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Chicago Examiner MICHIGAN WIFE GETS $100,000 ALIMONY
Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop, wife of a Dowagiac millionaire, was granted a divorce here to-day.  The Bishops were on the Titanic on their honeymoon trip when the liner went down.  Mrs. Bishop, who charges...
18th January 1916
Chicago Examiner HE SURVIVED TITANIC : ON THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND, TOO
Among more than 300 survivors from the Lusitania arrived in Dublin last night on their way to England was a Dublin man named Toner, who was on the Titanic when it sank and the Empress of Ireland when ...
10th May 1915
Chicago Examiner TITANIC WIDOW KILLED BY A FORMER SUITOR
San Francisco, Feb. 24---Mrs. S. L. Johnson of Tacoma, Wash., a Titanic widow and a bride of two weeks, was shot and instantly killed at the Sutter Hotel to-day by Abraham Pepper, a former suitor.  Mrs. Johnson formerly was Mrs. Herman Kla...
25th February 1914
Chicago Examiner STEAD'S SPIRIT PICKS WRONG LADY GORDON
STEAD'S SPIRIT PICKS WRONG LADY GORDON Message From Other World Upon Titanic Disaster Goes Ast...
16th December 1913
Chicago Examiner MORE SPIRIT NOTES BY STEAD REVEALED
Spirit messages from the late William T. Stead, lost in the Titanic disaster,...
7th December 1913
Chicago Examiner POET KEMP LOCKED UP AS STOWAWAY
Oceanic Officials to Prosecute Him at Souithampton Special Cable to the Examiner Plymouth, Oct. 3--Harry Kemp, the poet who eloped with the former wife of Upton Sinclair, was a stowaway on...
4th October 1913
Chicago Examiner VANDERBILTS ESCAPE WRECK ON THE FRANCE
Liners Near Collision in Heavy Mist; Passengers Thrown About Decks      New York,  March 22---Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt were among the passengers on th...
23rd March 1913
Chicago Examiner SECOND TITANIC BABY BORN
Cincinnati, O., Nov. 30---Mrs. John Jacob Astor of New York wired congratulations today to Mrs. Mary Eloise Smith, one of the two "Honeymoon" widows of the Titanic disaster, to whom a son was born at the Jewish Hospital here.  As...
1st December 1912
Chicago Examiner OLYMPIC TO BE REBUILT
Special Cable to the Examiner. Belfast, Sept. 24---The White Star Line announces definitely that the steamer Olympic, sister of the Titanic, will come to Belfaast from Southampton for renovation.  She will be ma...
25th September 1912
Chicago Examiner FRIEND TELLS HOW TITANIC COMMANDER MIGHT HAVE ESCAPED
INSISTS CAPT. SMITH LIVES Friend Tells How Titanic Commander Might Have Escaped Baltimore, md., July 21---Still emphatic in his assertions that he saw Captain E. J. Smith, who is supposed ...
22nd July 1912
Chicago Examiner A TITANIC HERO
Charles Brown, the English comedian now playing with "A Modern Eve" at the Garrick, lost a number of friends when the Titanic went down.  He knew most of the officers on the ill-fated ship, and the purser, McElroy, had been a com...
2nd June 1912
Chicago Examiner LOSES 9 OF KIN ON TITANIC
Massachusetts Man Just Learns of Relatives' Deaths Haverhill, Mass., May 8---Thomas N. Watson of this city has just learned that nine of his relatives, including two married sisters and...
9th May 1912
Chicago Examiner NOT LOCKED IN CABIN ON CARPATHIA, SAYS ISMAY
I know that my personal conduct has been made the subject of a lot of unfavorable comment, and I court the fullest inquiry at the hands of your committee or any one else who has the right to ask such questions.  So far as the Carpathia is ...
1st May 1912
Chicago Examiner 'MESSAGE' FROM STEAD RECITED BY MEDIUM
Narrative Said to Be From Other World, Told in Church of Soul ____________ &...
29th April 1912
Chicago Examiner EXAMINER FUND AIDS GIRLS FROM TITANIC
Two Suffering From Shock Get $20 Each and Will Be Sent to a Sanitarium Two Titanic passengers, women, who still are suffering from the shock and exposure of the midnight tragedy, each received last night a $20 bill from th...
28th April 1912
Chicago Examiner LA FRANCE, NEWEST LINER, HAS CONSORT
La Touraine Guards Her on Maiden Trip Special Cable to the Examiner Paris, April 21---La France, the newest and largest French transatlantic liner, left Havre today on her maiden voyage to...
