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Washington Herald (1912) MAJ. BUTT' S PLACE NOT YET FILLED
President Taft Has Not Asked War Department to Fill Vacancy as Chief Aid --- President Taft has not yet asked the War Department to deta...
Washington Times (1912) MRS. CANDEE TELLS OF TRAGIC SCENES AS STEAMER SANK
Washington Woman Says Officers Demanded That Women Go First --- By GORDON MACKAY, Staff Correspondent --- NEW YORK, April ...
Washington Times (1912) STEERAGE SURVIVOR HERE TELLS OF STILL ANOTHER REAL HERO
Mary Glynn Declares Young Irishman Refused Seat in Lifeboat --- Maritime speed mania was the cause of the accident off the Newfoundland ...
Washington Herald (1912) PEUCHEN COMES BACK AT ISMAY
Charge of Negligence Preferred by Canadian Official Is Supported by Witness --- New York, April 20---Although J. Bruce Ismay branded the...
Washington Herald (1912) LICENSE ISSUED TITANIC SURVIVOR
English Girl Does Not Let Catastrophe Interfere with Her Original Plan --- New York, April 20---Saved from a watery grave when the Titan...
The Times (1937) DEATH NOTICE: BRUCE ISMAY
ISMAY---On Oct. 17, 1937, at his residence, 15, Hill Street, Mayfair, BRUCE, husband of FLORENCE ISMAY. Funeral service St. Paul's Knitsbridge, 2.30 ...
New York Times (1937) J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR
Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman o...
New York Times (1912) AMERICANS IN ROME
Mr. And Mrs. Millet at Villa Aurelia, Which is Being Modernized --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times...
New York Times (1912) MINIA REPORTS TWO BODIES
Ship Returning to Halifax---Patrick O'Keefe's Story of Rescue --- The White Star Line agent at Halifax wired the New York office yesterd...
New York Times (1912) SHOCK OF DISASTER KILLS WOMAN
BROCKTON, Mass., April 17---Miss Katherine E. Maguire, 50 years old, heartbroken by the news that her nephew, John E. Maguire, was among those probabl...
New York Times (1912) NATHAN STRAUS TOLD
That Isidor and Mrs. Straus Were Not Saved---Son Doesn't Know Yet --- A cablegram was sent yesterday to Nathan Straus, who is in Rome, b...
New York Times (1912) MARCONI CHEERED FOR WIRELESS FEATS
Modestly Gives Credit to Other Inventors and Speaks of Life Saving from Titanic --- FIRST LECTURE IN AMERICA --- Prof....
The Times (1937) MR. BRUCE ISMAY
AN ABLE SHIPOWNER --- Mr. Bruce Ismay, who died yesterday at his residence, 15, Hill Street, Mayfair, at the age of 74, was well known, ...
New York Times (1923) YOUNG VAIL SENTENCED TO PRISON IN CAPRI
But He and His Wife, Formerly Miss Guggenheim, Are Allowed to Leave After Appeal --- CAPRI, Italy, Oct. 18---Lawrence Vail, who married ...
New York Times (1912) DEATH NOTICE OF ARTHUR L. RYERSON, JR.
RYERSON---April 8, 1912. Arthur L., age 20 years, son of Arthur and Emily Borie Ryerson. Funeral services St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia, on Friday...
Philadelphia Inquirer (1954) MRS. POTTER DIES AT AGE OF 98
Mrs. Thomas Potter, Jr., honorary secretary of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Red Cross, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs...
New York Times (1923) WEIRD MISFORTUNES BLAMED ON MUMMY
Beautiful but Malignant Priestess Is Said to Resent Touching Her Coffin Lid --- IT IS IN BRITISH MUSEUM --- Officials Call...
New York Times (1932) LAWRENCE VAIL WEDS WRITER IN NICE, FRANCE
Marries Miss Kay Boyle at City Hall---His Former Wife Acts as Matron of Honor --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- ...
New York Times (1912) TAFT CONCERNED FOR BUTT
Chance of Major's Safety a Faint One, but President Holds to It --- WASHINGTON, April 16---The White House was not a cheerful place to-d...
New York Times (1912) ROEBLING IS EXCUSED FROM JURY
Special to The New York Times --- TRENTON, N. J., April 16---When the panel for the April term of the United States Grand Jury reported ...
