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| BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Mr. William Lahtinen a minister of religion aged 30 years lived in Minneapolis USA. He was returning from a visit to relatives in Kemi, Finland with his wife and Lyyli Silven whose father was Reverend Lahtinens cousin. During the visit... | ||||||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET No. 205. (English). The husband, a fireman on the Titanic was drowned. He is survived by his wife living in Canada and earning a living for her two children as a charwoman. Her eldest boy, fourteen years of age, works in an office, earning five dolla... | 1913 | ||||
| MEMORIAL PLAQUE Erected by the People of Winnipeg in memory of Their Fellow Citizens Mark Fortune; John Hugo Ross; Thompson Beattie; Charles A. Fortune; George E. Graham; and J. J. Borebank Who with 1484 others lost their lives when the Steamship Titanic Founded in ... | ||||||
| Washington Times | (1912) | LIVED NOT IN VAIN, SAYS BUTT’S FRIEND American People Can Learn Lesson From Major’s Life, Is Captain’s Opinion --- INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 22---Major Archibald Butt did not give his life in vain in the Titanic disaster, if the American people will take the lesson of his l... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| (1909) | STEPHEN & ANNIE HOLD Newly married at St. Keverne, Cornwall on 18 October 1909, Annie's first trip to America with her husband Stephen Hold was on board Teutonic. They arrived at New York on 24 November 1909 having departed from Southampton. The ship's manifest sh... | 1909 | ||||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET No. 135. (American). Girl, 6 years old, deserted by step-father, was saved by her nurse, on trip to her grandparents in New York. Needed new supply of clothing. ($100).... | 1913 | ||||
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FOXNews.com | (2009) | AMERICAN RESEARCHERS DISPUTE CLAIMS OF 'POLITE' TITANIC VICTIMS American researchers are firing back at a Swiss university researcher's report that 'politeness' led to the deaths of 225 British passengers aboard the Titanic.... | 23rd January 2009 | ||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET Case number 384. (English). A mother 31 years of age, and two small children, coming to join her husband in Michigan lost baggage, insured for $125 and $200 in cash. They received hospital care, clothing, and $100 from other American sources of relie... | 1913 | ||||
| The Times | (1904) | MRS. PIRRIE AWARDED FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF BELFAST BELFAST, APRIL 20 The freedom of the city of Belfast, unanimously voted by the council some weeks ago, was formally presented to Mrs. Pirrie at the town-hall to-day in the presence of a large and distinguished company. The mu... | 21st April 1904 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MR. MORGAN ANNOYED Resents Intimation That He Would Deal with "Mona Lisa" Thieves --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- FLORENCE, April 12---J. Pierpont Morgan is much annoyed over the ... | 13th April 1912 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | (1912) | DIRECTORS OF BANK MOURN FOR SUTTON Collingswood Board May Elect Successor to President Who Was Titanic Victim --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH The Titanic disaster is the cause of a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Collingswood National Bank t... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | TO DEDICATE NEW CAMPANILE Italy's Invitation Includes Engraving by American Artist --- VENICE, March 27---J. Pierpont Morgan has written a cordial letter to the committee, announcing that he will be in Venice on April 23 for the inauguration of t... | 28th March 1912 | |||
| RED CROSS FUND REPORT ON ASPLUNDS (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number P. 114. Asplund. Widow, two children and mother received a grant of £150. Farmer from Sweden, returning from visit to relatives. Aged 40 years, born 7th ... | ||||||
| RED CROSS COMMITTEE REPORT Bracken, Mr. James. H. Missing. American. Home New Mexico. (From The Emergency and Relief booklet by the American Red Cross, 1913). No. 51. (American). Husband, travelling alone, was drowned. He was carrying with hi... | ||||||
| Associated Press | (1912) | PROFOUND GRIEF FELT OVER PARIS - LADY DUFF GORDON AND HER HUSBAND PROBABLY AMONG THE DEAD By Associated Press. Paris, April 16. - The American colony in Paris was plunged into profound grief by definite news of the stupendous loss of life caused by the wreck of the Titanic. Hundreds of prominent American residents and Ameri... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | THE LOSS OF JAMES CLINCH SMITH Amid the maelstrom of mourning in connection with the recent disaster, (which was indeed "Titanic,") the city press seems to have overlooked the loss of one of our most estimable citizens. I refer to Mr. James Clinch Smith, a bro... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| Santa Barbara News-Press | (1956) | MRS. BERTHE BOURLARD, WORLD TRAVELER, PLANS ANOTHER EUROPEAN TRIP Mrs. Berthe Leroy Bourlard, who survived the sinking of the “Titanic” with her patroness, Mrs. Walter Douglas, keeps her picture and the volume of her verses, which contains a poem entitled “Titanic” among her souvenirs of 35 years as traveling compa... | 27th May 1956 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | FROM POPE AND KING By the Associated Press FROM POPE AND KING Messages of Sympathy Over Titanic Disaster Are Issued ROME, April 17.- Both Pope Pius and King Victor Emmanuel have expressed their deep sympathy for the victims ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1946) | COL. WILSON POTTER Big-Game Hunter Obtained Heads for Smithsonian Institution --- PHILADELPHIA, June 12 (AP)---Col. Wilson Potter, big-game hunter and University of Pennsylvania football star in 1906 and 1907, died last night at his home here after a long... | 13th June 1946 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN VISION OF ART Wants America to Have Institution an Janiculum, in Rome --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 3---J. Pierpont Morgan spent the whole morning on the top of Janiculum, t... | 4th April 1912 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | A CITIZEN'S FUND IS OPENED IN TORONTO Mayor Made Annoucement Today---Treasurer will Receive the Money ------------ AND NEWSPAPERS MAY, TOO ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1904) | MRS. PIRRIE HONORED BELFAST, April 5 --- At the meeting of the City Corporation to-day Alderman John McCormick moved a resolution electing and admitting Mrs. Pirrie an honorary burgess of the city of Belfast in recognition of her signal... | 6th April 1904 | |||
| New York Times | (1926) | LOVE LIFTS JAIL SENTENCE OF LAWRENCE VAIL WHEN FRENCHMAN HE STRUCK WINS HIS SISTER PARIS, Dec. 29 (AP)---Love has found a way to make a new, Franco-American match---a blow over the head with a champagne bottle. The Frenchman who was hit, Captain Allain Lemerdy, son of a General, is going to marry Clothilde Vail, sister of the Ameri... | 30th December 1926 | |||
