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Hampshire Chronicle	DESCENDANT OF TITANIC OFFICER TO TALK IN SHAWFORD NEXT MONTH THE grandson of an officer on the Titanic will talk about the sinking at a talk near Winchester next month....	22nd February 2011
syracuse.com	OSWEGO HISTORIAN TO TALK ABOUT PERSONALITIES OF THE TITANIC George DeMass, of Oswego, chaplain to the Titanic Historical Society, will present a talk titled “Titanic: 100 Years Later, A Personal Perspective: from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday Oct. 23 at the H. Lee White Marine Museum on West First Street Pier in Oswego. He will reflect on his experiences as chaplain of the Titanic Historical Society. DeMass spent time developing close ties to a number of survivors and the families of those who perished with the ship. During his presentation, he will speak about their personal stories. ...	18th October 2011
Jarrow & Hebburn Gazette	TITANIC TALK WILL BE A NIGHT TO REMEMBER A RETIRED South Tyneside marine engineer is preparing to unravel the mysteries of the tragic Titanic luxury liner....	1st May 2010
Southern Daily Echo	A TITANIC SURVIVOR THE last living survivor of the Titanic will be giving a rare talk about how the fateful event shaped her life....	7th January 2008
New York Times	2 MRS. FIERMONTES HAVE A TALK AT TEA Husband's Mother, Who Also Is There, Likes Her Son's American Wife --- By The Associated Press --- ROME, Feb. 24---The two Mrs. Fiermontes, one American and one Italian, met for the first time today and sat right down to t...	25th February 1935
Washington Herald	NEWSPAPER MEN ALL MOURN MAJ. “ARCHIE” BUTT Memorial Services in Honor of Hero Who “Died Like a Man” Proposed by Members of Fourth Estate --- In little back offices, littered with paper and adorned principally by typewriters, in bustling news bureaus, in the press room of the Whi...	19th April 1912
thisishampshire.net	TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES ONE of the two last survivors of the 1912 sinking of the ill-fated Southampton liner, Titanic, has died.Throughout her life, Barbara West Dainton shunned publicity, refusing to talk about the loss of the Titanic and in the end she insisted her funeral, held earlier this week in Truro, was to take place before any public announcement of her death....	7th November 2007
Sarasota Herald-Tribune	EXPERT ON THE TITANIC WILL SPEAK AT LIBRARY Kenneyth Chamberlin, a member of the Titanic Historical Society, will present a talk about the 1912 sinking of the luxury ocean linear."The Titanic: A Night to Remember" will be at 1 p.m., Oct. 18, at the Manatee County Central Library, 1301 Barcarrota Blvd. W., Bradenton. Admission is free. The Friends of the Central Library are sponsoring the program....	6th October 2008
Halifax News Net	HISTORIAN TO TALK ABOUT TITANIC SINKING, OAK ISLAND LEGENDS Author and historian Dave Drummond will give lectures on Oak Island and the Titanic at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in August. Drummond, author of The Shipyard: Will It Float?, is a retired shipbuilder, born into a shipbuilding family that spanned three generations. His anecdotal writings, narrations, and discussions are factual, often surprising, and sprinkled with humour....
Chicago Daily News	LEARNS OF RELATIVE'S RESCUE Daniel Tobin of Denver, Col, now in Chicago and a guest at the Palmer house, passed most of the morning in the offices of the White Star line seeking information in regard to his sister, Mrs. J. G. Brown, also of Denver. When finally a report...	16th April 1912
TIME	REVEALING THE TITANIC'S SECRETS In his book, Titanic's Last Secrets, Brad Matsen tells the story of wreck divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler and their search for the truth about the Titanic's sinking in 1912. More than just a tragic iceberg crash, the story the divers uncovered is one of bad management, shoddy construction and an ocean liner that sank so quickly that most passengers didn't know what was happening until it was too late. Chatterton and Kohler talk to TIME about deep sea diving, investigating shipwrecks, and the allure of the Titanic....	6th October 2008
Washington Post	BABY THOUGHT LOST IS SAFE Mrs Aks and Child, Titanic Survivors, Reach Norfolk Norfolk, Va – April 24 – Mrs. Leah Aks and her infant, survivors from the Titanic disaster, has [sic] arrived here, but the woman was too ill to talk and had to go to bed. Mrs. Aks ca...	25th April 1912