New York Times (1912) TITANIC WRECK ECHO AT HOE LIBRARY SALE
Harry E. Widener, on Sunk Liner, Expected to Attend Part III. Sessions --- SAW BOOKS BEFORE SAILING --- Caxton "Golden Leg...
New York Times (1912) NEW VERSION OF BUTT'S TRIP
Was Passenger on Titanic at the Whim of Close Friend --- Richard B. Watrous, Secretary of the American Civic Association, with offices i...
New York Times (1912) VINCENT ASTOR AS HEAD OF HIS FAMILY
Would Probably Share $100,000,000 Estate With Stepmother in Event of His Father's Death --- IS NOT YET 21 YEARS OF AGE --- ...
Washington Times (1912) NO ALARM FELT WHEN STEAMER FIRST STRUCK
Passengers Came on Deck to Get View of Big Berg --- TERRIBLE SUFFERING IN THE LIFEBOATS --- Carpathia Gave Tenderest Care ...
New York Times (1900) YACHT ELEANOR'S LONG CRUISE
Mrs. James W. Martinez-Cardeza's steam yacht Eleanor has been prepared at Tebo's basin, South Brooklyn, for another of the many long voyages she has m...
New York Times (1900) STEAM YACHT ELEANOR SOLD
J. J. Hill Is the Purchaser of Mrs. Cardeza's Famous Pleasure Craft --- The rumored purchase of Mrs. James W. Martinez-Cardeza'a st...
New York Times (1900) NOTES FOR THE YACHTSMEN
Mrs. Charlotte D. M. Cardeza's steel screw bark Eleanor is being repainted and generally overhauled at Tebo's yard, South Brooklyn, preparatory to an ...
New York Times (1900) YACHTS AND YACHTSMEN
From present indications, John Jacob Astor's large steam yacht, the Nourmahal, will not be put in commission this year, at least not during ...
New York Times (1899) NEW YORK YACHT CLUB
New Members Admitted---Models for the Paris Exposition --- The adjourned third general meeting of the New York Yacht Club was held yeste...
New York Times (1898) NOTES OF THE YACHTSMEN
The following have recently been elected members of the Atlantic Yacht Club: J. Pierpont Morgan, Alexander King, Isaac Stern, James D. Smith, John J. ...
New York Times (1900) OUTING IN NEW HANDS
The Publication Purchased by Caspar Whitney and Ten Other Men --- Caspar Whitney, for many years connected with the Harpers as writer o...
Brooklyn Daily Times (1912) BAYSIDE'S LOSS IN DEATH OF HENRY B. HARRIS
BAYSIDE, L. I., April 17---All Bayside is saddened by the belief that Henry B. Harris, the theatrical manager, perished with the sinking of the Titani...
New York Times (1912) READS BULLETIN, COLLAPSES
C. J. E. Clayton Feared All His Family Had Perished --- As the details of the Titanic disaster were being thrown out by The Times bullet...
New York Times (1909) SEALED ASTOR PAPERS FILED
Rockland County Sends Them to Dutchess---Everything Secret --- Special to The New York Times --- POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Nov....
New York Times (1912) LORD ROTHES AWAITS WIFE
Was to Have Met Her at Pier When Titanic Arrived --- An intimate friend of Capt. Smith, a prominent shipping man, who was seen at the Pl...
New York Times (1912) JACQUES FUTRELLE, WRITER
The Author of "The Thinking Machine" and Many Short Stories --- Jacques Futrell is well known as a writer of fiction, having contributed...
New York Times (1912) PRESIDENT TAFT STUNNED
Wires White Star Line for News of Major Butt --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15---President Taft d...
New York Times (1912) BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM
Elected President of International Steam Pump Co. in 1909 --- Benjamin Guggenheim was born in Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 1865, the fifth of ...
New York Times (1912) CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS
Grand Trunk President Planned Great Canadian Transcontinental --- Charles Melville Hays, President of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pa...
New York Times (1912) HENRY B. HARRIS
Well-Known Theatrical Manager Who Has Won Many Successes --- Henry B. Harris, who leaped into prominence in the New York theatrical fiel...
New York Times (1912) FRANK D. MILLET'S CAREER
Noted Artist Famed as War Correspondent and Traveler --- Frank D. Millet, a noted artist and correspondent, was born at Mattapoisett, Mass.,...
Asbury Park Evening Press (1912) MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST
MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST ---------- Continued to Work Till Explosion Rent Titanic---Wife is Critically Ill ----------...