| Rahway Daily Record | (1912) | ARTHUR KEEFE MAY BE MISSING ON LINER TITANIC Rahway people, while horrified at the astounding disaster which overtook the gigantic ocean liner Titanic and at the terrible loss of life which accompanied the disaster, have a close personal feeling in the matter, inasmuch as one of its citizens, a... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET Case number 302. (English). A mother, sixty-three years of age, was drowned, while coming to this country to make her home with her daughter, whose husband had recently died, leaving two children aged six and two years. These children were to have be... | 1913 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | WHY MAJOR BUTT, THE PRESIDENT’S AIDE, WENT TO ROME By a Veteran Diplomat --- That President Taft has made up his mind to follow the custom of the non-Catholic Courts and Governments in Europe, on the subject of the precedence to be accorded to Cardinals in the United States, no matter w... | 14th April 1912 | |||
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| New York Times | (1919) | 12 DEAD IN CEDAR RAPIDS But Searchers Still Hunt for 20 More Missing --- CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 23---With twelve bodies recovered from the ruins of the Douglas Starch Company's plant, wrecking crews today and tonight searched the debris for the... | 24th May 1919 | |||
| RED CROSS REPORT AND MEMORIAL McGowan, Annie, Miss (later Mrs. Straube). Saved in Lifeboat number 14. Born 5th July 1895, died 30th January 1990 and was buried in the All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois. (From The Emergency and Relief booklet by the ... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1924) | AMAZON TRAFFIC HINDERED Booth Line Says Disturbances Make Deliveries Uncertain --- Political disturbances at Manaos, State of Amazonas, have interrupted navigation on the River Amazon. The Booth American Shipping Corporation, 17 Battery Place, announced yester... | 22nd August 1924 | |||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET No. 128. (English). Paving cutter, 24 years old. ($50). Accompanied by Mr. H. Williams.... | 1913 | ||||
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Vialuxe News | (2008) | TITANIC DNA FOUNTAIN PENS MADE WITH REAL WRECKAGE The American version of an earlier story.... | 25th May 2008 | ||
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(2005) | NEW YORK (American Line) ex-City of New York, Inman Line As Titanic left Southampton 10 April 1912, the suction and wave action of her propellers and huge bulk tore New York loose from her mooring in tandem with Oceanic... | 20th July 2005 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN MAY ACT AS A PEACE ENVOY Berlin Thinks That, Unofficially, He Will Try to End the Turkish-Italian Conflict --- TO VISIT CONSTANTINOPLE --- After Seeing Kaiser at Venice---Belief That Turkish Officials Will Listen to Him Respectful... | 9th April 1912 | |||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET No. 55. (English.). Housemaid, 21 years old. ($100). Insurance claim B108. Property $283.61 cents.... | 1913 | ||||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET Case number 309. (English). Youth, 19 years of age, lost clothing and $200 in cash. ($100).... | 1913 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | TAFT CONCERNED FOR BUTT Chance of Major's Safety a Faint One, but President Holds to It --- WASHINGTON, April 16---The White House was not a cheerful place to-day, for President Taft, most of his Cabinet, and many callers were deeply concerned over the probabl... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET Case number 276. (Irish). Unmarried woman, 23 years old, coming to live with her sister in New Jersey, was severely injured. ($50).... | 1913 | ||||
| New York Times | (1904) | CLUBMEN AND THEIR CLUBS [Note: This is extracted from a longer article about several prominent members of New York social clubs.] J. Bruce Ismay, who succeeds Charles [sic; should be "Clement"] A. Griscom as President of the International Mercantile Marine Co... | 28th February 1904 | |||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET No. 81 (English). Theological student, 25 years of age, coming to finish his studies, lost his books and baggage and suffered from exposure. He is obliged to work his way through school. ($300).... | 1913 | ||||
| New York Times | (1913) | CAPT. ROSTRON GETS MEDAL Taft and Bryce Both Praising the Titanic Rescuer --- WASHINGTON, March 1---President Taft presented to Capt. Arthur H. Rostron to-day the gold medal authorized by Congress for his courage and gallantry in rescuing the survivors of the T... | 2nd March 1913 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | AIDS FIGHT FOR LONGER PIERS Isidor Straus Points Out Their Commercial Advantage to New York --- Isidor Straus, in an interview yesterday, urged that the Government permit the lengthening of the existing piers of the Port of New York, in order to accommodate the ne... | 9th January 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | LADY DUFF-GORDON SAILS Coming to Open an American Branch of Her London Costume Shop --- SpeciaI Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Feb. 26---Lady Duff-Gordon sailed on the Lusitania to-day to put the finishing touch... | 27th February 1910 | |||
| New York Times | (1901) | BIG BET ON SHAMROCK DOUBTED BY BROKERS F. H. Brooks Does Not Believe Any One Will Give Odds of 5 to 3 --- J. A. Chambers of Pittsburg Says that No Such Wager Was Made in That City --- There is doubt in Wall Street and thereabouts as to the "big money" said to h... | 5th September 1901 | |||
| New York Times | (1923) | YOUNG VAIL SENTENCED TO PRISON IN CAPRI But He and His Wife, Formerly Miss Guggenheim, Are Allowed to Leave After Appeal --- CAPRI, Italy, Oct. 18---Lawrence Vail, who married Marguerite Guggenheim, daughter of the late Benjamin Guggenheim, American copper magnate, was arrest... | 19th October 1923 | |||
| New York Times | (1935) | 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 | |||
| Philadelphia Inquirer | (1958) | CROLIUS April 21, 1958. OLIVE POTTER, wife of the late Allen Crolius, of Alden Park Manor, services Wed., 1 P.M., Kirk & Nice, 6301 Germantown Ave. Interment private. In lieu of flowers kindly make contributions to American Cancer Society.... | 23rd April 1958 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | STRAUS FOUNTAIN AWARD TO LUKEMAN With Evarts Tracy, Architect, Sculptor Wins in Contest Including 59 Designs --- HE'LL GET $10,000 FOR WORK --- Four Other "Next Best" Designs Get Prize Money from $500 Down to $100 Each --- From a collection of fift... | 21st March 1913 | |||
| New York Times | (1935) | 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 | |||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Thomas Mudd, a letter from his nephew says that the lad was just sixteen years old and one of a family of thirteen children. In order to give him a chance of a better life he was sent to American to join his brothers George and James who were already... | ||||||