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
New York Times	COL. ASTOR READY TO SERVE Would Willingly Go Out to the Philippines---Does Not Approve of W. W. Astor's Course --- Special to The New York Times --- RHINEBECK, N. Y., Aug. 10---Col. John J. Astor was home at Ferncliff yesterday, and the corresponde...	11th August 1899
Hudson Observer	ONE SURVIVOR REACHES HOME OF BROTHER Thomas Percy Oxenham, 22 years old, brother of Charles Oxenham, of 966Tonnele avenue, New Durham, is now resting after his frightfulexperience in the Titanic wreck. He came from Pondersend, Eng., to livewith his North Hudson re...	20th April 1912
Henry Aldridge & Son	TITANIC LETTER MAY FETCH £15000 An eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic will be the highlight of an auction of Titanic related artefacts this weekend. Laura Francatelli a servatn of Lucile Duff Gordon and Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon wrote the harrowing account for the 1912 British enquiry into the disaster presided over by Lord Mersey. Andrew Aldrifdge auctioneer was quoted "You see a lot of documents that talk briefly about the incident but this affidavit goes into strong details it talks about Lady Duff being sick the whole time about the lifeboat bobbing up and down about the screams" Aldridge suggests the letter may fetch £10000 to £15000 pounds. ...	11th October 2010
New York Times	KING TO TITANIC SURVIVOR Asks Stewardess He Meets About the Saving of Passengers --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, July 11---The King and Queen paid Liverpool a visit to-day in the course of their La...	12th July 1913
New York Times	FIERMONTE VISITS HIS WIFE IN NAPLES Italian Boxer Remains With Former Mrs. Astor an Hour Then Hurries Away --- POLICE TAKE HIS PASSPORT --- His First Wife Quits Her Job as He is Said to Have Provided for Her and Their Son --- NAPLES, Sunday, F...	10th February 1935
Daily Mail	THE MAY FAMILY Mrs May, across the way, lost her husband and eldest son. The son was married a year ago and his wife had a baby six weeks ago... Crossing the road I had a talk with the elder Mrs May, a slight, pale woman with dark sorrowful eyes. She ask...	18th April 1912
Chicago Daily News	FATHER OVERCOME WITH JOY FATHER OVERCOME WITH JOY Willaim Haines, a publisher, father of Mrs. Marion Smith, who was reported rescued from the doomed vessel, was prostrated with grief when ...	17th April 1912
New York Times	MORGAN HOPEFUL FOR OUR STOCKS Tells a Doubtful Fellow-Traveler He'll Change His Mind About Them --- A BIG DECLINE YESTERDAY --- Erie Issues Lead It-Dividend on the Second Preferred May Be Passed---Gold Coming Soon --- Special Cabl...	23rd March 1907
White Plains Daily Argus	TALKED WITH STEAD'S SPIRIT, WOMAN SAYS TELLS SPIRITUALISTS LOST EDITOR APPEARED TO HER Pittsburgh, April 24 - "Happy, but preparing to be with us in the spirit," was the way Mrs. Mary L. Feldman of Carrick, a delegate to the fifth annual convention of the Pennsylvania...	24th April 1912
The New York Times	SEALING THE LIPS OF TITANIC'S CREW Detained Sailors Are Herded on the Celtic Under Close Guard of Detectives. --- HAVE ORDERS NOT TO TALK --- Men Forget Instructions, However, Long Enough to Defend Escape of J. Bruce lsmay ---...	21st April 1912
Washington Times	CAPTAIN SMITH BELIEVED TITANIC TO BE UNSINKABLE That Captain Smith believed the Titanic and the Olympic to be absolutely unsinkable is recalled by a man who had a conversation with the veteran commander on a recent voyage of the Olympic. The talk was concerning the accident in whi...	16th April 1912
New York Times	STEAD'S FAREWELL TALK We're So Busy, He Thinks, We Don't Realize What Our Mission is --- William T. Stead, editor of The London Review of Reviews, made his last address on his present visit to this country before the Young Men's Christia...	6th May 1907
Washington Times	WIDENER WAS HEROIC TO END, SAYS FRIEND Traction Magnate Kissed Wife Good-By, Then Went Back To Die --- NEW YORK, April 19---Rushed to Philadelphia in a special train that had been sidetracked at the Communipaw station of the Pennsylvania railroad, in Jersey City, were the su...	19th April 1912
Wiltshire Times	TITANIC WIRELESS OPERATOR Son of Trowbridgian: Relatives in the Town The man who sent the fateful SOS wireless appeal for assistance - the Marconi Operator aboard the Titanic - is Mr. John George Phillips, son of Mr. G. A. Phillips, of Francombe, near Godalming...	20th April 1912