Asbury Park Evening Press (1912) MRS. GWINN IS NOT AT POINT OF DEATH
Wife of Titanic’s Mail Chief Feels Loss Keenly but is Not Ill ---------- Metropolitan newspapers this morning all published stor...
Asbury Park Evening Press (1912) GWINN FAMILY LEAVES SUDDENLY
Mrs. William L. Gwinn, whose husband, a postal clerk on the Titanic stood at his post trying to save the mails as the ship went down, left Asbury Park...
Rahway Daily Record (1912) WITH FLAGS AT HALF STAFF RAHWAY SHOWS HER SORROW
Honor to the dead who went down in the ill-fated Titanic is being is being paid in this city today. The flags on the police station and on all the pu...
Newark Evening News (1912) JUST TOLD SEA TOOK HUSBAND
---------- News that Gwinn Perished on Titanic Long Kept from Asbury Park Woman ---------- WAS MAIL CLERK ON LINER ...
Newark Evening News (1912) THREE STILL SUFFER FROM PERILS AND COLD
Still suffering from the hardships they endured, Miss Cornelia T. Andrews, Mrs. John C. Hogeboom and Miss Gretchen F. Longley, who survived the Titani...
Daily Enterprise (1912) LINER'S LAST MOMENTS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED
---------- Palmyra Resident, Titantic's [sic] Barber, Tells of Thrilling Experience; Shock on Striking Iceberg was Slight; Saw Officer Shoot Ma...
Camden Post-Telegram (1912) SURVIVOR HERE IN ROLLER CHAIR
Titanic’s Barber Tells of His Terrible Experience on Sinking Liner --- SAVED BY RAFT OF CAMP STOOLS --- Augustus H. Whitem...
Camden Post-Telegram (1912) TITANIC SURVIVOR AT ELKS' TO-MORROW
Gus Weikman, Ship's Barber, Will Tell Camden Lodge of His Experience --- Picked up by one of the lifeboats after being blown overboard b...
Camden Post-Telegram (1912) ISMAY PRAISED BY TITANIC SURVIVOR
Ship's Head Barber Tells Camden Elks of His Thrilling Experience. --- BLAMES DISASTER ON WIRELESS JEALOUSY --- Bruce Ismay...
Newark Evening News (1912) BURLINGTON COUNTY MAN WAS BLOWN INTO WATER
The story of his remarkable escape was told by Augustus H. Weikman, of Palmyra, Burlington County, when he alighted from the Carpathia last night. We...
Rahway Daily Record (1912) ARTHUR KEEFE MAY BE MISSING ON LINER TITANIC
Rahway people, while horrified at the astounding disaster which overtook the gigantic ocean liner Titanic and at the terrible loss of life which accom...
Rahway Daily Record (1912) ARTHUR KEEFE ONE OF THE PASSENGERS ABOARD THE TITANIC
New York Papers This Morning Give His Name In List of Passengers Embarking at Southampton ---------- FEAR HE IS AMONG MISSING ---...
Rahway Daily Record (1912) STORY OF DISASTER TO MAMMOTH LINER FROM A SURVIVOR
William H. Randolph of This City Hears Sad Account of the Wreck From His Employer’s Widow ---------- MRS. WALTER DOUGLAS SAFE ---...
Rahway Daily Record (1912) SERVICES FOR ARTHUR KEEFE
Solemn Requiem High Mass Is Celebrated At St. Mary's Chrch Today ---------- In memory of Arthur Keefe, who went down when the st...
Rahway Daily Record (1912) NO TRACE IS FOUND OF KEEFE'S BODY
Survivor of Titanic Wreck Tells of Being With Him In a Life Boat ---------- It had for several days been hoped that among the bo...
Newark Evening News (1912) CLINGING TO HOPE SON DIDN’T SAIL ON TITANIC
Although nothing has been heard from W. Hull Botsford, the member of the Orange Y. M. C. A., whose name appeared on the list of passengers on the Tita...
New York Times (1912) STRAUS A FAMOUS MERCHANT
Member Both of R. H. Macy & Co. and Abraham & Straus --- Isidor Straus, who, with Mrs. Straus, was aboard the Titanic, was born in Rheni...
Philadelphia Inquirer (1912) WILDWOOD BUSINESS MAN AMONG MISSING
Special to The Inquirer --- WILDWOOD, N. J., April 17---Never was so much sympathy expressed by the residents of Five Mile Beach as over...
