Julie Dowen

An Encyclopedia Titanica member since 12th May 2004 Julie Dowen has added 70 items to Encyclopedia Titanica.


Worcester Evening Post	ASPLUND FAMILY TITANIC PASSENGERS IT IS FEARED Charles Asplund, a former resident of Worcester; a six year old son, Carl, and another son two years old, are believed to have been included among the victims of the Titanic disaster. Mrs.Asplund and three other children. Felix, 13 years o...	19th April 1912
Worcester Evening Post	NO HOPE FOR MORE SURVIVORS ST. JOHNS , N.F. April 16.- All hope that any of the passengers or members of the crew of the Titanic, other than those on the Carpathia, are alive was abandoned this afternoon. All the steamers which have been cruising in the vi...	16th April 1912
Worcester Evening Post	MARINE DISASTER CAUSED WEAKNESS IN SECURITIES London, April 16- The disaster to the Titanic caused a slight weakness today in gilt-edged securities on the stock exchange on sales by underwriters. The International mercantile mar...	16th April 1912
	WALTER C. PORTER GRAVESITE Walter C. Porter's Family Gravesite...
	WALTER C. PORTER HEADSTONE Walter C. Porter's headstone...
The Evening Post	TITANIC MOVING PICTURES BARRED IN BRIDGEPORT Bridgeport, Conn.- Superintendent of police Birmingham yesterday issued an order prohibiting the exhibition of so-call...	2nd May 1912
	LILLIAN, SELMA AND FELIX ASPLUND 1912 Lillian, Selma and Felix Asplund 1912...
	WALTER C. PORTER Walter C. Porter...
The Evening Post	LEAPS FROM LINER'S DECK. Major Walker Takes His Life at Sea ...	20th April 1912
The Evening Post	BRITISH INQUIRY INTO TITANIC TRAGEDY BEGINS Based on 26 Questions and Much Like That of Our Senate LONDON, May 2 – Lord Mersey in his capacity as wreck commissioner and five assessors who ...	2nd May 1912
The Evening Post	COL. ASTORS BODY IS TAKEN THROUGH CITY The body of John Jacob Astor, one of the victims of the Titanic disaster, passed through Worcester this morning from Portland, ...	2nd May 1912
The Evening Post	THE SAD “MIGHT HAVE BEENS” Out of the fragmentary and disjointed reports of the survivors of the Titanic tragedy loom the big facts that compel the action on which congress has promptly engaged not only for thorough investigation of the affair but for formulatio...	19th April 1912
The Evening Post	HOLDING BACK FACTS OF DISASTER STIRS CRITICISM Charges ranging from indifference to deliberate suppression of news are being made against the White Star officials on both sides of the Atlantic . As ground for these charges one needs to go back only to the rapid sequ...	18th April 1912
The Evening Post	MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC DISASTER The terrible tragedy of the Titanic, even though it is possible to hope that fuller information may mitigate it, presents several mysteries. Whence and how came the reports spread everywhere yesterday that the passengers had ...	16th April 1912
The Evening Post	MASSACHUSETTS VICTIMS OF THE TITANIC TRAGEDY George Q Clifford of Stoughton, president of Belcher Last company, Herbert Henry Hilliard of 42 Hichorn street, Brighton Timothy J.,...	20th April 1912
	WALTER C. PORTER
Worcester Telegram	TO FIND BODIES The Parisian steamed through much he??? field of ice looking for passengers from the ill-fated ship. No life rafts or bodies were sighted among the floating wreckage, which covered a large area. The Parisian reports ...	17th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	3500 SACKS OF MAIL ON TITANIC NEW YORK, April 16- Postmaster Edward M. Morgan stated today that the White Star liner Titanic had on board 3500 sacks of mail. It is not likely, he said that the mails were saved because during the few hours that the vessel floated after running int...	17th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	TITANIC INSURED FOR $5,000,000 LONDON, April 15- The Titanic was insured for $5,000,000. No definate information is obtainable as to the amount of valuables on board but it is generally understood that the vessel took diamonds consigned to dealers whose estimated value is as high ...	16th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	GAZETTE STAFF MAN ON CARPATHIA'S PIER Gives Description of Scenes on Pier Silence Most Oppressive Even Crowd and City Hushed By Homer J. Wheaton Gazette Staff Reporter New York, April 19- News of the Titanics wreck was flashed to the wor...	19th April 1912
Worcester Magazine	WALTER C. PORTER, 46 YEARS, 11 MO. AND 2 DAYS OLD OF S. PORTER & CO., DROWNED AT SEA. Worcester's Toll in Titanic Disaster Walter C. Porter, of the Samuel Porter Company, a Member of this Board on Ill-fated Ship, Returning from European Business Trip. His Body Found by Crew of Mackay-Bennett after the Mighty Ocean Liner...	May 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	BE BRITISH, MY MEN CAPT. SMITH'S ORDER WASHINGTON, April 19- But for the unparalled self-sacrifice and heroism of Capt. Smith and the Titanic's officers, the sea would have claimed an even greater toll when the gigantic ship went down. From the bridge, Capt. Smith called through his megap...	20th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	PRAISES HEROISM OF THE SAILORS NEW YORK, April 19- Heroism of the English sailors who went down with the ill-fated Titanic was the one thing which most impressed Paul Cheveret, the Canadian sculptor, who left the steamship in one of the first boats lowered. He said that there was...	20th April 1912
Worcester City Directory	WORCESTER CITY DIRECTORY 1908 Porter PORTER, SAMUEL & CO. (W.C.Porter and W.E.Biglow), last manufs. 25 Union Walter C. (S.Porter & Co.), 25 Union, house 10 Lenox ...	1908
