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PRLog.Org (2009) PHILIP KEEPS TITANIC MILLVINA'S MEMORY ALIVE
As the ashes of the last surviving passenger from the Titanic Millvina Dean are scattered near the departure point of the fateful voyage, the grandson of the man who rowed her to safety will be making sure her memory remains alive....
23rd October 2009  
BBC Northern Ireland (2006) BROADCAST ARCHIVE KEEPS PAST ALIVE
To hear the voice of Edith Russell, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, is one of those "hairs on the back of the neck" moments. Here was a woman who had told a BBC Northern Ireland radio programme that she was "the next to last passenger in the last lifeboat, and the only lifeboat that was full. ...
9th December 2006  
KOLD-TV (2009) TITANIC EXHIBIT COMES TO TUCSON
You can see a piece of history come alive at a new exhibit in Tucson. It's all about Titanic and that fateful night in the North Atlantic in April of 1912....
3rd April 2009  
Canada.com (2007) ON TITANIC ANNIVERSARY, VICTORIA EXHIBIT OPENS
Elizabeth Darche's eyes were glassy with tears as she neared the end of the Titanic exhibit Saturday, the lives of people whose time was cut short brought alive by the hundreds of artifacts found in the hull of the sunken ship and now on display at the Royal B.C. Museum. ...
30th April 2007  
Denver Times (1912) MRS. STOIBER-ROOD DENIES REPORT HUSBAND IS ALIVE
Says She Has Positive Evidence He Lost His Life on Titanic Disaster. Recent reports from London that a man seen there had been partially identified as Hugh R. Rood, supposed to have been one of the Titanic victims in April, 1912, have ...
19th April 1912  
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 Titanic. Mr. Harris had a charming home in Broadway, Bayside, and was a regular summer resident of the vil...
17th April 1912  
Antioch News (1912) DEATH OF ELSBURY POSITIVE
Dispatch From the White Star Line Says That Elsbury is Not a Survivor ALL HOPE IS ABANDONED Gurnee Man on Titanic Not Among Survivors--Family Now Compelled to Give up Hope. The last hope of the James El...
2nd May 1912  
Brooklyn Daily Times (1912) STILL REFUSE TO BELIEVE WYCKOFF VON DERHOEF HAS PERISHED
President Frederick H. Way, of the Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company, was not inclined to discuss the fate of Wyckoff Von Derhoef, the Secretary of the company, who is reported to be among the missing of the Titanic passengers. Mr. Way is st...
19th April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1912) MAJOR BUTT MADE HIS WILL IN FEAR OF DEATH
Mysteriously Warned That He Might Die on His Trip To and From Europe A mysterious warning that he would meet death on his trip abroad came to Major Archibald Butt before he left Washington. Six weeks ago, when the major determined on a European trip ...
19th April 1912  
Hudson Observer (1912) MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR TITANIC VICTIM
Family of John Ashby of West Hoboken Abandon Hope for Him ---------- Until to-day the family of John Ashby, of West Hoboken, had some hope for his recovery, but are now convinced that there is no hope of him showing up alive, ...
23rd April 1912  
  (1992) SALE OF ROGERS' POSTCARD
In Sotheby's July 21/22 1992 Sale Lot 278: RMS Titanic postcard sent from the Titanic, written to James Day of Swansea by his friend ''W.J.R.'' in pencil . .. Just a line to show that I am alive & kicking going grand its a treat . . . '' coloured pos...
21st July 1992  
New York Times (1912) CHANGE FATAL TO GUGGENHEIM
Had Booked Passage on the Lusitania, Whose Sailing Was Canceled --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 18---A business friend of Benjamin Guggenheim says that had the Lusitania sailed as arranged on Apri...
19th April 1912  
Chicago Record-Herald (1912) HEARS SISTER IS ALIVE
Daniel Tobin of Denver, Colo., now in Chicago, passed most of yesterday at the local offices of the White Star line seeking information in regard to his sister, Mrs. J. G. Brown of Denver. Tobin shouted his joy when a report was received i...