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WSHM-TV | (2008) | BAYSTATE NATIVE'S TITANIC ARTIFACTS SOLD The last American survivor of the Titanic was a Massachusetts native.Although Lillian Asplund died several years ago, only her memory will remain in the state since the artifacts of her trip were sold unexpectedly at an auction in England.... | 22nd April 2008 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | NEW VERSION OF BUTT'S TRIP Was Passenger on Titanic at the Whim of Close Friend --- Richard B. Watrous, Secretary of the American Civic Association, with offices in Washington, watched the bulletin boards in Times Square with great anxiety yesterday to see if any... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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nwi.com | (2007) | LOCAL MUSICAL PRODUCTION IS 'TITANIC' IN EVERY WAY The American Dream is well represented in "Titanic: The Musical" in the eyes of Allen Horner, who is bringing the extravaganza to Valparaiso's Memorial Opera House. "The most expensive thing you could do on earth then was to ride the Titanic across the Atlantic Ocean, and all these millionaires did it, the Guggenheims, the Astors, the Thayers," he said. ... | 13th February 2007 | ||
| (1912) | PICTURE STAR GIVEN RECEPTION AT WEBER'S Dorothy Gibson Introduced, Applauded by "Movie" Crowd A distinct treat was enjoyed by a large audience of devotees of the motion pictures yesterday when Mr. White, manager of Weber’s New York, spied among the evening’s patrons M... | 1912 | ||||
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1985 A TITANIC FIND This French card commemorates the discovery of the wreck of the Titanic by a French-American team on 1 September 1985.... | |||||
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Bristol Herald Courier | (2007) | 9/11 OF ITS TIME LESSONS, TRAGEDY OF TITANIC DISASTER STILL RESONATE Every American generation seems to endure a moral catastrophe, an event so traumatic and terrible that it shakes the era's complacency and crushes the faith of an age, of a people, and becomes a moment where a new before and after is established. Before Sept. 11, 2001, before President John F. Kennedy's assassination, before Pearl Harbor, there was the Titanic disaster.... | 30th April 2007 | ||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | BODY OF CHARLES ASPLUND, TITANIC VICTIM, WILL BE BURIED IN WORCESTER, WITHOUT EXPENSE TO SURVIVING FAMILY Subscription papers will be circulated, today and next week in the Slater building, State Mutual building and courthouse, in an effort to raise money for Mrs. Charles Asplund and family left in strained circumstances owing to the loss of Mr. Asplund ... | 27th April 1912 | |||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET Case number 378. (Irish). A housemaid, 26 years of age, returning from a visit to Ireland, was lost, leaving dependent parents in Ireland. This Committee refunded to a brother in New York $50 of the money advanced to his sister for passage, which he ... | 1913 | ||||
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Wired.com | (2009) | SEPT. 30, 1861: A NOVELIST WITH A NOSE FOR DISASTER 1861: American novelist and short-story writer Morgan Robertson is born. His 1898 novel, Futility, eerily foretells one of the 20th century’s great man-made disasters: the sinking of the Titanic The similarities between Futility and subsequent actual events are startling...... | 30th September 2009 | ||
| New York Times | (1934) | EX-WIFE GIVES UP CLAIM ON W. K. DICK Bride of Fiermonte, Boxer, and Once Widow of J. J. Astor, Rejects Dower --- GOT DIVORCE LAST JULY --- She Also Relinquished $300,000 Income From First Husband's Estate When She Wed in 1916 --- Mrs. Enzo Fierm... | 21st March 1934 | |||
| New York Times | (1899) | $5,000,000 STERILIZED AIR COMPANY TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 4---The American Sterilized Air and Transportation Company, with a capital of $5,000,000, filed papers of incorporation with the Secretary of State to-day. The company is formed to develop a patented system of sterilizing, dehyd... | 5th August 1899 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | FUND FOR RELIEF OF MRS. ASPLUND AND HER CHILDREN IS GROWING SLOWLY Money for the Worcester Titanic relief fund that is to be used for the financial assistance of Mrs. Charles Asplund and her two children who survived the Titanic disaster, in which her husband and three children were lost, is coming slowly to the rel... | 30th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | MISS ROSENBAUM HURT IN FRANCE ROUEN, France, Aug. 21---Miss Edith Rosenbaum, an American, was seriously injured to-day in an automobile accident while on the way to this city from Paris. A German merchant named Lewe, who was driving the car, was killed.... | 22nd August 1911 | |||
| Evening Telegraph | (1912) | STEAMSHIP DIRECTOR A VICTIM New York, April 23. - It was learned today that Jonkheer J. G. Reuchlin,managing director of the Holland-American Steamship Line, had gone down with the Titanic. Mr. Reuchlin was coming to this country to arrange business relative to the opening of t... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette | (1915) | TITANIC OWNERS OFFER TO SETTLE FOR $664,000 New York, Dec 17 – The White Star line has agreed to pay $664,000 in settlement of all claims arising for the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, when more than 1,5000 persons were drowned, the line announced here to-day. Of this amo... | 18th December 1915 | |||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF FUND Case number 13. (English). A boy, seventeen years of age, coming to join his father and work with him as a gardener, was lost. His mother, 46 years of age, and another son, 23, and a daughter 14, were in England. The mother was completely broken down... | 1913 | ||||
| (1911) | MISS DOROTHY GIBSON, HARRISON FISHER MUSE, NOW PICTURE STAR Miss Dorothy Gibson, the well-known beauty who is the muse of Mr. Harrison Fisher, the popular illustrator of feminine charms, has forsaken the studio of the artist for that of the motion picture. Miss Gibson, who is the sitter for man... | 1911 | ||||
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Telegraph.co.uk | (2009) | ENGLISHMEN ON TITANIC LESS LIKELY TO SURVIVE THAN AMERICANS 'DUE TO GOOD MANNERS' Englishmen aboard the Titanic were less likely to survive than their American counterparts because of their good manners, a new study suggests.... | 21st January 2009 | ||
| Guernsey Evening Press | (1912) | UNTITLED April/May 1912 In the boat with Mrs. Renouf were the Misses Lillian Bentham (of Jersey) and Miss Emily Rugg. When the boat left the ship's side there were 30 on board, but later 30 men were taken from a raft, of whom one... | 1912 | |||
| Daily Sketch | (1912) | THE SADDEST OF MANY SAD STORIES One of the saddest of the many sad stories which has to be told concerns the fate of Mr. Daniel W. Marvin, a young American who was returning with his wife from the honeymoon trip spent in Europe. Mr Marvin is missing, but M... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | MORE FROM JERSEY MAY HAVE PERISHED IN SEA PATERSON, April 20---Some residents of this city and of Hawthorne fear that several persons near to them perished on the Titanic. The supposed victims are John Mechan, of this city; Arthur Ford, formerly of th... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | RAHWAY MAN ON LOST SHIP Arthur Keefe Passenger on Liner Titanic ---------- SISTER ANXIOUSLY AWAITS NEWS OF DISASTER ---------- (Special to the Journal) Rahway, April 16---Almost frantic with anxiety and grief, Mrs. Margaret O’Brien... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Dramatic Mirror | (1911) | GOSSIP OF THE STUDIOS Dorothy Gibson has been engaged as leading woman for the New American stock of the Éclair Company. Her portrait appears on another page. She had gained some attention on the stage before going into pictures and had also posed for Harrison Fisher, the... | 9th August 1911 | |||
