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	THREE GRACES, SHANGHAI The Three Graces on the Bund in Shanghai, China, were modelled on the originals on the waterfront in Liverpool by wealthy Western businessmen and developers who began to commercialise China from the late 1880s onwards. The m...
King's Notable New Yorkers	ISIDOR AND NATHAN STRAUS ISIDOR STRAUS (left) Memb. 53d U.S. congress. L. Straus & Sons, China & Glass. R. H. Macy & Co. and Abraham & Straus, Dept. Stores. NATHAN STRAUS (right) L. Straus &...
	REV. HARRY PARSONS (YOUNGER BROTHER OF EDWARD PARSONS) Rev. Harry Parsons was born on 26 November 1878 in Barnstaple but spent his early years living with his family in Plymouth. He entered the Ministry of the Bible Christian Church in 1899 and subsequently spent a short time at Cheriton F...
Winnipeg Free Press	TITANIC ARTIFACTS SAILING INTO CITY THIS FEBRUARY A show of haunting remnants from the Titanic -- from china dishes to a chandelier and a porthole -- is coming to Winnipeg in February....	9th December 2010
Gazette and Bulletin	WOMEN'S VARIED INTEREST Ann Ross short item...	15th June 1928
whitestarmemories.co.uk	HISTORY ON A PLATE View incredibly rare & unique documentation, letters and postcards from TITANIC herself and much, much more. This exhibition will captivate the visitor and provide you with a truly memorable trip back in time to an age long gone; the “Golden Age” of travel in splendour and opulence....	8th April 2011
Titanic Stories	TITANIC MEMORABILIA Titanic Stories A scratched and pitted piece of wood from a staircase. A china-faced doll with a tattered dress. A piece of coal lifted from two miles below the ocean surface. All these are highly desirable items if they are connected with one source… the Titanic....
Toronto Star	LAST DINNER ON THE TITANIC The year is 1912. As the Titanic steams toward its destiny an iceberg 563 kilometres off the coast of Newfoundland its first-class dining room glows with life. Distinguished guests descend the Grand Staircase into a room glittering with silver and crystal, anticipating another sumptuous meal served on 24-karat, gold-rimmed china....	30th September 2008
Liverpool Echo	WERE SALVAGED MIRRORS DESTINED FOR TITANIC? SALVAGE experts are trying to find out if mirrors discovered buried in mud in a Southampton junkyard were destined for the stricken Titanic.The mirrors were discovered buried at a yard where surplus stock from liners, said to be supplied by prestigious Liverpool china and glassware company Stonier & Co, ended up....	21st November 2007
Hereford Times	TITANIC HONOUR AND GLORY - EXHIBITION AT LUDLOW ASSEMBLY ROOMS VOTED one of the top five exhibitions in the country by The Times, Titanic Honour and Glory has docked in Ludlow as part of its centenary tour. The brainchild of Sean Szmalc and Margot Corson, it is an exciting, awe-inspiring and evocative national touring exhibition, which features many rare and previously unseen artefacts from the liner’s passengers and crew, including some of the beautiful china dinner plates, which served the first meals aboard the Titanic. ...	27th October 2011
	CUP & SAUCER FROM TITANIC Spode Coplands Gold and cobalt blue, R4332...	1912
patch.com	EXPLORE THE TITANIC AT THE LACEY LIBRARY The display consists of first, second, and third class plate sets; photographs of survivors; and jewelry from the ship itself. Egolf was invited on the Titanic expedition when they tried to raise a piece of the ship. On that trip, Egolf met Titanic survivors Edith Brown Haisman and Michael Navratil. After the expedition, Egolf got further involved in the research of the Titanic....	9th April 2011
com	JUDGE: SALVAGE FIRM HAS TITLE TO TITANIC ARTIFACTS A federal judge on Monday granted a company title to fine china, ship fittings and other artifacts worth about $110 million that it recovered from the Titanic in a half-dozen perilous expeditions to the famous shipwreck. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith in Norfolk issued the order a little over a year after ruling that RMS Titanic was entitled to full compensation for the roughly 5,900 artifacts. In her August 2010 ruling, Smith postponed deciding whether to give RMS title to the artifacts or sell them and turn the proceeds over to the company....	15th August 2011
New York Times	TITANIC WIDOW TO WED Mrs. Ryerson of Chicago Will Marry Forsythe Sherfesse, Financier --- CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (AP)---Mrs. Emily Borie Ryerson, whose husband, Albert [sic] Ryerson, lost his life when the Titanic sank, will be married next week, it is announced, ...	2nd December 1927
New York Times	CABINET IS SALE FEATURE Mahogany Breakfront Brings $585 in $51,640 Auction --- A Regency mahogany and grillwork breakfront cabinet with Roman portrait medallions, circa 1820, was sold to a private collector for $585 yesterday at the final session of the sale ...	24th September 1950
Chicago Evening Post	ASSERTS CELTIC SAVED TWO FROM THE TITANIC Indiana Man Declares Officer and Woman Steerage Passenger Were Rescued Muncie, Ind., April 22—That the White Star liner Celtic, which followed closely in the path of the ill-fated Titanic, picked up an officer and a wom...	22nd April 1912
	TITANIC : HISTORY ON A PLATE To be opened by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall on 18th February 2011 ...