22nd April 1912
Chicago Examiner INVESTIGATORS SEND TUG 25 MILES DOWN HARBOR TO TAKE SAILOR OFF LINER; INQUIRY GOES TO WASHINGTON TO PREVENT TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES.
New York, April 20---The Senate committee appointed to investigate the sinking of the liner Titanic closed a day of unearthing developments of supreme importance by having Quartermaster Hichens of the Titanic taken from the outgoing liner Lapland ...
21st April 1912
Chicago Examiner 2 BOXERS DIE ON TITANIC
Leslie Williams and Arthur Bowen Coming From Wales for Fights Two professional boxers of Wales, Leslie Williams and Andy Bowen, lost their lives when the Titanic foundered.  They were...
20th April 1912
Chicago Examiner GIANTS IN TITANIC BENEFIT
Will Play Yankees Sunday to Aid Survivors of Sunken Liner New York, April 19---President John T. Brush of the National League baseball team announced today that the Giants would play an exhibition game with the New Y...
20th April 1912
Chicago Examiner MISS ANNIE KELLY IN HOSPITAL
Misses Margaret and Beatrice Kelly of 303 Eugenie street were overjoyed last night when they learned that their seventeen-year-old sister, Annie Kelly, who was a Titanic voyager, was one of the survivors picked up by the Carpathi...
20th April 1912
Chicago Examiner JOHN HUGO ROSS AMONG THOSE NOT RESCUED
J. H. ROSS EXPECTED.      One of the Titanic victims was to visit Dr. Hugh H. Perry, 9515 Commercial avenue, the latter part of this week.  He was J. Hugo Ross, cousin of Dr. Perry and a wealthy re...
19th April 1912
Chicago Examiner MISTAKEN FOR WOMAN; FORCED INTO LIFEBOAT
Hartford, Conn., Apr. 18--Resolved to die after having done his utmost to aid in placing the women and children of the Titanic aboard the lifeboats Councilman William T. Sloper, clad in a white night robe, was himself taken for a woman and thru...
19th April 1912
Chicago Examiner NIGHT CLEAR, SAYS MARINER
Boston, Mass., April 18---Captain Franz Huber of the German Freighter Trautenfels, which arrived here today, said he passed over the spot where the Titanic sunk ten hours before the accident and that the night was clear. ...
19th April 1912
Chicago Examiner SEEK WORD OF STEWARD
Mrs. William J. Stroud, 217 East Thirty-first street, besought news of her husband's brother, Harry Stroud, yesterday at the White Star office.  His name does not appear among those saved. "Harry Stroud lived in Southampton with ...
19th April 1912
Chicago Examiner WIDOW AND DAUGHTERS OF HAYS SPEED HOME
New York, April 18---Mrs. Charles M. Hays and her two daughters, Miss Margaret Hays and Mrs. Thornton Davidson, survivors of the Titanic wreck, were met at the pier by a large party of friends.  Mr. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Railw...
19th April 1912
Chicago Examiner PASTOR AND WIFE MISSING
Thomas Hughes' Daughter is Believed Among Titanic Dead. Topeka, Kan., April 17--The Rev. Ernest Carter and his wife of London were booked for the Titanic's first sailing on their way to Topeka to spend the Summer with Mrs....
18th April 1912
Chicago Examiner TITANIC'S CAPTAIN WARNED OF HUGE FILED OF ICEBERGS
Operator on La Bretagne Tells How Messages Were Sent in All Directions From Near Cape Race....
18th April 1912
Chicago Examiner HOPE FOR THE SAFETY OF MISSING PASSENGERS
BULLETIN        New York, April 17 (Wednesday), 1:30 A.M.---A vague hope for the safety of some of the missing passengers was given last night by the captain of the tramp steamer Ultonia, whic...
17th April 1912
Chicago Examiner ERVIN LEWY : BROTHER AWAITS NEWS
Ervin G. Lewy, 5628 South Park avenue, is treasurer of the firm of Lewy Brothers, jewelers, State and Adams streets.  No dispatches have been received by Mr. Lewy's relatives late last night to indicate whether he was among those who lost the...
16th April 1912
Chicago Examiner BLAMES WRECK ON PILOT
BLAMES WRECK ON PILOT Admiralty Court Renders Decision in Olympic Collision Case Special Cable to the Examiner Sir Samuel Evans, president of the Admiralty Court, announced...
20th December 1911
Chicago Examiner LAKE SHIP FLAGS LOWERED
Placed at Half-Mast in Memory of President J. B. Thayer Duluth, April 20--Flags were placed at half-mast on all ships of the Anchor Line in the harbor here today, out of respect for President J. B. Thayer of that lin...
 

 
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