| Centerville Daily Citizen | (1912) | FRANK LEFEVRE BEREAVED MINER CALLED ELOPER - MRS. DUPONT SAYS HE FLED FROM FRANCE WITH HER BOTH MAY BE DEPORTED - EMIGRANT INSPECTOR WHITEFIELD INVESTIGATES CASE AT MYSTIC - WOMAN SAYS HE GOT $2,000 FROM HER In Appanoose county’s foreign colony there lurks, in all probability, many a romance and as romances go, frequently there are sombre sides to them. The Citizen’s readers will recall having read some time ago of the loss of the wife and four childr... | 13th July 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | MILLET, THE ARTIST, IS REPORTED AMONG THE MANY DROWNED Francis David Millet, the famous artist and author, who is said to havebeen among those lost in the wreck of the Titanic, painted the two largemural American Indian scenes at the Hudson Court House. Among the otherpublic buildi... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF No. 76. (English). A dairy man, 29 years old, was drowned. He was accompanied by his wife, who was saved, and intended to settle in California. There are no children. The widow estimated the property loss at $1,200; from other relief funds in this co... | 1913 | ||||
| Town and Country | (1902) | MASTERS OF THE SEA The Personal Side of Some of the Popular Captains of Atlantic Liners "I suppose Captain V— is still in command of the A?" asked a woman, as she was about to engage her passage on one of the fleet trans... | 19th April 1902 | |||
| New York Times | (1924) | RICES BELIEVED SAFE Washington Not Worried About Explorers---Heard From Them Aug. 6 --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, Aug. 16---There is no uneasiness here about the safety of Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice of New York and his w... | 17th August 1924 | |||
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Foxnews.com | (2006) | LAST US SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES AT 99 BOSTON - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died, a funeral home said Sunday. She was 99. Asplund, who was just 5 years old, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg.She died Saturday at her home in Shrewsbury, said Ronald E. Johnson, vice president of the Nordgren Memorial Chapel in Worcester, Mass.... | 7th May 2006 | ||
| New York Times | (1930) | MRS. M. S. WALDMAN WINS PARIS DIVORCE Two Other American Women Also Receive Decrees From the French Courts --- TRAGIC ACCIDENT RECALLED --- Waldman Children Fell to Death From Penthouse Apartment Here in October, 1928 --- PARIS, Feb. 25 (AP)---Th... | 26th February 1930 | |||
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AP | (2006) | TITANIC LOCKET FETCHES $100,000 A locket that went down with the Titanic and a survivor's handwritten account of the 1912 disaster fetched tens of thousands of dollars at auction Saturday.American passenger Helen Churchill Candee's 36–page description of the ship's sinking, which fetched US$85,000 in the sale, describes how she gave her locket to Edward Kent, a friend on board the ship, for safekeeping after the Titanic hit the iceberg that destroyed it.The locket, which sold for US$100,000, was found in the drowned Kent's jacket pocket when his body was recovered soon after his death.... | 4th May 2006 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | THE SMART HEIRS FOUND? Children of Titanic Victim Believed to be in Belgian Convent --- BRUSSELS, Aug. 29---The long-sought son and daughter of the late Montgomery Smart of New York, a Titanic victim, are believed to be in a Belgian convent. Their names are G... | 30th August 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1939) | MRS. E. B. SHERFESEE, ONCE HOOVER AIDE Head of the American Fund for French Wounded Won Croix de Guerre---Titanic Survivor --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., Dec. 29---Mrs. Emily Borie Sherfesee, wife of Forsythe Sherfesee, former fiananc... | 30th December 1939 | |||
| The Scotsman | (1907) | THE MAURETANIA'S SECOND VOYAGE The Mauretania sails from Liverpool on her second voyage this evening, being due to leave the Liverpool landing stage at seven o’clock. All her saloon accommodation, including the Regal Suites, is fully booked. Amongst the passengers are Lord Stra... | 14th December 1907 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | FATHER AND BROTHER ON TITANIC’S DEATH LIST ROEBLING, April 30---In the death list of the Titanic Mrs. Olaf Swanberg of Third avenue, yesterday discovered the names of her father and brother among the third-class passengers who were lost. The brother, a prosperous settler in Minnesota, had re... | 30th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN TO MEET KAISER Report That Settlement of Italian-Turkish War Will Be Discussed --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, April 5---According to a dispatch from Modena, sent out by the Ex... | 6th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1904) | GRISCOM IS NO LONGER HEAD OF SHIP COMBINE J. Bruce Ismay is Chosen for Its President --- FREE HAND FOR THE NEW MAN --- His Predecessor Remains in the Company as Chairman of the Board of Directors---Ismay to Live in New York --- Clement A. Griscom ... | 24th February 1904 | |||
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Canada.com | (2006) | LILLIAN GERTRUD ASPLUND, LAST U.S. SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 99 Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, has died, family and friends said Sunday. She was 99.Asplund, who was five years old that night in 1912, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. "She even said she saw the ship slip into the water," said Philip Maloof, her lawyer and close friend. "She was the last one (left) in the world to actually see the disaster." ... | 8th May 2006 | ||
| New York Times | (1946) | OBITUARY: MRS. DOROTHY BRULATOR By Wireless to THE NEW TORK TIMES --- PARIS, Feb. 20---Mrs. Dorothy Brulator, an American who was residing here, was found dead in her hotel room today. Physicians reported that she had died of a congestion, having suffered recently fr... | 21st February 1946 | |||
| New York Times | (1931) | RED CROSS BOARD FILLS VACANCIES WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (AP)---Chief Justice Hughes presided today as the incorporators of the American Red Cross elected five new members to fill vacancies caused by deaths. Those named were Newton D. Baker, Frank T. Heffelfinger of Minneapolis, J. Fran... | 10th December 1931 | |||
| New York Times | (1901) | INCORPORATED IN NEW JERSEY TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 31---These companies were incorporated here to-day: The Central Sugar Company, to manufacture beet sugar; capital, $1,500,000. The incorporators are T. L. Bragaw, Jr., M. L. Bonden, J. J. Treacy, all of Jersey City... | 1st February 1901 | |||
| AMERICAN RED CROSS RELIEF BOOKLET [Case no 286] (English). An aged English woman was drowned while coming to this country, after the recent death of her husband, to make her home with her only daughter. The daughter's husband, a waiter, at the time of the disaster was recoveri... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION ON MR. WILLER (WELLER) Weller, Mr. Aaron. (also listed as Harry Willer). Missing. En route to his wife at 1330 South Halstead Street, Chicago, Illinois. From Russia. Tailor aged 37 years (Aaron Weller). Had lived in America for several years but returned to London after fa... | ||||||