New York Times (1931) RED CROSS BOARD FILLS VACANCIES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (AP)---Chief Justice Hughes presided today as the incorporators of the American Red Cross elected five new members to fill vacancie...
New York Times (1958) SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DIES
Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, April 23---Mrs. Olive Potter Crolius, who with her mother, the late Mrs. Thomas Potter J...
New York Times (1954) TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES
Mrs. Lilly Potter, 98, Was ‘Grand Old Lady’ of Red Cross --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2---Mrs....
New York Times (1910) COL. THOMAS POTTER, JR.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 2---Col. Thomas Potter, Jr., a wealthy oilcloth manufacturer of Philadelphia, died here to-night. Mrs. Potter, Wilson Pott...
New York Times (1946) COL. WILSON POTTER
Big-Game Hunter Obtained Heads for Smithsonian Institution --- PHILADELPHIA, June 12 (AP)---Col. Wilson Potter, big-game hunter and Univ...
New York Times (1910) DYING MAN’S SON FOUND
Potter Coming from Alaska to Atlantic City to See His Father --- ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 28---For more than a month the family of Col...
New York Times (1939) MRS. POTTER GETS GIMBEL AWARD
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28 (AP)---Mrs. Thomas Potter Jr., an active Red Cross worker since 1916, has received the eighth annual Gimbel Award presented to “...
New York Times (1936) DEATH NOTICE: ALLEN CROLIUS
CROLIUS---At Germantown, Pa., May 3, 1936, Allen Potter, husband of Olive Potter Crolius, son of Martha S. Crolius of Flushing, L. I. Services Tuesda...
Evening Bulletin (1912) HAD PREMONITION OF DISASTER
Nurse in Home of Mrs. J. B. Earnshaw Distrusted Early Despatches of Safety of Passengers --- A curious instance of the premonitions whic...
Evening Bulletin (1912) MRS. BREWE COLLAPSES
Widow 0f Physician Lost on Titanic in Serious Condition at Her Home Here --- Crushed under the news of the death of he...
Evening Bulletin (1912) TITANIC SURVIVOR WRITES OF HORROR TO FRIEND HERE
“Like Scene on Stage," Says Dr. Alice Leeder in Letter to Mrs. Sarah Babcock --- One of the most interesting accounts of the Titanic dis...
Evening Bulletin (1965) GRETCHEN LEOPOLD, TTITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES ABOARD SHIP
Mrs. Gretchen Longley Leopold, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in the North Atlantic in 1912, died yesterday aboard the SS. Constitution in t...
Evening Bulletin (1937) DEATH NOTICE OF JAMES R. MCGOUGH
McGOUGH---July 24, 1937, JAMES R., husband of the late Mary J. McGough and son of Catherine and the late Thomas McGough. Relatives and friends are in...
Evening Bulletin (1937) MRS. A. H. RICE DIES IN PARIS AT 69
Wife of Explorer and Surgeon Was Widow of G. D. Widener --- Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, the former Eleanor Elkins, of this city, died ...
Evening Bulletin (1912) STEERAGE VICTIM LIVED HERE
Friends Are Taking up Fund for Relief of the Widow of Nathan Goldsmith --- Nathan Goldsmith was lost when the Titanic went down, his wif...
Evening Bulletin (1958) MRS. CROLIUS DIES; TITANIC SURVIVOR
Mrs. Olive Potter Crolius, widow of Allen Crolius, died Monday at her home in Alden Park Manor, Germantown. She was 70. Mrs. Crolius a...
Evening Bulletin (1912) WILLIAM CROTHERS DULLES NOW IS GIVEN UP AS LOST
Cousin of Philadelphia Lawyer Says His Absence From Carpathia Shows He Didn't Survive --- On learning that William Crothers Dulles, a la...
Evening Bulletin (1912) POSTPONE RYERSON FUNERAL
Services for Youth Killed by Motor Deferred Pending Arrival of Relatives Rescued From Titanic --- The funeral of young Arthur L. Ryerson...
Evening Bulletin (1912) HAD PREMONITION OF HARM
Annie Ward, Cardeza Maid, Saved from Titanic, Didn't Want to Go Aboard --- Miss Annie Ward, maid to Mrs. J. W. M. Cardeza, of Germantown...
New York Times (1897) FORCED MR. ASTOR TO DISMOUNT
Cyclists Will Be Shut Out from Ferncliff as a Result --- POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., May 1---The fine roads of Ferncliff, the home of the Astor...
