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Chicago Tribune	ANN STRAUBE Ann Straube, 92, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday in her North Side home. Mrs. Straube, a homemaker, was 14 when she managed to get aboard a lifeboat when the British passenger liner s...	31st January 1990
Chicago Tribune	VERDICT ON 'RAISE THE TITANIC' : "LIFE IS TOO SHORT" Aaron Gold TOWER TICKER ". . . . Film critic Pauline Kael, according to New York Post columnist Claudia Cohen, charged out of a press screening of "Raise the Titanic" mutterin...	5th August 1980
Chicago Tribune	MRS. BERTHA CHRISTENSEN Mrs. Bertha Christensen Services for Mrs. Bertha Christensen, 83, of 4205 Fullerton Av., will be at 1 p.m. ...	29th December 1976
Chicago Tribune	DEATHS ELSEWHERE Deaths Elsewhere __________ Oscar R. Houston, 86, the principal counsel in the Titanic, Lusitania, Morro Castle, Normandie, and Andrea Doria sea disasters and the man who planned t...	23rd December 1969
Chicago Tribune	SURVIVOR, 74, OF SINKING OF TITANIC DIES Services for Mrs. Vivian Forsander, 74, a survivor of the Titanic which sank April 15, 1912, drowning more than 1,500 persons, will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel at 10001 Western av. Mrs. Forsander, who was born in Sweden, died ...	21st November 1966
Chicago Tribune	PASSENGER ON TITANIC RECALLS 1912 TRAGEDY Mrs. Hans Christensen, 72, keenly remembers a cold April night in the Atlantic ocean nearly 54 years ago when she sat in a bobbing lifeboat and helplessly watched the liner, Titanic, quietly slip beneath the frigid waters off the coast of Newfou...	3rd April 1966
Chicago Tribune	RAYMOND A. STRAUBE : OBITUARY Raymond A. Straube, beloved husband of Ann F., nee Mc Gowan; loving father of Jacqueline Komay, Mary A. Kapolnek, and the late France King; devoted grandfather of nine, including Raymond R., Robert A., and Arthur W. Kopp; great-grandfath...	4th July 1965
Chicago Tribune	FRED A. WEBER Chicago Tribune, Monday, October 29, 1962, s. 3, p. 8: Obituaries Fred A. Weber Salt Lake City, Oct. 28 (AP)---Fred A. Weber, 72, one of the last surviving crew members of the Tita...	29th October 1962
Chicago Tribune	JUDY MAY GET STAR 'MOLLY BROWN' ROLE Hedda Hopper LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD Judy May Get Star 'Molly Brown' Role Hollywood, Jan. 22---Judy Garland will star in 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown,' if Freddie Fields get...	23rd January 1962
Chicago Tribune	49 YRS. AFTER TITANIC SINKS, SURVIVOR DIES Detroit, April 17 (AP)--In the hour after midnight on April 15, 1912, death overlooked Mrs. Bertha Cooper when the luxury liner Titanic sank after striking an iceberg. Saturday--49 years to the hour after the disaster t hat took the lives ...	18th April 1961
Chicago Tribune	FRANCES A. KING, NéE STRAUBE - OBITUARY Frances A. King, née Straube, loving mother of Raymond R., Robert A. and Arthur W.; devoted daughter of Raymond and Ann Straube, née McGowan; fond sister of Jacqueline Komay and Mary Kapolnek. Funeral Monday, 9:30 a.m., from funeral home,...	27th March 1960
Chicago Tribune	LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD Hedda Hopper “THE TITLE “Nearer My God To Thee” is now definitely “Titanic.” It should have been all along, but 20th Century had to clear it, and that cost a pretty penny. . .” Chicag...	22nd December 1952
Chicago Tribune	FILM STORY OF TITANIC SINKING GETS THE GREEN LIGHT LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD by Hedda Hopper Film Story of Titanic Sinking Gets the Green Light Hollywood, Feb. 22--Darryl Zanuck has given the green light to Charlie Brac...	22nd February 1952
Chicago Tribune	MRS. IDA HIPPACH LEAVES $85,000 ESTATE TO DAUGHTER The will of Mrs. Ida S. Hippach, leaving an estate estimated at $85,000 to a daughter, Mrs. Jean Unander-Scharin of Lake Forest, was filed for probate yesterday. Mrs. Hippach died a month ago at the age of 74 in her home at 2808 Evanston.&nb...	22nd October 1940
Chicago Tribune	CHILD FEARED LOST ON TITANIC REPORTED LIVING IN MICHIGAN Montreal, Que., Sept. 4 (AP)--A Montreal family was stirred today by the prospect that Lorraine Allison, long believed to have been drowned in the Titanic disaster of 1912, still is alive and residing in Berkley, Mich., as Mrs. Laurence K...	5th September 1940
Chicago Tribune	FRONT VIEWS AND PROFILES June Provines Ernest Byfield brought back a story from New York told him by both Margalo Gillmore and Myra Hampton that certainly shows that the wags have been cudgeling their brains for stories. This one is hung on the sinking of the Titanic. It...	17th November 1934
Chicago Tribune	THIRD SUICIDE IN FAMILY MYSTERY Northwestern ‘U’ Student Kills Himself Two years ago Dr. John R. Minahan, wealthy and prominent surgeon of Green Bay, Wis., was summoned to Chicago. His oldest son, John Jr., had ended his life in a frat...	20th February 1925