| Evening News | (1988) | FRANK MILLET Frank Millet, 65, a distinguished artist, author and war correspondent who had lived the last 25 years of his life in Broadway, and was widely popular in the picturesque Cotswold village. He was born in America, served as a drummer boy w... | 24th January 1988 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | WHITE STAR LINE AFTER CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC Service to Channel Ports Also to be Installed by Cunard Line --- WILL RIVAL GERMAN BOATS --- Mails to Two-thirds of England and All Scotland and Ireland Will Be Delayed by This Action --- The announcem... | 8th January 1907 | |||
| ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Lemberopoulos, (Exact spelling should be Lymperopoulos) Mr. Peter. Missing. Greek. En route to Stamford, CT. Aged 30 years. Has a memorial in St. Johns Churchyard, Agios Sostis community, Messinia, Greece. This memorial was unveiled on 3rd Ju... | ||||||
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NY Daily News (4/20/08 | (2008) | TITANIC TICKET MAKES WAVES A ticket for the Titanic's ill-fated voyage belonging to the last survivor with memories of the disaster sold for $65,772 at a British auction. Lillian Asplund who died in 2006 at the age of 99 was just five years old when the Titanic hit an iceber and sank during her maiden voyage from England to New York. Her father and three siblings were among the 1500 people who died. Asplund was the last American survivor of the disaster and the last with memories of it. Asplund's ticket--bought by a collector from the United States--was among 364 items sold at auction.... | 20th April 2008 | ||
| Washington Times | (1912) | WILLIAM T. STEAD KNOWN AS FAMOUS NEWSPAPER MAN William Thomas Stead, an English newspaper man, attained wide notoriety as the man who introduced the methods of American journalism into England. Before his day the interview, illustrations, and extra editions were unknown to British journalism. Tho... | 16th April 1912 | |||
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(1911) | DOROTHY GIBSON IN "HANDS ACROSS THE SEA" A scene from "Hands Across the Sea," produced by Éclair-America, the company’s debut film and Dorothy Gibson’s first starring role. She actually took several parts in this movie, which was an historical tableau enacting events of the American Revolut... | 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | SMART HEIRS SEEM NOW TO BE A MYTH No Mention of Widely Sought Children in Will of Wealthy Man Lost on Titanic --- HE NEVER SPOKE OF THEM --- His Friends Recall Now After World Search That They Merely Thought That He Had Two --- Two children,... | 7th January 1913 | |||
| Daily Sketch | (1912) | THE SURVIVING OFFICERS OF THE TITANIC The surviving officers of the Titanic - Messrs. Lightoller, Lowe, Boxhall and Pitman - reached Liverpool by the same ship as Mr. Ismay - the Adriatic. The fifth officer, Mr. Lowe, who told the American Court of Inquiry that he asked Mr. Is... | 13th May 1912 | |||
| New York Herald | (1912) | EDWARD A. KENT Edward A. Kent, who is a well-known architect at Buffalo, N. Y. and whose brother, William Kent, is an architect in New York city, was a passenger on board the Titanic who is not reported among the rescued. Mr. Kent, who is fifty-eight years old, is... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago American | (1912) | 2 MEN BRIBE TITANIC SAILORS; SAVE LIVES Vienna, April 25.—The story of how two men passengers were saved from the sinking Titanic by bribing a sailor to disguise them as sailors and get them places in a lifeboat was told in a letter received here to-day by Mme. Cardeza from her hu... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1901) | A PLAN TO FEED ENGLAND Cold Storage and Shipping Company's Plants in English Cities --- They Will Contain Products Worth Hundreds of Millions---Americans Conceive the Scheme --- J. M. Smart, who is connected with the Southampton Cold Storage Com... | 26th May 1901 | |||
| New York Times | (1914) | MANILA HONORS BUTT Cathedral Dedicated to Titanic Hero and to Dr. Freer --- MANILA, May 1---The Rt. Rev. C. H. Brent, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Philippines, to-day dedicated memorial windows in the American Cathedral here to Major Archibald W. Bu... | 11th May 1914 | |||
| (1912) | LETTER TO HIS OLD FRIEND ALFRED PARSONS ''On board R.M.S. Titanic April 11, 1912. Dear Alfred I got yours this morning and was glad to hear from you. I thought I told you my ship was the Titanic. She has everything but taxicabs and theatres., Table D' Hote, Restau... | 11th April 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1918) | CARPATHIA SUNK; 5 OF CREW KILLED 215 Saved from Cunard Liner, Which Is Sent Down Off the Coast of Ireland --- HIT BY THREE TORPEDOES --- Was Bound for an American Port to Take Some More Soldiers to the Other Side --- Copyight, 1918, by The N... | 20th July 1918 | |||
| New York Times | (1935) | FIERMONTE TO BE BROKER Husband of Former Mrs. Astor Plans Career on Return Here --- ROME, March 6 (AP)---Enzo Fiermonte said today the threatened trouble in Abyssinia, in which he may become involved as a soldier for Italy, brought him and his American wife m... | 7th March 1935 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | SHIPS SIGHT MORE ICEBERGS Italian Liner Finds One in Lat. 40:39, Extremely Far South --- Captains of incoming steamships are still bringing reports of ice. Capt. Domeniconi of the Principe di Piemonte, in yesterday from Naples, reported that on April... | 27th April 1912 | |||
| Paterson Morning Call | (1912) | WILLIAM C. JOHNSON, JR. [The opening paragraphs of this article, which do not relate to Mr. Johnson, have been omitted.] The death of William C. Johnson, Jr., of Hawthorne, has been confirmed when his parents received a message reading as follows: “William C.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | LIFEBOAT NOT FILLED, KARL BEHR DECLARES NEW YORK, April 20---Karl H. Behr, the tennis player, who went to Australia in 1910 with the American team and was one of the Titanic’s survivors, tells that he was with a party of four, whom he hurried to the Titanic’s top deck at the first alarm.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | DR. SHANNON LOST FRIEND ON TITANIC John George Phillips, the young Englishman who was in charge of the wireless room on the ill-fated Titanic, and who paid with his life the price of his faithfulness to duty, was to have been a visitor in this city while in this country, of Dr. P. A. ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | ROSTRON GETS MEDAL TO-DAY Rescuer of Titanic Survivors Arrives in Washington to Receive Honor --- WASHINGTON, Feb. 28---Capt. A. H. Rostron, who, as commander of the steamship Carpathia, directed the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic disaster, arrived here ... | 1st March 1913 | |||