New York Times (1987) S. MARSHALL KEMPNER DEAD; LONGTIME INVESTMENT BANKER
S. Marshall Kempner, an investment banker, died of congestive heart failure Saturday at his home in San Francisco. He was 88 years old. ...
New York Times (1912) COL. JOHN JACOB ASTOR
Wealthy Society Man and an Author and Inventor as Well --- Col. John Jacob Astor, the American head of the Astor family, has held a prom...
North American (1912) WOMAN IN WILMINGTON TELLS OF THE DISASTER
Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILMINGTON, Del., April 19---Miss Emily Rugg, 20 years old, of the Isle of Guernsey,...
North American (1912) SEVEN WILKES-BARRE PERSONS ARE MISSING
Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 18---Charles Thomas, a small storekeeper of this city; Mrs. Josep...
North American (1912) FEAR BOYERTOWN GIRL, MISSIONARY, WAS LOST
READING, Pa., April 21---Mr. and Mrs. James B. Funk, parents of Miss Annie C. Funk, a missionary to Janjgir, Central Province, India, have given up ho...
North American (1912) WOMAN MISSIONARY MAY BE AMONG LOST
POTTSTOWN, Pa., April 18---The name of Miss Annie Funk, a returned missionary from India and a daughter of James Funk, a well-to-do grist mill owner a...
North American (1912) NORTH WALES PEOPLE NOT AMONG SURVIVORS
Messages received yesterday by James W. Van Billiard, burgess of North Wales, indicated that there is little hope for the safety of his son, Austin Va...
North American (1912) U. S. HIS LIFE GOAL, HE WENT DOWN ON TITANIC
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 20---After waiting for years for his relatives to save enough money to pay his passage from England to this city, where he wa...
North American (1912) NORTH WALES VICTIMS OF THE TITANIC ARRIVE
NORTH WALES, Pa., May 7---The bodies of Austin Van Billiard and one of his children, lost on the Titanic, which were picked up at sea by the Mackay-Be...
North American (1912) BARBER THROWN FROM TITANIC AS IT SANK
Charles Weikman, of Palmyra, N. J., to Quit Sea After 750 Voyages --- HE CLUNG TO WRECKAGE --- A graphic account of the si...
New York Times (1902) COL. ASTOR’S $300 RIDE
Paid the Owner of a Horse Which Was Frightened to Death by His Automobile --- Special to The New York Times --- POUGHKEEPS...
New York Times (1899) COL. ASTOR READY TO SERVE
Would Willingly Go Out to the Philippines---Does Not Approve of W. W. Astor's Course --- Special to The New York Times --- ...
New York Times (1908) COL. ASTOR IMPORTS A NEW BREED OF DOG
Animal, Which Society Is Expected to Take Up, Is a Cross Between a Bear and a Hound --- GROWLS AT CUSTOMS MEN --- Mrs. O....
New York Times (1955) EDWARD MAYER IS DEAD
World War I Air Veteran Had Been Investment Broker --- Special to The New York Times --- SCRANTON, Pa., June 10---Edward B...
New York Times (1911) MRS. GUGGENHEIM'S DANCE
Debutante, Miss Benita Guggenheim, Receives with Mother at St. Regis --- Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim of 763 Fifth Avenue gave a dance last ...
Washington Herald (1912) ARCHIE PUT ME IN A LIFEBOAT
Miss Marie Young, of Washington, Tells of Aid's Heroism and Calmness --- By MISS MARIE YOUNG --- Musical tutor to the youn...
New York Times (1909) MRS. ASTOR OBTAINS DIVORCE QUIETLY
No Names Mentioned in Proceedings Before Justice Mills, Who Grants Interlocutory Decree --- ALL PAPERS IN CASE SEALED --- ...
Newark Evening News (1912) HENRY BLANK DECLARES CURIOSITY SAVED HIM
It was the desire of Henry Blank, a jeweler of this city, who lives in Glen Ridge, to find out what caused the shock to the Titanic when she struck th...
Newark Evening News (1912) FORMER SECRETARY OF PATERSON Y. W. C. A. LOST
PATERSON, April 22---Returning from India, where she was engaged in missionary work, Miss Annie Funk, for several years secretary of the Young Women’s...
Newark Evening News (1912) MR. FUNK STILL HOPES SISTER MISSED TITANIC
Special Service of the NEWS NEWTON, April 23---Persevering in the hope that Miss Annie Funk, formerly of Paterson, did not go down with...
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