Chicago Tribune	THIRD TRAGEDY IN FAMILY The shooting marked the third tragedy in the Minahan family within recent years. N uncle, William E. Minahan, an attorney, perished when the steamship Titanic was sunk in 1912. And, according to reports from Green Bay, the boy’s mother was k...	19th February 1925
Chicago Tribune	SHOTGUN ENDS STUDENT'S LIFE; JILTED, THEORY “Frat” Brothers Scout Talk of Suicide. While police and University of Chicago authorities yesterday wavered between a theory of accident and suicide in explanation of the shooting to death of John B. Min...	3rd February 1923
Chicago Tribune	TITANIC VICTIM'S BUSINESS CLOSED OUT IN MONTREAL Announcement was made today on the floor of the stock exchange that the brokerage firm of Thornton Davidson & Co., which has connections in New York and Boston, had gone into voluntary liquidation. The firm was established ...	29th July 1920
Chicago Tribune	ROUND ABOUT THE SOCIETY WORLD. Page 15 A number of Chicago relatives and friends will leave for the east Oct. 20 to attend the wedding of Miss Emily Ryerson and George Hyde Clark, which will take place on Oct. 23 at Ringwood, near Cooperstown, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Edw...	7th October 1915
Chicago Tribune	THIRD OF FAMILY TO MEET TRAGIC END Nineteen year old Howard Hippach is the last of the three sons of Louis A. Hippach, wealthy plate glass and window glass manufacturer, to meet a tragic death. Howrd Hippach was killed Thursday afternoon when a motor car which he was driving ...	31st October 1914
Chicago Tribune	JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBERG JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBRG By Quick Reversal of Engines and with Helm Hard Aport Liner Grazes Huge...	28th October 1913
Chicago Tribune	NEWS OF THE SOCIETY WORLD : MRS. RYERSON RETURNING One of the many evidences of Mrs. Marshall Field’s loyalty to Chicago, in spite of nearly a decade spent away from here, is that she has always kept her box for the symphony concerts and has never failed to fill it with friends at each after...	13th October 1913
Chicago Tribune	SAILOR, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES Reginal Lee, One of Seamen in the Lookout When Steamer Sank, Succumbs in London Reginald Lee, one of the two sailors in the lookout when the White Star liner Titanic met in disastrous collision with an iceberg a year...	10th August 1913
Chicago Tribune	OCEAN WRECK SURVIVOR DEAD John Conley, Last of Passengers on the Steamer Arctic, Succumbs at Age of 80 John Conley, last of the survivors of the Arctic, which sank on Sept. 20, 1854, near t...	24th December 1912
Chicago Tribune	AUTHOR'S DEATH KILLS MOTHER Parent of Jacques Futrelle Who Went Down with Titanic Succumbs to Grief Grief over the death of her so...	30th July 1912
Chicago Tribune	SIGHT BODY OF TITANIC VICTIM Philadelphia, Pa., July 20—The body of a man lashed to a spar was sighted about seventeen miles from the scene of the Titanic disaster by the British steamship Hudson, which just arrived here. The body was unrecognizable. ...	21st July 1912
Chicago Tribune	WIDOW SUES TITANIC OWNERS Mrs. A. Willer of Chicago Asks $10,000 for Husband’s Death Family Left Penniless Red Cross Saves Them fr...	20th July 1912
Chicago Tribune	BATTLESHIP IN CRASH LIKE TITANIC'S; DAMAGE IS SLIGHT. BATTLESHIP IN CRASH LIKE TITANIC'S; DAMAGE IS SLIGHT. Value of Subdivision of the Hull Into Large Number of Small Compartments Demonstrated ...	5th June 1912
Chicago Tribune	FIRST CLAIMS DUE TO TITANIC DISASTER TO BE SETTLED PAY $20,000 LEWY INSURANCE First Claims due to Titanic Disaster to Be Settled In United States, So Far as Known ...	11th May 1912
Chicago Tribune	TITANIC 'VICTIMS' BOB UP EVERYDAY Survivors Who Besiege Relief Committee Prove Imposters...	4th May 1912
Chicago Tribune	GIRL IMMIGRANTS HERE GET ONLY NIGHTGOWNS IN NEW YORK PLEA FOR TITANIC ARRIVALS Girl Immigrants Here Get Only Nightgowns in New York Others Arrive Destitute Use of Money Collected Here Urged for Their Assistance Imm...	26th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	OTHERS ARRIVE DESTITUTE Two men and a girl from Sweden, Oscar Hedmann, Carl Johnson, and Anna Sjoblom, spent several hours in Chicago yesterday on their way west. All found themselves in New York without a cent. They were taken to an immigration home and clothed ...	26th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	HOLD MEMORIAL FOR THE TITANIC The Titanic catastrope so strongly religious in its effect, was the topic of sermons in most Chicago churches yesterday. Many ministers drew lessons of warning, some of thankfulness, in the theme. Collections were generally div...	22nd April 1912
Chicago Tribune	ANOTHER CHICAGOAN STILL FEARS Some Chicagoans do not know yet whether their relatives were saved by the Carpathia or not. Edward Manion, who lives at 1848 Lincoln avenue, does not know whether his sister, Miss Margaret Manion, Castle Bar, Ireland, is on her way to Chicag...	21st April 1912
Chicago Tribune	CELTIC PASSENGERS IN PANIC News of Titanic Disaster Spreads Despite Efforts of the Officers of Vessel New York, April 20--[Special]--The Celtic of the White Star line arrived in port today with the news that she had received the &qu...	21st April 1912
