DEAD MAN’S VOICE
HEARD AT HIS CREMATION PARIS, Oct. a. To the sound of bis own voice, M. P. N. Roinard, tho Norman poet, whs cremated here this afternoon. A record which ho had specially registered for the ceremony was played on a gramophone beside the furnace. This self-made funeral oration, con sisting of a short poem, and ending with a few philosophical lines on death, was heard by ail tho mourners in obedience to the poet’s dying wish.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17452, 29 December 1930, Page 5
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79DEAD MAN’S VOICE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17452, 29 December 1930, Page 5
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