| Providence Journal | (1912) | STEAD'S BROTHER INDIGNANT-ASKS WHAT RIGHT ISMAY SAVED FROM WRECK London, April 20, 1912- Alfred Stead, brother of William T. Stead who went down with the Titanic is thoroughly aroused over the circumstances under which so many persons went to their doom in the waters of the north Atlantic. He said yesterday: "Spe... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | STARTS NEW SEARCH FOR SMART CHILDREN Friend of Man Lost on the Titanic Has Found Many Persons Who Heard Father Speak of Them --- A FORMER QUEST IN VAIN --- Lawyer Ryan Thinks Children Provided for by Mother's Will May Not Want Father's Estate ---... | 9th March 1913 | |||
| New York Times | (1932) | LAWRENCE VAIL WEDS WRITER IN NICE, FRANCE Marries Miss Kay Boyle at City Hall---His Former Wife Acts as Matron of Honor --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NICE, France, April 2---Lawrence Vail of New York and Kay Boyle of Cincinnati, American authors, wer... | 3rd April 1932 | |||
| Chicago American | (1912) | LOSES FAMILY BY WRECK Nels Paulsson, a Chicago man living at 940 Thompson street, had learned to-day that he had lost his wife and four little children in the Titanic disaster. Although he knew that his family had embarked on the boat he had delayed making inquiry... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | NATHAN STRAUS TOLD That Isidor and Mrs. Straus Were Not Saved---Son Doesn't Know Yet --- A cablegram was sent yesterday to Nathan Straus, who is in Rome, breaking the news to him that Isidor Straus and Mrs. Straus are among the missing from the Titanic di... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Evening News | (1986) | MILLET ''Drowned, too was a famous man from Broadway - 65-years-old F. D. Millet, a distinguished artist, author and war correspondent who lived at Russell House on the main approach from Evesham into the picturesque Worcestershire village. ... | 5th August 1986 | |||
| North American | (1912) | SEVEN WILKES-BARRE PERSONS ARE MISSING Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 18---Charles Thomas, a small storekeeper of this city; Mrs. Joseph Thomas and infant son, Anthony Yosbik, Joseph and Peter Simon and Brenton Harry, all of this city,... | 19th April 1912 | |||
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PRNewswire | (2009) | SAVE THE TITANIC FOUNDATION ASSEMBLES 100TH YEAR TITANIC ANNIVERSARY GALA AND CONCERT The Save the Titanic Foundation (http://www.savethetitanic.org) today announced details of the 2012 Global telecast concert event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Titanic. The 100th anniversary event will be staged simultaneously at Madiso... | 10th September 2009 | ||
| L'Eclaireur de Nice et du Sud-Ouest | (1912) | MRS. SCHABERT, MR. MOCK, MR. AND MRS. L.P. SMITH, MR. STEWART FROM NICE On board the Titanic were Mrs. Paul Schabert (American) and Mr. Phil E. Mock, who bought their tickets from the White Star Line agency in Nice and Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Smith who booked their passage from Monte-Carlo. Mr.... | 18th April 1912 | |||
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DESIGN FOR AMERICAN TITANIC MEMORIAL Part of an original design submitted in 1912 for a Titanic memorial in Washington, to be set up by women in honour of the men who gave their lives. This is a work by Mr Dana Gibson, which was ultimately rejected. Gibson places a hammer in t... | |||||
| New York Times | (1953) | MRS. HOKAN STEFFANSON Page 31, column 2 Mrs. Mary Eno Steffanson died last night at her home, 56 East Fifty-seventh Street, after an illness of several months. She was 71 years old. Mrs. Steffanson, daughter of the late John Chester Eno, was the... | 14th December 1953 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | SEEK THE CHILDREN OF TITANIC VICTIM John M. Smart's Son and Daughter at School in Europe, Ignorant of Father's Fate --- HE HAD JUST VISITED THEM --- But Said Nothing of His Personal Affairs to His New York Business Associates --- By Marconi Tra... | 5th June 1912 | |||
| La Presse | (1912) | TWO SURVIVORS Two Survivors This afternoon, the Daily Mail welcomed in their Parisian offices, rue des Capucines, the American doctor Joseph Leidy. Mr. Leidy was visiting the Daily Mail reporters in order to show them a wireless he had just received ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER JOHN WEIR Col John Weir was my Great Great Grandfather. He was born on May 14th 1852 to parents John Weir and Jane Gillies. He had two brothers and two sisters: James b. 28/5/1856, Sarah b. 16/2/1858, George b. 29/1/1862 and Jane b. 30/7/1864. John marri... | ||||||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | JUST BEFORE SMASH HAYS SAID DISASTER Canadian Press Despatch New York, April 19.---Col Gracie, U. S. A. who was the sole survivor of those who went down with the Titanic, and was rescued, gave this remarkable statement last night:... | 19th 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 | |||
| Peoria Journal Star | (1975) | RICHARD BECKER Page E-8 Richard F. Becker, 65, 2139 N. Wellington, died at 5:10 A.M. yesterday in Proctor Hospital, where he was admitted Aug. 26. He was a retired safety supervisor for Caterpillar Tractor Co. Born in I... | 7th September 1975 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MILLET MEMENTOS IN ROME Friends Find a Pathetic Interest in Visiting the Future Academy --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 27---A visit to the Villa Aurelia on the top of the Janiculum, wh... | 28th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | ROUSED BY WHITE STAR LINE Liverpool and Queenstown Protest Against Change to Southampton --- LIVERPOOL, Jan. 9---Because of the strong feeling aroused locally by the statement that the White Star Line purposed to divert its steamers to Southampt... | 10th January 1907 | |||
| New York Times | (1930) | GARDEN LURES SKIPPER OF THE BERENGARIA, SIR HENRY [SIC] ROSTRON, AFTER 45 YEARS AT SEA Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Nov. 7---Captain Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, commodore of the Cunard fleet, who is retiring after forty-five years at sea, took his leave of his fellow-officers at Southampton this week on relinq... | 9th November 1930 | |||
| West Palm Beach Inquirer | (1940) | WILLIAM E. CARTER SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS William E. Carter, well-known sportsman and clubman of Philadelphia and Unionville, Pa., died early Wednesday morning at a West Palm Beach hospital after a brief illness. He had been spending the season at the Breakers, which he had visited each w... | 21st March 1940 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | BIG CROWD SAILS TO-DAY Nine Hundred First Cabin Passengers on Olympic, Cedric, and Lapland --- More than 1,200 cabin passengers, of whom nearly 900 will be in the first cabin, will sail from New York for Europe to-day. This big crowd of travelers, in numbers ... | 24th January 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | IRISH M. P.'S PROTEST Want White Star Liners to Continue Calling at Queenstown --- LONDON, March 7---The Postmaster General, Mr. Buxton, to-day received an influential deputation of Irish members of Parliament and representatives of the com... | 8th March 1907 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | SEEKS LIEN ON ESTATE OF A TITANIC VICTIM John S.Fanning, of East Orange, N.J., applied yesterday to Surrogate Fowler, for letters of administration for the estate of John D. Baumann, a promoter of South American rubber and timber companies, who was lost on the Titanic. Mr Fanning said th... | 7th September 1912 | |||