Lowell Sun	THOMAS WHITELEY : APPEARING AT THE MERRIMACK SQUARE THEATRE The attendance at both perfomances at the Merrimack Square theatre yesterday was extraordinarily large, and the many patrons seemed well satisfied with the bill as presented, for practically each number was received with loud applause. ...	28th May 1912
The New York Times	MORGAN IN LONDON Wants to See Titanic Launched---Health Never Better, He Says --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, May 19---By accident THE NEW YORK TIMES correspondent met J. Pierpont Morga...	20th May 1911
New York Times	3 OF RICE'S PARTY BACK FROM AMAZON Mrs. Rice, Professor and Mrs. Strong Return---Others in Expedition Go On --- STUDYING TROPICAL DISEASE --- Hope to Explore Regions in Brazil Never Before Traversed by White Men --- Among the passengers who ar...	4th October 1924
The Sun (New York)	SMITH THOUGHT HIS SHIP UNSINKABLE Titanic's Skipper Was Never in an Accident on High Seas Before This One --- LOVED OCEAN LIKE A BOY --- Grew Up With White Star Line and Had Its Confidence---Junior Officers on Board --- ...	16th April 1912
New York Times	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
Manitoba Free Press	FORTUNE FAMILY PARTED IN BOAT IN GOOD CHEER (Special Staff Correspondent) Women Had No Idea of Serious Condition of the Titanic Gave Their Money to Charlie For Safe-Keeping Until They Met Hugo Ross Was Ill in Bed When Disaster Occurred—Rescued Loathe to Talk...	20th April 1912
Chicago Sun-Times	ANN STRAUBE, 92, ONE OF LAST SURVIVORS OF TITANIC DISASTER Ann Straube, 92, one of the last survivors of the Titanic disaster, died Tuesday at her Northwest Side home. Born in 1897, Mrs. Straube was 14 at the time of the disaster. She boarded the Titanic on April 14, 1912, in Southampton, Englan...	2nd February 1990
New York Times	LADY DUFF-GORDON EXAMINED Declared She Merely Lent Her Name to Corporation, Lucile, Limited --- Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon visited the Federal Building yesterday with her counsel, Bainbridge Colby, to have a talk with Assistant United States District Attorney Wemple...	6th June 1911
Daily Home News	ROEBLING WENT DOWN IN TITANIC TRENTON, April 19---Ferdinand W. Roebling, jr., of 216 West Statestreet, late last night telephoned from New York to this city saying that neither Washington A. Roebling, 2d, nor Stephen W. Blackwell was among the rescued passengers on the Carpathia ...	19th April 1912
New York Times	MARITAL RIFT OVER, FIERMONTE RADIOS Italian Boxer Sends Word From Ship on Which Wife Sailed Suddenly on Saturday --- A DIVORCE WAS RUMORED --- Couple Were Wed Here Late in 1933---She Is the Former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick --- Enzo Fierm...	31st January 1935
	NEBRASKAN SURVIVOR RARELY SPOKE OF TRAGEDY Einar Gervasius Carlson, formerly Karlsson was born in Oakarshamn, Sweden on June 19, 1890. He was 21 years old when he and a friend, Johan Charles Asplund boarded the Titanic for the United States. They were originally booked on the ship Adriatic...
Newark Star	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 Telegraph	TITANIC FOR MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND - 1910 VISION Passengers to take railway connection to New York...	27th October 1910
	STANLEY LORD IN CONVERSATION WITH LESLIE HARRISON Leslie Harrison Extracts from a conversation between Captain Stanley Lord and Leslie Harrison, held on 19 August 1961....	19th August 1961
Philadelphia Inquirer	THAYER WATCH FOUND IN HOME A gold watch, reported missing following the discovery of the body of John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania , in his parked automobile last Friday, mysteriously turned up at his home yesterday. A f...	22nd September 1945
New York Times	THE SMART MYSTERY A young man of 20 years and a girl of 18 were the objects of a great deal of sympathy when the Titanic went down last April. They were the children, according to gossip, of JAMES MONTGOMERY SMART, who perished in the wreck. Orphaned and desolate, som...	8th January 1913
The Washington Post	RESCUED WOMAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO HEROIC MEN ON TITANIC From the lips of the woman who was saved from the Titanic came today one of the most glowing tributes yet paid to the heroism and self-sacrifice of the brave men who gave their lives that women and children might be spared a watery grave. ...	20th April 1912
