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New York Times (1912) YOUNG ROEBLING ON TITANIC
Son of President of Roebling Sons and Noted Autoist --- Special to The New York Times --- TRENTON, N. J., April 15---Washlngton A. Roebling, second, a son of Charles G. Roebling, President of the John A. Roebling Sons Co.,...
16th April 1912  
New York Times (1907) MORGAN'S WILD AUTO DASH
The Financier Catches an Express Train in the Berkshires --- Special to The New York Times --- PITTSFIELD, Mass., Sept. 8---J. Pierpont Morgan to-day pursued an express train in an automobile and caught it....
9th September 1907  
New York Times (1915) GUGGENHEIM HEIRESS LOST
Twelve-Year-Old Hazel Found In Grounds of Deserted Mansion --- Special to The New York Times --- WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 23---After being lost for seven hours to-day, Miss Hazel Barbara Guggenheim, daughter of Mrs. Benjamin Gu...
24th June 1915  
Trenton Evening Times (1912) ROEBLING SAID GOODBYE TO FRIENDS AND THEN PERISHED WITH BLACKWELL, HIS COMPANION
"You will be back with us on the ship again soon", were the last words of Washington A. Roebling, II, so far as Trenton relatives know. In an interview this morning at the Waldorf-Astoria between Miss Caroline Bonnell and Ferdinand W. Roebling,...
19th April 1912  
Belfat Telegraph (2006) TITANIC DECKCHAIR COULD SELL FOR ?57,000
A deckchair removed from the Titanic just moments before it set sail from Cork could fetch up to around ?57,000 when it goes under the hammer, experts predicted last night.Specialists with Bonhams and Butterfields in the US expect the chair, taken from the first-class Promenade deck of the Belfast-built liner, to go for between $$75-100,000 (?43-57,000) when it is auctioned off next month.The original beech framed chair, one of only six left in the world, is to be sold off at the auctioneer's annual Marine Paintings, Ship Models, Scrimshaw and Ocean Liner Memorabilia Sale at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 7....
12th April 2006  
New York Times (1912) RACE MEETING AT AUTEUIL
*** By Marconi Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times *** PARIS, Feb. 17---*** Mrs. Brandeis Cohn, Loyal B. Cohn, Walter H. Cohn and Emil Brandeis, who had been in Switzerland for the last six months, have arrived in Paris...
18th February 1912  
New York Times (1924) CAPT. BOWER ISMAY DIES
British Shipping and Racing Man Succumbs to Sleeping Sickness --- LONDON, May 25---Captain Bower Ismay, the shipowner and racehorse fancier, died today at Hazel Beech Hall, Northamptonshire. He had been ill since Feb. 8 with sleeping ...
26th May 1924  
New York Times (1937) SUMMONS FOR FIERMONTE
Photographer Charges Attack in Queens Traffic Court --- A summons charging third-degree assault on John Drennan, a newspaper photographer, was served yesterday on Enzo Fiermonte in the Rikers Island penitentiary, where Mr. Fiermonte is ...
9th July 1937  
New York Times (1947) DIES IN SWIMMING POOL
F. O. Spedden, Retired Banker Here, Stricken in Palm Beach --- Frederic O. Spedden of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., retired New York banker, died yesterday of a heart attack while in the swimming pool of the Bath Club in Palm Beach, Flori...
4th February 1947  
New York Times (1939) FIERMONTE CONVICTED IN FRENCH AUTO CRASH
Gets Conditional Sentence of 2 Months, 1,000-Franc Fine --- DIJON, France, July 29 (AP)---Enzo Fiermonte, former husband of Mrs. Madeline Force Astor Dick, socially prominent American, received a conditional sentence of two months in pr...
30th July 1939  
Steubenville Herald-Star (1957) DEATHS AND FUNERALS : WILLIAM COUTTS
Police said William L. Coutts, 55, of 561 S. Negley Ave., Pittsburgh, was found dead at 11.31 p.m., Tuesday, between two houses in the 100 block of S. Water Street. Coutt's body was discovered by Alfred Rhea of 155 S. Wter St., who told po...
25th December 1957  
The Syracuse Herald (1912) FIRE RAGED ON TITANIC FIVE DAYS
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20th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) AUTEUIL SOUNDS THE PANNIER'S DOOM
Smart Display of Summer Fashions at Paris Race Course Shows Radical Style Changes --- NOVEL ROBESPIERRE GOWNS --- Immense Crowd Out to See the French Grand National---Americans Less Numerous Than Usual...