Worcester Evening Gazette	LANDING MOST PATHETIC SIGHT New York, April 19. Worcester Evening Gazette. Worcester, Mass. Have just left Cunard docks after witnessing arrival of Titanic's rescued passengers on the Carpathia. It was the most pathetic and tr...	20th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	SMITH CONFIDENT OF SHIPS STRENGTH Commander of Titanic Believes Liner Practically Unsinkable Says Flushing, L.I. Friend NEW YORK, April 17,- The night before Capt. E.G. Smith of the Titanic started for Europe to take command of the liner, he dined with Mr. & Mrs. W. P....	18th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	SHOCK OF LOSS PROVES FATAL Brockton Woman Dies Soon After Being Informed That Nephew Is Among Titanic's Victim's Brockton, April 17- Miss Katherine E. Maguire, aged 50, heartbroken by the news that her nephey [sic], John E. Maguire, was among those probaly lost...	18th April 1912
Worcester City Directory	WALTER C. PORTER'S LAST MANUF. COMPANY S.Porter Directory Ad 1907...	1909
	CARL & SELMA ASPLUND Carl & Selma Asplund...
Worcester Telegram	NAME NOT ON LIST BUT WOMAN IS SAFE Mrs. Edgar Meyer Wires New York That She Is Returning on Carpathia and That Her Husband Is Missing NEW YORK, April 17.- A wireless message was received today by relatives of Mrs Edgar Meyer, daughter of the late Andrew Saks, reporting ...	18th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	CINCINNATI GETS MESSAGE Articles...	18th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	NEVER NEAR TITANIC Article...	18th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	FROM POPE AND KING Article...	18th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	NO SIGN OF WRECK Article...	18th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	BOSTON MAN ON FRANCONIA REPORTS COMMUNICATING WITH CARPATHIA Article...	18th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	STORM STOPS NEWS: SABLE ISLAND COMMUNICATES BRIEFLY WITH THE CARPATHIA. Article...	18th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	MRS ABBOTT IS STILL IN HOSPITAL New York, April 19.- Mrs. Rose Abbott, of Providence, R.I., who was among the survivors is now in the New York hospital suffering with contusions of the legs. She will be able to leave the institution in a couple of days....	20th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	STILL PLAYING AS WATER CREEPS UP New York, April 19- Mrs. John Murray Brown of Acton, Mass, who with her sister, Mrs. Robert C. Cornell and Mrs. E.D. Appleton, was saved, was in the last life-boat to get safely away from the Titanic. "The band played marching from dec...	20th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	REPORT FUTRELLE SAFE London Hears Boston Author Is on Board Carpathia. London, April 17.-The list of survivors of the Titanic disaster as given out by the White Star line offices, contains the names of both Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, Boston. Previous l...	18th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	FUTRELLE MET DEATH LIKE HERO SAYS WIFE New York, April 19.- Mrs. May Futrelle, whose husband, Jacques Futrelle, the short story writer and novelist, went down with the ship, was met here by her daughter, Miss. Virginia Futrelle, who was brought to New York, from the convent of Notre Dame ...	20th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	FUNDS FOR SURVIVORS Article...	18th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	FOR NEW BEDFORD LIBRARY Artist Millett Bringing Back Sketches for Mural Decorations. New Bedford, April 17- Frank D. Millett, the artist, who was aboard the Titanic and whose name does not appear on the list of survivors, had been engaged to paint the mural decor...	18th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	STEAD AND ASTOR CLING TO RAFT New York, April 19- One version of the deaths of John Jacob Astor and William T. Stead was told by Philip Mock, who, with his sister, Mrs.Paul Schabert, were among the survivors. "Many men were hanging on to rafts in the sea," said Mr....	20th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	ICE CAKE HELPED HIM TO ESCAPE New York, April 19.- A huge cake of ice was the means of aiding Emilo Portaluppi of Aricgabo, Italy, in escaping death when the Titanic went down. Portaluppi, a second class passenger, was awakened by the explosion of one of the boilers of the ship. ...	20th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	LIGHTS AID BOATS KEEPING TOGETHER New York, April 19.- G.E.H.Stengel of Newark escaped in the only life boat which carried lights. He believes that a number of persons owe their lives to the forethought of a member of the crew who was quickwitted enough to snatch up three green glass...	20th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	WOMAN RELATES THRILLING RACE OF CARPATHIA Article...	20th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	CARPATHIA'S CAPT. ALL WORN OUT Article...	20th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	SAVES DOGS WHILE PASSENGERS PERISH Article...	20th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	BOY'S PRAYER FOR LIFE ANSWERED New York, April 19- Edward Dorking, an English boy who was on his way aboard the Titanic to an Illinois farm and who saved himself by jumping from the deck, told today of the last minutes of the doomed vessel. "Three of us young fellows were standing...	20th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	PRES. HAYS WIDOW LEAVES FOR HOME New York, April 19- Upon the arrival of the Carpathia, Mrs. Charles M. Hays, wife of the president of the Grand Trunk railway, who went down with the ill-fated Titanic and her two daughters, Mrs. Thornton Davidson and Miss. Margaret Hays, were met by...	20th April 1912

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