	OBITUARY WAS born on the 31st March, 1880, at Whitehaven, Cumberland. When quite young his parents moved to Blackburn, where he passed his apprenticeship days with the firm of James Davenport, of the Canal Works. From this firm he went to Messrs Howar...
New York Times	MRS. HELEN C. CANDEE SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES Page 25, column 2 YORK HARBOR, ME., Aug 23 Mrs. Helen Churchill Candee, author and lecturer, of this place and Washington, D.C., died here today after a brief illness. She was 90 years old. Mrs. Candee, an authority on tapes...	24th August 1949
Torquay Times	DEATH OF AN ESTEEMED RESIDENT. Torquay has lost an old and respected inhabitant in the death of Mrs. Rebecca Parsons, of Bronshill Road. Originally of Torrington, she had for many years resided at Torquay and took a very active interest in the work of the United Methodist Church ...	1st December 1922
	LOBB FAMILY INFORMATION The correct origins of William Arthur Lobb, third class passenger on Titanic have now been established. The 1891 Cornwall Census shows that William Arthur Lobb was born in the parish of Luxulyan (5 miles NE of St. Austell) in 1881 and that he was th...
The Mercury (Hobart)	THE TITANIC'S COMMANDER BRISBANE, April 24 For some time past there has been in Brisbane Captain Anning, who at one time was commander of the White Star liner Persic, trading to Australia. He said, in...	25th April 1912
New York Times	YACHT ELEANOR'S LONG CRUISE Mrs. James W. Martinez-Cardeza's steam yacht Eleanor has been prepared at Tebo's basin, South Brooklyn, for another of the many long voyages she has made during the six years of her existence, and will probably sail within a wek [sic] or ten days for...	16th June 1900
Rochester City Newspaper	REVIEW: "TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION" Ego, wealth, optimism, and opulence. RMS Titanic was the grandest symbol of all this and more. Branded as "practically unsinkable," the largest ship ever built in its time boasted a top first-class ticket price of more than $103,000 in today's currency. Filled with celebrities, dignitaries, tycoons, and immigrants, the Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912, from Southampton, UK, and sank on April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg during its maiden voyage....	7th October 2009
	FAMILY INFORMATION Ernest Charles Cann was born in the village of Chapel Amble in the parish of St Kew near Wadebridge, Cornwall in 1883. He was the son of William Cann (labourer)and Sarah Jane Cann. (Sarah was 27 years younger than her husband and had been widowed sh...
	LAWRY FAMILY INFORMATION Charity, who travelled as a third class passenger with her husband Alexander Robins was born in the parish of St. Mewan, Cornwall on 18 January 1865. At the time of the 1871 Census, aged 7, she was living at St. Austell with her parents and 8 ...
New York Times	STRAUS A FAMOUS MERCHANT Member Both of R. H. Macy & Co. and Abraham & Straus --- Isidor Straus, who, with Mrs. Straus, was aboard the Titanic, was born in Rhenish Bavaria on Feb. 6, 1845. His father's family came to this country in 1852, and settled at Talbott...	16th April 1912
New York Times	ASTOR BEQUESTS HAVE ALL BEEN PAID Cost of Administering Estate to Date, with Transfer Tax, Foots Up $3,305,480 --- $24,715,478 DISTRIBUTED --- The Four Executors File Their First Judicial Accounting, Covering Personal Property Only --- The fi...	29th April 1914
	TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL Titanic, Carpathia, Californian were all Liverpool registered ships. The Titanic was scheduled to visit the port on the voyage from Belfast to Southampton but this was cancelled almost at the last minute. ...
The Evening Telegram	AGONIZED WAITING IN TORONTO FOR THE SHIP THAT PASSED IN THE NIGHT Newspaper article...	16th April 1912
Irish Independent	'TITANIC' DIRECTOR AND CAST ARE ASKED TO HELP SHIP'S LAST SURVIVOR An Irish author and photographer, Don Mullan, is challenging the director and cast of the 1997 film Titanic to take care of the last living link to the 1912 maritime tragedy....	29th April 2009
Irish Independent	'TITANIC' DIRECTOR AND CAST ARE ASKED TO HELP SHIP'S LAST SURVIVOR An Irish author and photographer, Don Mullan, is challenging the director and cast of the 1997 film Titanic to take care of the last living link to the 1912 maritime tragedy. Millvina Dean, at just nine weeks old, was the youngest passenger to be carried into the third class accommodation on the ship. Her father perished after saving his wife, young son and baby daughter and his body was never recovered. ...	26th April 2009
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
Whitehaven News	LOCAL CONNECTION WITH TITANIC DISASTER The Blackburn Times of the 20th inst. contains the following account of an interview with Mr. James Shepherd, son of the late Mr. Jonathan Shepherd, formerly of Whitehaven, and now residing at Blackburn, whose son, Mr. Jonathan Shepherd, was one of t...	2nd May 1912
	GEORGE PELHAM FAMILY RESEARCH Marion James George Pelham (Titanic survivor) 28yrs old born Bethnal Green Occupation Potman Wife ...