17th April 1912  
Newark Star (1912) FATHER TITANIC VICTIM; SON LOSES HIS MIND
JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 18---Frederick Myles, 30 years old, of 256 Grove street, whose father, Thomas F. Myles, of Cambridge, Mass., was a passenger on the Titanic, is today locked up at the Seventh street police station for safe keeping because he...
19th April 1912  
New York Evening Journal (1912) INSISTS HUSBAND ESCAPED DISASTER
A pathetic case growing out of the Titanic disaster is that of Mrs. J. Bradley Cumings of No. 50 East Sixty-fourth Street, whose husband, formerly a broker at No. 36 Wall Street, perished with the ship. Mrs. Cumings, confined in her b...
22nd April 1912  
Le Journal (1912) MRS MARVIN
When the Carpathia docked, Mrs. Marvin, who was on her honeymoon trip, fainted when she learnt that there was no hope for her husband to be alive. When she was placed into a lifeboat, her husband simply told her: "Everything is going to be fine, youn...
20th April 1912  
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 hope of seeing their daughter alive. The mother is seriously ill and the entire family is grief-stric...
22nd April 1912  
Chicago Tribune (1912) 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  
Southern Evening Echo (1964) KEEPING IN TOUCH
FIFTY-TWO years ago, Titanic survivor Mr Ernest Allen, of 40 Salisbury Road, Highfield, Southampton was a stoker in the ill-fated Titanic. Today at 72 years of age, he is still stoking and at the Ordnance Survey Office, London Road, Southampton, cont...
4th September 1964  
Chicago Tribune (1940) 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 Daily News (1912) SEEKS NEWS OF BROTHER-IN-LAW
“Is my brother-in-law alive? His name is C. Joughin, and he was a baker on the Titanic.” This question was asked of The Daily News to-day by G. Woodward, 2520 Washington boulevard. Names of members of the crew of the Tit...
19th April 1912  
  (1959) MISS AMELIE ICARD'S TESTIMONY, FEBRUARY 1959
Amelie Icard gave a long interview to reporters of the French magazine 'Paris Match', published on 14 February 1959 (issue # 514). The article was illustrated with a picture of Melle Icard talking to the reporters. She was then living in Grenoble, Fr...
14th February 1959  
Cambridge Chronicle (1912) CAMBRIDGE MAN ABOARD
It is feared that a Cambridge man was among those who lost their lives, and great anxiety is felt by his parents, who live in Cambridge, and relatives and close friends, as to his safety. We refer to Mr. A. W. Barringer, a native of Cambridge, who we...
19th April 1912  
  (1912) LETTER FROM WILLIAM MELLORS TO HIS MOTHER - RICHMOND COUNTY CLUB
New York Monday 22/4/12 c/o Mr. Hale Richmond County Club Dongan Hills Staten Island N.Y. Dear Mother, Just a line to let you know I am getting along much better. ...
22nd April 1912  
Denver Post (1912) LENA STOIBER ROOD SEEKS HUSBAND BY ADVERTISING
He Was On Titanic - She Hopes He May Have Escaped Death. Hoping against hope that her husband, Hugh Rood may have by some chance escaped death in the Titanic disaster, Mrs. Lena Stoiber Rood is making every effort to locate him, if he ...
6th May 1912  
1911 Census (1911) THE SAGE FAMILY IN THE 1911 CENSUS
The Sage family in 1911 were living at 246 Gladstone Street, Peterborough. The house had 5 rooms. Name:  John G. Sage Relationship to ...
2nd April 1911  
Denver Post (1912) PANIC TERRIBLE JUST BEFORE VESSEL SANK
'Seemed as If All the Devils of Hell Had Been Let Loose,' When People Realized Worst, Says Doctor. Mr. Henry W. Frauenthal of New York declared all of the women on board the Titanic were thought to have been safely lowered to the boat...
