Nicholson, famed author:

"Mr. Marshall had a horror of being buried in the ground. More than once, he expressed a deep-seated aversion to having his body rest in the earth. Only his family and a few of his closest friends knew this, but it was that feeling on his part that caused the family to place his body in the...

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