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(1913) | THE BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, 1913 The Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain was erected by the contributions of friends of Major Archibald Willingham Butt and Francis Davis Millet. "The 8-foot-high fountain is composed of a marble shaft of simple Neo-c... | 1913 | |||
| Moving Picture News | (1911) | DOROTHY GIBSON It was the pleasure of one of our staff recently to meet and converse with Miss Dorothy Gibson of the Éclair Company of America. The accompanying reproduction of a photograph of Miss Gibson, and which is true to life, speaks for itself of the almost ... | 18th November 1911 | |||
| Aberdeen Daily Journal | (1912) | MR. F. D. MILLET In modern times at any rate the life of a successful artist is unusually placid and uneventful; few have crowded into it such variety as Mr. F. D. Millet, whose loss in the disaster which has befallen the Titanic will be deeply felt by many, both ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1954) | TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES Mrs. Lilly Potter, 98, Was ‘Grand Old Lady’ of Red Cross --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2---Mrs. Lilly A. Wilson Potter, a descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims who was known as the “Grand Old Lady... | 3rd January 1954 | |||
| The Times | (1899) | THOMAS ISMAY HONORED BY CITY OF BELFAST BELFAST, July 20---Mr. Thomas H. Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, was to-day presented with the freedom of the city in recognition of his services to Belfast ... | 22nd July 1899 | |||
| Wells Journal | (1912) | LADY'S PRAISE OF A TITANIC SEAMAN One of the able seamen on the Titanic, Thomas Jones, a native of Anglesey has received the following letter from New York:- ''I feel I must write and tell you how splendidly you took charge of our boat on the fatal night. There were on... | 30th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1955) | EDWARD MAYER IS DEAD World War I Air Veteran Had Been Investment Broker --- Special to The New York Times --- SCRANTON, Pa., June 10---Edward B. Mayer of Dalton, a veteran of World War I and a retired New York investment broker, died today in ... | 11th June 1955 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | AMERICANS IN ROME Mr. And Mrs. Millet at Villa Aurelia, Which is Being Modernized --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 6---[Three paragraphs which are irrelevant for present purposes have bee... | 7th April 1912 | |||
| The Nation | (1912) | STEAD AND FUTRELLE Among those who perished in the wreck of the Titanic was William Thomas Stead, who is, perhaps, best known as the editor of the "Review of Reviews," and as the founder of an American journal of that name. He was born in 1849 and received ... | 25th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | 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 | |||
| North American | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER PROVES AID TO WOMAN Twice Debarred, Embarking on Fated Liner, Enters on Carpathia --- DODGES ELLIS ISLAND --- Special Dispatch to The North American --- ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 2---That it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good w... | 3rd May 1912 | |||
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | (1912) | FOUR ON BIG LINER CLEVELAND BOUND Page 1 Three Men and One Woman on Way to This City May Have Gone Down Many Parts of Ohio Represented in Lists of Victims When the news of the greatest sea distater ina century was flashed to Cleveland ye... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ROME NOW CROWDED Frank Millet, the President of the Consolidated American Academy, is about to turn his face homeward, although he came from New York less than a month ago. However, important affairs take him back to the land of his birth. He is accompanied by Majo... | 31st March 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | TAFT DENIES BUT TWENT ON MISSION TO THANK PONTIFF President Sends Letter to Tennessean Explaining Trip of Military Aide --- President Taft today denied Major Archibald Butt was returning from a mission to Rome when he went to his death on the luckless Tiatnic. The denial... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| JONES ADMIRATION FOR COUNTESS OF ROTHES Jones apparently admired the Countess of Rothes very much indeed. In fact he later presented her with the brass number plate of the boat and in later years they maintained a correspondence. The countess's cousin Miss Gladys Cherry was also in ... | ||||||
| New York Times | (1934) | DR. CHARLES D. EASTON DIES AFTER OPERATION Physician Here and in Newport, of Distinguished Ancestry, Had Served in the War Dr. Charles D. Easton of 510 Park Avenue, who had practiced medicine in Newport, R.I., for many years and in this city since the Armistice, died yesterday ... | 5th October 1934 | |||
| GENERAL INFORMATION HARRIS, MRS. IRENE R, (NEE WALLACH). Saved in Lifeboat D. Cabin C83. European address - c/o Fraulein Woolf, Kapellenstrasse 81, Wiesbaden. Germany. (Born 15th June 1876, died 2nd September 1969). Buried in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale... | ||||||
| (1996) | JOYCE A. ROSENFELD Joyce Aks Rosenfeld, 62, of the 1800 block of Banning Road, died August 13, 1996, in her home. Mrs. Rosenfeld was a native of Portsmouth. She was member of Ohef Sholom Temple in Norfolk and had worked at Antell's Women's Clothing Stor... | 14th August 1996 | ||||
| Evening Bulletin | (1912) | MRS. BREWE COLLAPSES Widow 0f Physician Lost on Titanic in Serious Condition at Her Home Here --- Crushed under the news of the death of her husband, Dr. Arthur Jackson Brewe, on board the Titanic, Mrs. Brewe is in se... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago American | (1912) | TITANIC’S COURSE AND SPEED CAUSED DISASTER, SAYS DAHL A picture of a sea dotted with so many icebergs that the Carpathia was forced to steer an zigzag course to leave the field of menacing floes was added to the indictment against officials of the White Star Line to-day by Charles Dahl, a Titan... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ARCHIBALD GRACIE Prominent in Washington---His Wife's Whereabouts Not Known --- WASHINGTON , April 15---Archibald Gracie, one of the Titanic's passengers, is well known in Washington and New York society. His wife has recently attracted attention by le... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1893) | JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND ISIDOR STRAUS TALKED OF Among those politicians who have been industriously at work during the last two weeks speculating as to the make-up of Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet, a new name was suggested yesterday. It was that of John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, who was said to ... | 7th February 1893 | |||
| New York Dramatic Mirror | (1912) | A LIVING MEMORY A Living Memory (Drama) Released: March 26, 1912 Produced by Éclair American Distributed by Motion Picture Distribution and Sales Company Directed by Alec B. Francis S... | 3rd April 1912 | |||