19th April 1912  
Times-Tribune (1962) 50 YEARS AFTER: A MEMORY OF THE TITANIC
BY ROSEMARY MOSSIEN Vivid memories of the horror of the sinking of the "unsinkable" ocean liner Titanic 50 years ago April 15 are recalled by Mrs. John Black, 11 Kay Terrace, only Rochesterian who is a survivor of the tragedy....
  1962  
Chicago Daily News (1912) CHICAGOAN’S KIN TITANIC STEWARD
A brother of William J. Stroud, 217 East 31st street, was a steward on the ill fated Titanic. Today Mrs. Stroud, sobbing tearfully, begged for news of her brother-in-law, Harry Stroud, of Southampton, England. “If Harry is dead,...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) THINKS CAPT. SMITH IS ALIVE
Baltimore Mariner Declares He Met Titanic Commander in Street --- Special to The New York Times --- BALTIMORE, Md., July 20---Capt. Peter Pryal, one of the oldest mariners in Baltimore and well known in shipping...
21st July 1912  
Southern Daily Echo (1913) LINK WITH THE TITANIC: DEATH OF LOOK-OUT MAN AT SOUTHAMPTON
A notable figure among the survivors of the Titanic has been removed by death at the Sailors' Home at Southampton on Tuesday of Reginald Robinson Lee, on whom an inquest was held by the Borough Coroner (Mr. H. K. Pope) yesterday afternoon. Le...
8th August 1913  
  HENRY BREWER'S WIFE?
     This is the family story as it has been passed to me form my grandparents, Edith and William Prewitt, now deceased and my father, Ronald Prewitt, very much alive as of 11/25/2005 born 3/16/1920. I spoke with him this ev...
   
Surrey Advertiser and County Times (1912) MR. AND MRS. HARVEY COLLYER
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Collyer and their little daughter. Mother and daughter saved; Mr. Collyer missing. Mr. Collyer's parents live in Leatherhead, Surrey. Leatherhead passengers One taken and two left. Among the passengers were Mr. ...
20th April 1912  
1911 Census (1911) EDITH AND TREASTEALL PEACOCK IN THE 1911 CENSUS
  Here is the 1911 census for Edith and her daughter, Treasteall. They were living in a four room house at 17 Orchard Place, Southampton.   Name: Trea...
2nd April 1911  
New York Times (1912) GAMBLERS ON THE TITANIC
Many Planned to Cross on the First Trip---"Doc" Owen Not Aboard --- Broadway inhabitants were discussing last night the report that a number of well-known professional gamblers had gone to their death on the Titanic. It was said that t...
18th April 1912  
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 stories to the effect that Mrs. William Logan Gwinn, wife of the chief mail clerk of the lost Titanic, w...
26th April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (2001) LAST MALE SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DIES
One of the last known survivors of the Titanic, Michel Navratil, has died in southern France at the age of 92. He was just three years old when the ship hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic and sank shortly before midnight on 14 April 1912. ...
2nd February 2001  
Newark Star (1912) WHY WAS THE NEWS SUPPRESSED
A reporter for The Newark Star managed to get aboard the Carpathia and made his way to the bridge, where he had an interview with Captain Rostrom [sic] as to why the news of the wreck and the condition of the survivors had been withheld. The followin...
19th April 1912  
Daily Mail (2009) LAST SURVIVING PASSENGER OF THE TITANIC MILLVINA DEAN DIES AGED 97
The Titanic's last surviving passenger has died today at the age of 97.Millvina Dean, who was just nine weeks old when the historic liner sank in 1912, died in the early hours of this morning after being cared for at a Southampton nursing...
31st May 2009  
Akron Beacon Journal (1912) MRS. ADDIE WELLS THOUGHT IT WAS BOAT DRILL UNTIL SHE SAW OFFICER'S PISTOL
Stood Up All Night Long in Lifeboat, Nestling Her Babies in Her Skirts to Keep Them Warm and Dry and Alive (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal) New York, April 20--Mrs. Addie Wells and her two chidlren, Joan, aged ...
