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New York Times	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
Irish Times	CALL FOR 'TITANIC' EXHIBIT TO COME TO COBH THE LINK between the maritime town of Cobh, Co Cork, and the Titanic is consistently being overlooked, according to the president of the townâ€™s chamber of commerce, who has criticised a decision to host a major exhibition regarding the doomed liner in Dublin....	15th December 2009
New York Times	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
Independent.ie	PAISLEY GETS TITANIC WELCOME AT REMARKABLE VISIT TO CORK THE doomed liner Titanic provided the key to Dr Ian Paisley's remarkable two-day visit to Cork.The DUP leader stunned Cobh business chiefs by accepting an invitation to address the local Chamber of Commerce -- and his two-day visit, which ended yesterday afternoon, was then quickly expanded to include a courtesy call to both Cobh Town Council and Cork's City Hall....	21st April 2008
New York Times	THOMAS HENRY ISMAY [LETTER TO THE EDITOR] To The Editor of The New York Times: The death of Thomas Henry Ismay deserves more than a passing notice. In the extraordinary development of the commercial marine of Great Britain during the last quarter of a century he had been one o...	25th November 1899
The Times	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	ISMAY AIDS SAILORS' WIDOWS Will Provide Pensions for Those Who Lose Husbands at Sea --- By Marconi Wireless Transatlantic Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, May 14---Exact information was obtained to-day as to J. Bruce Ismay's intentions in...	15th May 1912
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC : A NICE LITTLE EARNER The Americans seem to think that anything connected with the Titanic is potentially a nice little earner. The latest idea is to raise artefacts from the Carpathia, the ship which rescued 705 from the Titanic.In 1912, the year the Titanic went down, the United States Senate passed a joint resolution extending the thanks of Congress and appropriating $$1000 for a gold medal to Captain Rostron of the Carpathia and a vote of thanks to the Carpathia crew. The Senate Commerce Committee in May 1912 deemed the course followed by Captain Rostron as deserving of the highest praise and worthy of special recognition. ...	26th January 2006
New York Times	$100,000 GIFT FROM ISMAY Thank Offering for His Escape---To Start Fund for Disabled Seamen --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LIVERPOOL, May 13---The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that J. Bruce Ismay h...	14th May 1912
Toronto Daily Star	MRS. E.F. GORDON Page 36, Column 2 Private funeral services were held for Mrs. Ethel Flora Fortune Gordon, wife of the late Crawford Gordon, a former manager of a Toronto branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Mrs. Gordon died yes...	22nd March 1961
	NIEUW AMSTERDAM CARD ROOM. 1938. LIBRARY and CARD ROOM: Abaft the Grand Hall are the Library and Card Room, which flank the connecting glass paneled corridor leading to the Smoking and Ritz-Carlton rooms. Decorated in black and silver, with a note of maroon here and there, Wijdevel...
	NIEUW AMSTERDAM : LIBRARY. 1938. LIBRARY and CARD ROOM: Abaft the Grand Hall are the Library and Card Room, which flank the connecting glass paneled corridor leading to the Smoking and Ritz-Carlton rooms. Decorated in black and silver, with a note of maroon here and there, Wijdevel...
New York Times	MARION SCRANTON MARRIED Wedded at Scranton, Pa., to Edward Mayer of This City --- Special to The New York Times --- SCRANTON, Pa., Jan. 16---Miss Marion Margery Scranton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Worthington Scranton, the latter a member of the R...	17th January 1932
New York Times	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
Asbury Park Evening Press	PENSION FAMILIES OF LOST CLERKS Congress would give $10,000 to Each---Mrs. Gwinn of This City Would Benefit ---------- WASHINGTON, April 23---Resolutions authorizing $10,000 appropriations for the families of each of the three postal clerks who lost their lives on the...	23rd April 1912
Centerville Daily Citizen	FEDERAL WARRANT FOR MYSTIC COUPLE FRANK LEFEBRE AND MARY DUPONT TO BE GIVEN A HEARING A federal warrant to hold the Mystic couple, Frank Lefebre and Mary Dupont and children pending a hearing on charges looking toward their deportation to France, their native country, has been received by Sheriff Dowis. The warrant alleges...	17th July 1912
New York Times	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
New York Times	MAURETANIA'S CAPTAIN IS HONORED BY KING Roston [sic]Is Made a K. B. E. in Delayed Birthday List---48 Other Knights Created --- Copyright, 1926, by The New York Times Company --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 2---The King's Bi...	3rd July 1926
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
The Times	LADY PIRRIE WIDOW OF THE GREAT SHIPBUILDER --- Viscountess Pirrie, widow of the famous Belfast shipbuilder and shipowner, died yesterday at her home in Carlos Place, W., at the age of 78. She was Margaret Montgomer...	20th June 1935
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	$4,427,608 ESTIMATE OF STRAUS ESTATE The Figures, However, Are Tentative, as Final Appraisal Has Not Been Filed --- MORE HEARINGS TO BE HELD --- Partial Schedules in the Estate of Benjamin Guggenheim Show Assets of $748,000 --- Edmond E. Wise, head of th...	11th August 1913
Daily Sketch	TEDDY SMITH HERO: BOYHOOD RECOLLECTIONS OF THE TITANIC'S CAPTAIN A Genial Schoolfellow "Teddy Smith has gone down with his ship, and out of the six of us lads who used to be schoolmates together only one is now left - myself." From every corner of England, Mrs. Smith, the widow of the...	25th April 1912
New York Times Book Review	THE LEGENDS STAY AFLOAT DOWN TO ETERNITY. By Richard O'Connor. 191 pp. New York:Gold Medal Books. 35 cents. --- By BURKE WILKINSON --- Anyone interested in the Titanic disaster will want to read this book, if only to com...	19th February 1956
New York Times	RITES FOR ASTOR ATTENDED BY 400 Realty Leader's Funeral Is Held at St. James Church---Honor Guard Present --- More than 400 friends and business associates attended a funeral service yesterday for Vincent Astor. The real estate owner and descendant of John Jacob Astor...	7th February 1959
Western People	WHITE STAR LINER TITANIC, 46,326 TONS. THE LARGEST VESSEL IN THE WORLD. The completion of the "Titanic" at Harland and Wolf's great Belfast Ship-building yard marks a further stage in the progress of British shipping and ship building, and in the development of the White Star Line. The construction of two such notable ve...	13th April 1912