24th June 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1997) OLDEST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DEAD AT 100
SOUTHAMPTON, England -- Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor from the sinking of the Titanic, has died at 100. Mrs. Haisman died Monday at a nursing home in Southampton, 80 miles southwest of London, her family said. Mrs. Haisman r...
22nd January 1997  
Women's Wear Daily (1911) EDITH L. ROSENBAUM REPORTED HURT IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
A number of the daily papers this morning have the following press dispatch from Rouen, France: "Rouen, Monday: – Miss Edith Rosenbaum, an American, was seriously injured today in an automobile accident while on her way to this city from Paris. A Ger...
22nd August 1911  
Chicago Tribune (1966) 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  
Philadelphia Inquirer (1945) J.B. THAYER, 3D, ENDS LIFE IN AUTO
John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of an old Philadelphia family, who had been reported missing since Wednesday, was found dead, his wrists and throat cut, in a parked automobile near the P....
23rd September 1945  
New York Times (1912) COMFORT FOR OSCAR STRAUS
Messages of Sympathy from Every Part of the World --- Oscar S. Straus has been deeply touched by the scores of cablegrams, telegrams, and letters which he has received, each bearing its message of sympathy and paying warm tribute to the...
21st April 1912  
New York Times (1938) DIVORCE GRANTED FORMER MRS. ASTOR
Florida Judge Gives Decree on Ground That Fiermonte Was Extremely Cruel --- NO CONTEST BY EX-BOXER U. S. Woman Hurt in Crash of Auto in France Driven by Man Giving His Name --- WEST PALM BEACH, June 11 (AP)---The fo...
12th June 1938  
Philadelphia Inquirer (1945) JOHN B. "JACK" THAYER III:OBITUARY
J.B. THAYER, 3D, ENDS LIFE IN AUTO John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of an old Philadelphia family, who had been reported missing since Wednesday, was found d...
23rd September 1945  
Dowagiac Daily News (1912) BISHOP'S ARRIVE HOME AND RELATE MANY THINGS ABOUT TITANIC NOT BEFORE TOLD
Waited Over to Take Passage on This Ship From Cherbourg DETAILS RESCUE Ship Slowly Sank to Watery Grave While They Watched One Mile Away - Did Not Break In Two Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Bishop, who were among ...
10th May 1912  
The Times (1924) OBITUARY---MR. C. BOWER ISMAY
Mr. Charles Bower Ismay, of Hazelbeech Hall, Northampton, who had been ill for some weeks, died yesterday morning. He was well known on the Turf, and was the owner of Craganour, which ran in the famous Derby of 1913. His grandfather, Joseph Ismay was...
26th May 1924  
Daily Telegraph (1908) ISMAY YACHT TORPEDOED!
(Photo: HM Torpedo Boat Hunter) Action against a Naval Officer The hearing was begun on Saturday before His Honour Judge Percy Gye and a jury, at the Isle of Wight County Court, of an action brought by M...
  1908  
Trenton Evening Times (1912) TRENTON MEN ABOARD GIANT TITANIC WHICH MEETS DISASTER IN ICE
Washington A. Roebling II, and Stephen W. Blackwell among Hundreds of Passengers who are taken Off in Lifeboats when Maiden Voyage Seemed Likely to End in Sinking of World’s Biggest Vessel Returning to their homes in Trenton after a t...
16th April 1912  
New York Times (1922) FIND HEADQUARTERS OF CHICAGO GUNMEN
Police Locate Saloon Where They Got Arms and Waited, It is Said, for Murphy's Orders --- RAID JOHN MILLER'S HOME --- Seize Quantity of Dynamite There---Paper Giving List Used Last Tuesday Is Found --- Special...
16th May 1922  
The Times (1912) FRENCHMEN'S ACCOUNT
PASSENGERS' FAITH IN THE SHIP We were quietly playing auction bridge with a Mr. Smith from Philadelphia, when we heard a violent noise similar to that produced by the screw racing. We were startled and looked at one another under the ...
20th April 1912  
  CARGO MANIFEST
SS Titanic: Commercial Cargo Manifest: Net worth of total cargo: $420,0...
   
The Toronto World (1912) WIRELESS FLASHES HEARD BY TWO TORONTO OPERATORS
------------------------- Messages Sent by Ports Along the Atlantic Seaboard Are Often Caught at (sic) Local Station if the Night is Clear---Tapping of the Instrument Decipherable at T...
17th April 1912  
 

 
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