20th April 1912  
La Tribune de Genève (1912) THE ARNOLD AND HAAS FAMILIES
The Arnold family, in Altorf*, are in a deep state of anxiety, for two of their members, Mr. Joseph Arnold, 25 years old, and his wife, née Franck, 20 years old, boarded the "Titanic". They were heading to Wisconsin, where the Arnold brothers settled...
21st April 1912  
New York Times (1919) 25 DEAD, 100 HURT IN BIG EXPLOSION AT CEDAR RAPIDS
Fire Follows, Causing $1,500,000 Damage to the Douglas Starch Works --- SCORES ARE STILL MISSING --- Company of Soldiers Hold Back Relatives of Workers and Assist Rescuers --- CAUSE REMAINS UNKNOWN --- Windo...
23rd May 1919  
ET Research (2007) TRUE SURVIVORS
Mrs. Barbara Dainton (nee West) [Since this article was published M...
14th April 2007  
Washington Times (1912) CAPITAL RESIDENTS IN NEW YORK FOR CARPATHIA'S COMING
Anxious for News From Friends Aboard the Titanic --- With barely one thread of hope that three of the Washingtonians who sailed from Southampton on the ill-fated Titanic a week ago yesterday are still alive, a party of Washingtonians to...
18th April 1912  
Southern Daily Echo (2009) MILLVINA DEAN, LAST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES
By Jon Reeve MILLVINA Dean, the last survivor of Titanic, died today at the age of 97.Miss Dean was just nine weeks old when the historic liner sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg on her maiden transatlantic voyage from Sou...
31st May 2009  
Unidentified Newspaper (1987) UNTITLED EXTRACT
Mrs. Mary Davies Wilburn, the oldest known living survivor of the Titanic disaster. Mrs. Wilburn, who was 104, died on July 29, 1987 at the Community General Hospital in Syracuse, New York. For the past eight years, she was a resident at the Loretto ...
  1987  
  (1929) GOD MOVES ON THE WATER
Blind Willie Johnson was born in Marlin, Texas c.1902. A Gospel singer and guitarist, he recorded just 30 pieces at a variety of locations between 1927 and 1930. He was accompanied on some songs by his wife Angeline. During the depression reverted...
11th December 1929  
New York Times (1912) NEWS ARTICLE AND MEMORIAL NOTICE
Thomas H. Kelly, Treasurer of the fund for establishing a memorial of Dr. William O'Loughlin, who perished in the Titanic, announces that he has already received contributions amounting to $1,512 made up of two contributions of $500 each, one of $150...
12th May 1912  
Chicago American (1912) TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF SELF-DEATH
TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF OFFICER’S SELF-DEATH Remarkable strength of Carl Janson, another of the surviving passengers of the Titanic, kept him alive in the frigid ocean for six hour...
25th April 1912  
Winona Daily News (2009) HISTORIAN BRINGS TITANIC TO LIFE FOR STUDENTS
By Dustin KassARCADIA, Wis. -- 'You died. You lived. You died.'One after another, the Arcadia Elementary School students showed Titanic historian Donald Lynch their 'boarding passes.' Each bore the name of a RMS Titanic passen...
29th April 2009  
Santa Barbara News-Press (1990) RUTH BLANCHARD DIES, WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
Ruth Becker Blanchard, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Friday at home in Santa Barbara. She was 90. Mrs. Blanchard died of complications of a stomach ulcer and old age, said Don Lynch, spokesman for the Titanic Hist...
8th July 1990  
Belfast Telegraph (2009) TITANIC ARTWORK TO HELP WORLD'S POOR
Sunday, 26 April 2009 A painting of the Titanic could raise £10,000 for charity at auction, the artist who created it said today. Dozens of old cheques issued by the Belfast shipyard where the famous vessel was built have been...
26th April 2009  
 

 
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