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	Washington Post		SEAT IN U.S. SENATE CHIEF AMBITION OF NOTED SOCIETY WOMAN FROM COLORADO Mrs. J.J. Brown, a Favorite in Smart Set and Politics Mrs. J.J. Brown of Denver, a possible candidate for the United States Senate, is shown above with her niece, Miss Helen Tobin, who recently created a sensation in her J...	26th July 1914
	Seattle Post Intelligence		12-YEAR-OLD STUDENT FINDS A TITANIC MENTOR When you want to find out about a profession, sometimes it's best to go straight to the expert.It was 1985 when underwater explorer Robert Ballard made his discovery of the Titanic shipwreck and Kris Ludwig was growing up in Colorado....	27th February 2008
	Washington Times		SENATOR GUGGENHEIM GOES TO NEW YORK TO MEET CARPATHIA Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado, all but despairing of getting any news from his brother Benjamin, who is believed lost with the Titanic, departed for New York this morning to await the arrival of the Carpathia. He has only the faintest hope tha...	17th April 1912
	Washington Times		SENATOR GUGGENHEIM FEARFUL THAT HIS BROTHER IS DEAD Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado waited eagerly and anxiously today for some word that would indicate the fate of his brother, Benjamin, who was a Titanic passenger. Senator Guggenheim this forenoon had not given up all hope, but he was fearful t...	16th April 1912
	huffingtonpost.com		MOLLY BROWN, TITANIC SURVIVOR, IS HONORED IN NEW EXHIBIT Thousands of miles from the ocean, a museum tells the story of a woman made famous by the Titanic. No, her name was not Rose, and a movie about her life, "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," starring Debbie Reynolds as a plucky lifeboat survivor, was a hit decades before Kate Winslet's doomed romance in "Titanic." Molly Brown was a real person, but the movie created a myth that the museum, located in Brown's Denver home, attempts to dispel. Born in 1867 to Irish immigrants in Hannibal, Mo., Brown struck it rich, with her husband, from a Colorado gold mine years before she boarded the Titanic, and in later years, she fought for women's suffrage and labor rights....	26th March 2012
	New York Times		TITANIC DEATH STARTS SUIT Executor of Col. Weir Seeks to Recover Alleged Brokerage Account --- Surrogate Cohalan denied yesterday as "unreasonably inquisitorial" an application by Harold M. Weir, executor of the estate of Col. John Weir, to examine Mrs. Elizabet...	4th October 1912
	Denver Times		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
	Denver Post		WEALTHY COLORADO MINE OWNER DIES Page 1 and 3 James Brown, Multi-Millionaire, Once Denverite Gained Riches at Leadville James J. Brown, former Denver multi-millionaire mine owner, who became famous as one of the four original owners of the Ibex or Lit...	7th September 1922
			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...
	New York Times		GUGGENHEIM HEIRESS WED TO CORPORAL Mrs. Hazel McKinley Bride of Larry Leonard in Denver --- DENVER, Col., Sept. 30 (AP)---Mrs. Hazel Guggenheim McKinley, mining-family heiress, and Larry Leonard, an Army corporal, were married tonight at the home of Charles Ginsburg, Mrs...	1st October 1943
	Unidentified Newspaper		WIFE OF STATE FARM FOUNDER DIES AT 80 MRS. MECHERLE SURVIVOR OF ILL-FATED TITANIC Mrs. Sylvia Mecherle, 80, widow of the founder of State Farm Insurance Companies, died at 12:36 a.m. Thursday at Brokaw Hospital, where she had been a patient for 14 months. Her fu...	15th January 1965
	Denver Post		DEATH ENDS PICTURESQUE CAREER OF MRS. J.J. BROWN JACK CARBERRY Page 1 Life Story One of Accomplishment Adventure 'TITANIC' HEROINE IS VICTIM OF PARALYSIS (BY JACK CARBERRY) Mrs. Margaret Tobin Brown--Denver, and all the world knew her as "The Unsinkab...	28th October 1932
	New York Times		GUGGENHEIM ESTATE VALUED AT $3,551,994 Victim of Titanic Disaster Left Widow $785,199---Daughters Get About $500,000 Each --- MANY CHARITABLE BEQUESTS --- Sisters Receive Incomes from Trust Funds of $75,000 and Sisters-in-Law from $25,000 --- Benj...	18th January 1916
	New York Times		BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM Elected President of International Steam Pump Co. in 1909 --- Benjamin Guggenheim was born in Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 1865, the fifth of the seven sons of Meyer Guggenheim, founder of the famous house of M. Guggenheim & Sons, who came to...	16th April 1912