Chicago Tribune	DULUTH WOMAN TELLS STORY . . . Miss Constance Willard of Duluth, Minn., who left the Titanic twenty minutes before the vessel sank, arrived in Chicago during the day over the Lake Shore limited. "One subject talked of after we were on board the Carpathi...	21st April 1912
Chicago Tribune	JESSIE LEITCH'S STORY TELLS MISS LEITCH'S STORY Nana Harper, the 6 year old daughter of Dr. John Harper, who was on his way to Chicago to preach at the Moody church will return to England...	21st April 1912
Chicago Tribune	OAK PARK WOMAN TITANIC SURVIVOR LETTER SENT BY TITANIC SURVIVOR WHILE ABOARD THE CARPATHIA SENT TO SISTER IN OAK PARK A letter written on board the Carpathi...	21st April 1912
Chicago Tribune	THOMAS FOLEY'S BROTHER GONE Thomas Foley, 3157 Harrison street, a street car conductor, a well built young man, with an unspoiled Irish burr in his speech, called to ask if the ...	20th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	WAUKEGAN FARMER NOT SAVED Waukegan, Ill., April 18—[Special]—According to the published list of the steerage passengers on the ill fated steamer Titanic just given out James Elsbury, 50 years old, a wealthy farmer living just west of Gurnee, was one of the pa...	19th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	BRUCE HAS NO WRECK DETAILS Wireless Operator Reports He Was Unable to Get Particulars of Titanic Sinking St. Johns, N. F., April 17---The steamer Bruce, which arrived in St. John's harbor at noon on Monday and r...	18th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	CHAMPION AT RACQUETS LOST. [BY CABLE TO THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE] London, April 17---Among the Titanic’s passengers was Charles Williams, the professional racquet champion of the world who was on his way to New York to play Standing, the Americ...	18th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	LOSS OF TITANIC PREDICTED - CAPTAIN SMITH Capt. Smith Declared to Friends He Would Sink with the Vessel A woman living here whose husband is an officer on the White Star liner Irishman, tells an incident about the steamship Olympic, at the time commanded by ...	18th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	PHOTOGRAPHS ICE THAT SUNK LINER PHOTOGRAPHS ICE THAT SUNK LINER _____________ Arthur Tree Brings Pictures of Giant Floes in Which Titanic Met Doom...	18th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	SKIPPER PREDICTS FATE OF TITANIC SKIPPER PREDICTS FATE OF TITANIC Wreck of Liner Fulfills Prophecy Made by a Veteran Steamship Captain ...	18th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	TITANIC STRUCK ON CLEAR NIGHT Story of Parisian Operator Deepens Mystery of Disaster to White Star Line Warning Was Repeated Secrecy of Wireless Messages Pertaining to Wreck Maintained by Capt. Haines Halifax, N. S., April 17—...	18th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	WIRELESS STORMS ISLAND Sable Island, so long the terror of transatlantic seamen, is tonight, through the agency of the wireless, the storm center of a great battle for news of the missing passengers and crew of the Titanic. The wireless sta...	18th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	EDWARD GIFFORD CROSBY	17th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	HARRIETTE CROSBY	17th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	MORGAN DINNER RECALLED Friendship of Family for Capt. Smith Causes Withdrawal of Invitations _______ N...	17th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	SISTER AND BROTHER LOST? Rockford, Ill., April 16.--- [Special.]---Curt Lustig and his sister, Dagmar Lustig, both of Skara, Sweden, were second class passengers on the Titanic. Their names appear on the sailing list as Carl and Dagmar Bryl. They were coming to ...	17th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	STEAD'S CLAIRVOYANT MISSED Journalist Said He Was Told He Would Be Imprisoned, Then Kicked to Death in London Streets...	17th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	TITANIC GOT WARNING OF PERIL FROM ICEBERGS Amerika Encountered Menace in the Path of Ill-Fated ship and Sent Wireless Messages of Position...	17th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	UNCONFIRMED STORY OF HORROR A report is current here which is said to have emanated from the trading vessel Bruce, which is on the way to Sydney, C. B., giving a version of the Titanic disaster which the trader obtained from various ships. This is to...	17th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	WILLIAM EDWARD MINAHAN	17th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	SHIES BOATS UNDER CAPT. SMITH F. Harrison Powers of New York and Paris, a guest at the Congress hotel has been a passenger several times on White Star boats commanded by Capt. E. J. Smith of the Titanic. “But I only sailed with him once after the collision of the...	16th April 1912