PRLog.org	TITANIC SURVIVOR WAS PLANNING 100TH ANNIVERSARY CRUISE Jun 12, 2009 - Millvina Dean, the last surviving passenger from the Titanic who died recently, was planning to go on a 100th anniversary memorial cruise back across the Atlantic in 2012....	15th June 2009
The Stevens Point Journal	FATED SHIPS HOLD AFIRE Fireman Details How Flames Broke Out In Coal Bunkers After Leaving Southampton and Steamship Was Rushed Westward So That Blaze Might Be Extinguished in New York Port. ...	27th April 1912
Journal	JOHN JOSEPH DIAPER-CREW Geoff Knight Family historians uncover story of ‘lost’ Titanic survivor ...	28th February 2010
New York Times	BUYER FINDS TRADE IN GERMANY STIFLED E. P. Calderhead Say Factories There Are Crippled Because They Lack Materials --- ALL PRICES HAVE ADVANCED --- Berlin Streets, Cafes, and Hotels Deserted---Factory Workers in France Are Men Over 70 --- A repo...	23rd April 1915
Chicago Record-Herald	SLUMS MOURN STEAD : OLD-TIMERS IN CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN REMEMBER SLUMS MOURN STEAD Old-Timers in Chicago’s Chinatown Remember English Author as “Billy, the Bum” Cleaned Streets in Chicago ...	18th April 1912
Shoreham Herald	SHOREHAM MAN WAS TITANIC HERO A COOK on board the Titanic, who reportedly saved a baby from Captain Smith's arms, as the liner was sinking, was from Shoreham. Isaac Maynard was born in Shoreham on October 8, 1880. The son of Shoreham lifeboat coxswain Hiram Maynard, he was an entrÃ©e cook on the ill-fated voyage, which ended with the liner sinking on April 15, 1912....	15th July 2009
New York Times	UNSEALED DECREE IN ASTOR DIVORCE On Final Judgment Court Does Away with Secrecy by Order to Dutchess County Clerk ---- CROWD IN THE COURTROOM --- Report That Mrs. Astor Receives Only $50,000 a Year Not Contradicted --- The terms of the final...	5th March 1910
Daily Home News	VAN BILLIARD BOYS MAY HAVE STUCK TO FATHER Relatives, However, Hope That They May Be Among the Titanic Waifs in New York---Father Was Returning Home With Many Diamonds. ---------- Many tales of heroism displayed by men, women and children aboard the Steamer Titanic during the la...	23rd April 1912
	1976 LETTER FROM MRS. SNYDER ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE ON TITANIC Dennis Foley By letter postmarked 11/22/76, Mrs. Rawley Miller (Mrs. Snyder's daughter) was so wonderful as to send me the following typewritten letter, signed by Mrs. Snyder, with a handwritten note from Mrs. Miller. ...
Santa Barbara News-Press	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
Atlantic City Daily Press	LOCAL SURVIVOR DEFENDS ISMAY City Clerk Donnelly’s Cousin Sends Sympathetic Note to Official ---------- NOT A COWARD, BUT BRAVE AND GALLANT ---------- “Ismay was unjustly critcised and abused for his actions regarding the Ti...	5th May 1912
Chicago American	ISMAY ASKS TO LEAVE THE WRECK PROBE Washington, April 24---The Senate investigating committee probing the Titanic horror today declined to act on a new request by J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line, that owned the ill-fated ship, to quit t...	24th 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
New York Times	NO WIRELESS ORDER TO HOLD BACK NEWS Sea Gate Operator Explains the Messages to Bride and Cottam on the Carpathia --- SHIP THEN IN THE HARBOR --- "Keep Your Mouth Shut" Not Official, but Friendly Words of One Operator to Another ---...	27th April 1912
TDN	TITANIC'S HISTORY LIVES ON THROUGH LOCAL MAN Stuart's interest in the Titanic began when he encountered A Night to Remember as a freshman at West Bremerton High School. ...	5th June 2009
New York Times	POLICE ACT TO SIFT WALDMAN DEATHS Check Up Statements as to How Guggenheim Heirs Fell From Roof of Hotel --- NORRIS TO QUERY MOTHER --- Wants to Learn Her Version of the Tragedy---Criticizes the Removal of the Bodies --- TO CALL OTHER WITNES...	23rd October 1928
New York Times	POLICE ACT TO SIFT WALDMAN DEATHS Check Up Statements as to How Guggenheim Heirs Fell From Roof of Hotel --- NORRIS TO QUERY MOTHER --- Wants to Learn Her Version of the Tragedy---Criticizes the Removal of the Bodies --- TO CALL OTHER WITNES...	23rd October 1928
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle	SINKING OF TITANIC STILL HORROR TO COUPLE HONEYMOONING ON SHIP Margaret Frawley MRS. EDWARD BEANE, THEN BRIDE OF 17, SAW SHIP SINK AS SHE CRUISED NEARBY IN BOAT; HUSBAND SWAM AROUND TILL PICKED UP; NOW HAVE 2 CHILDREN It was a strange honeymoon for Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beane of 44 Michigan Street when on April 14, ...	15th April 1931