A PICTURESQUE FUNERAL. _ A picturesque funeral was that oi Mynheer Van Klaos, one of the wond s greatest smokers. His coffin was Imsa with the fragrant cedar of cigar-boxes, his pipe, tobacco, flint, and steel woie olaced beside him for use wherever be mijzht go. The smokers of Rotterdam were invited to the funeral, and were presented with new pipes and ten pounds of good tobacco. They 8I " during the ceremony, and at the words, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, soiemnlv shook the ashes from thenpipes upon the coffin-lid. Mjnlie*v aisd at the ripe age of S3, which is exactlv the tame age as Dills Ue.it. This famous old tobacco has been giving satisfaction and solid comfort to manv thousands of men, and every day the "ranks of contented Dills Best smokers grow and grow. —3 The international ca'al® news apptaiir.s in ihis iwue is published by arrangement with the Australian PreM A»ociaJion and til* SsiKELatftM A
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20314, 13 August 1931, Page 9
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