| New York Evening Journal | (1912) | MAYOR HAS TRIBUTE FOR ISIDOR STRAUS HEROISM OF NOTED AMERICAN AND HIS WIFE PRAISED IN LETTER TO OSCAR STRAUS Praise for the heroism of Isidor Straus and Mrs. Straus was expressed yesterday by Mayor Gaynor in a letter to Oscar Straus of No. 5 West Seventy-sixth Street. ... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | WILL OF LORILLARD SPENCER Bulk of His Estate Left to Mrs. Spencer in Trust for Life --- Special to The New York Times --- NEWPORT, R. I., April 1---The will of Lorillard Spencer, who died in New York last month, was filed for probate to-day, and di... | 2nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1937) | MRS. A. H. RICE DIES IN A PARIS STORE New York and Newport Society Woman, Wife of Explorer, Noted for Philanthropy --- A SURVIVOR OF TITANIC --- Lost First Husband and Son in Disaster---Gave Library to Harvard University --- Special Cable to THE ... | 14th July 1937 | |||
| (1913) | AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF FUND: KANTOR No. 228. (Russian). The husband, about thirty years of age, was drowned. He was travelling with his wife, who was saved. He had been a commission merchant, earning about $2,500 a year, and was bringing to this country several trunks of valuable furs ... | 1913 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | COL. JOHN JACOB ASTOR Wealthy Society Man and an Author and Inventor as Well --- Col. John Jacob Astor, the American head of the Astor family, has held a prominent place in the life of this city for many years. Not alone has he been a conspicuous club member... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | ANOTHER MYTH OF SMART Titanic Victim Not Only Had No Children, but No Fortune --- It was disclosed recently that the Smart children, heirs of a wealthy lawyer who perished on the Titanic, were a myth, and yesterday it was developed that the supposedly wealth... | 16th January 1913 | |||
| CHICAGO TITANIC BULLETINS BULLETINS Montreal, April 15—The local office of Horton Davidson, one of the Titanic passengers, has received the following wireless message: “All passengers are safe and Titanic taken in tow by ... | ||||||
| The Times | (1912) | THE TITANIC INQUIRY: LADY DUFF GORDON'S EVIDENCE The inquiry into the loss of the Titanic was resumed yesterday by Lord Mersey and his Assessors. There was no diminution in the public interest taken in the proceedings. Among those present were Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein, Lady St. Helier, L... | 21st May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | GAVE LIVES FOR THE MAILS Postal Clerks Worked in Two Feet of Water---Hitchcock Aids Kinsmen --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 20---Postmaster General Hitchcock to-day addressed a communication to Chairman John A. Moon of the ... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | STEERAGE SURVIVOR HERE TELLS OF STILL ANOTHER REAL HERO Mary Glynn Declares Young Irishman Refused Seat in Lifeboat --- Maritime speed mania was the cause of the accident off the Newfoundland banks last Monday morning, which took as its awful toll 1,535 human lives and more than $10,000,000 ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1905) | J. P. MORGAN AS A GRANDPA Eager as a Boy to Meet the Home-Coming Hamilton Children --- When the White Star steamship Oceanic reacher [sic] her pier from Liverpool yesterday morning the most eagerly expectant person awaiting her was J. Pierpont Morgan, who was t... | 23rd November 1905 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | JACQUES FUTRELLE, WRITER The Author of "The Thinking Machine" and Many Short Stories --- Jacques Futrell is well known as a writer of fiction, having contributed many long and short stories to magazines. He was born in Pike County, Georgia, April 9, 1875, and ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | ASPLUND FUND TOTALS $1031.25, BUT BODY OF VICTIM OF TITANIC DISASTER FAILS TO REACH WORCESTER The benefit fund for Mrs. Charles Asplund and her two children saved from the titanic, while her husband and three sons went to their deaths, yesterday passed the $1000 mark. The total amount subscribed last night was $1031.25, and tha... | 4th May 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1965) | VICTOR SALVATORE, SCULPTOR, IS DEAD Victor Salvatore, a sculptor, died Saturday at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He was 80 years old. Mr. Salvatore is represented in the collections of a number of museums and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Ar... | 12th April 1965 | |||
| Chicago American | (1912) | OLYMPIC BARRED SENDING TITANIC NEWS BY WIRELESS By wireless to Glace Bay, N. S. --- Edward L. Doheny of Los Angeles, a passenger on the Olympic, says that a bulletin stating that all the Titanic passengers were safe, was po... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| North American | (1912) | WOMAN IN WILMINGTON TELLS OF THE DISASTER Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILMINGTON, Del., April 19---Miss Emily Rugg, 20 years old, of the Isle of Guernsey, England, one of the survivors of the Titanic, arrived in this city today, and told a graphic story ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1913) | MRS. J. CLINCH SMITH DIES Widow of Titanic Victim Never Recovered from Shock of His Death --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PARIS, Aug. 20---Mrs. James Clinch Smith, a well known American resident of Paris, died to-day at Leysin, Switzerl... | 21st August 1913 | |||
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Unidentified Newspaper | (1945) | MRS DOUGLAS DIES AT 81 This unidentified press cutting (most certainly from a Minneapolis paper) was found in Berthe Leroy's Titanic related items. Berthe had been Mrs Douglas's traveling companion for years. MRS DOUGLAS IS DEAD AT 81 Survivor... | 1945 | ||
| New York Times | (1935) | FIERMONTES FACE CHARGE OF BIGAMY Lawyer Urges Former Mrs. Astor to Depart From Italy Lest Government Act --- ROME, Feb. 11 (AP)---The possibility of legal action by the Italian Government on charges of bigamy against both Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte and h... | 12th February 1935 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MISS GRACIE HEARS FATHER IS AMONG PASSENGERS SAVED Capital Resident Said to Be Aboard the Carpathia With Others Taken From the Titanic --- STEAMER IS NOW HEADED FOR SOME AMERICAN PORT --- Col. Archibald Gracie, 1627 Sixteenth street, is saved from the wreck of the Titanic ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Atlantic City Daily Press | (1912) | ATLANTIC SURVIVOR TELLS OF DISASTER E. Z. Taylor, On Telephone With City Clerk Donnelly, Describes AwfulScene---Third Member of His Party, Fletcher Williams, Lost---Did NotHear of Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Earnshaw.----------Atlantic City was in direct personal ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1929) | FRANCE HONORS ROSTRON Cunard Commodore Receives Legion of Honor Aboard Berengaria --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHERBOURG, Feb. 27---France honored a life of heroism and seamanship tonight when she awarded the Legion of Honor to S... | 28th February 1929 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | THE TITANIC: MR ISMAY’S RETURN The Adriatic arrived at Liverpool on Saturday with Mr Bruce Ismay and other survivors of the disaster to the Titanic on board. A large crowd had assembled at the landing stage to meet the vessel. One of the White Star Company&rsq... | 13th May 1912 | |||
