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St. Catharines Standard	TITANIC PIECES SOLD TO BIDDER IN FLORIDA Pieces of an ill-fated ship sold by a St. Catharines auctioneer will float down to Florida. Sold during the Saturday auction were a tiny wooden box and silver pin tray which were once the property of two women who escaped the sinking Titanic in 1912....	23rd November 2010
Yacht Charters Magazine	TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION TO OPEN IN PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA ATLANTA, March 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RMS Titanic, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions, Inc. has entered into an agreement to present Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at the Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida. The Exhibition will open on May 25th and run through September 3rd....	30th March 2007
Elizabeth Daily Journal	LONE SURVIVOR IS PENNILESS Mrs. Peter Reniff is Left Destitute ---------- SAW NO LIGHTS OF OTHER SHIPS AS TITANIC SUNK Made penniless by the recent Titanic disaster in which she lost her husband, two brothers, cousin and two friends, Mrs. Peter Ren...	26th April 1912
	CHEROKEE 1930s snapshot of the Mohawk's sister ship Cherokee. She proved to be the least lucky of the Clyde-Mallory sisters. SheÂ collided with aÂ sailing vessel, the Bright in 1927, and rammed and sank the British vessel Welcombe off Jacksonville Florid...
kristv.com	ODYSSEY MARINE FINDS MORE SUNKEN TREASURE OFF FLORIDA COAST The Garisoppa does not hold the same place in history that the Titanic holds, but it is of interest to Odyssey Marine and the British government. "It was a cargo ship, it was carrying lots of interesting things of, most interest to us and probably our shareholders, it was carrying a lot of silver, potentially seven million ounces of silver," Gordon says. Seven million ounces of silver worth an estimated $220-million....	28th September 2011
Orlando Sentinel	TITANIC TO SAIL TO NEW I-DRIVE LOCALE The Titanic exhibit that sailed into Central Florida almost a decade ago is headed back to International Drive, with plans for a $2 million investment to modernize and expand the attraction.Titanic -- The Experience, which introduces visitors to the world of the ill-fated ocean liner, will end its temporary run in the Orlando Science Center on Oct. 12. It will move to a 20,000-square-foot location at 7324 International Drive, a mile north of the now-demolished Mercado shopping-and-dining complex where the attraction had spent the first eight years of its existence....	11th September 2008
Elizabeth Daily Journal	ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC News of Relatives Anxiously Awaited by Families In This City ---------- SCHOOL FLAGS ORDERED AT HALF-MAST ---------- Fred Jefferies, of 21B Florida street, is anxiously awaiting word of his sister, two brothers and...	16th April 1912
Newark Star	MEMORIAL SERVICES ARE PLANNED FOR TITANIC DEAD ELIZABETH, April 22---Memorial services for Peter Reniff and Thomas Gavey, of 21B Florida street, and Clifford and Ernest Jefferies, who were lost while on their way to this city in the Titanic disaster, will be held by the local lodges of Sons and D...	23rd April 1912
New York Times	DIES IN SWIMMING POOL F. O. Spedden, Retired Banker Here, Stricken in Palm Beach --- Frederic O. Spedden of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., retired New York banker, died yesterday of a heart attack while in the swimming pool of the Bath Club in Palm Beach, Flori...	4th February 1947
Daily Mail	FATE OF A FAMILY Parents and Nine Children in Titanic Page 6 On board the Titanic were eleven residents of Peterborough, Mr. and Mrs. John Sage, of Gladstone-street, and their nine children, whose ages range from twenty-two to five years. M...	18th April 1912
New York Times	MRS. FIERMONTE SUES Former Madeline Astor Seeks Florida Divorce From Boxer --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., May 2---Mrs. Madeline Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, filed suit for divorce here today from Enzo Fiermonte, c...	3rd May 1938
New York Times	CLEARS HOTEL MEN IN PALM BEACH FIRE Florida Commissioner After Inquiry Says That They Provided All Necessary Safeguards --- GUESTS’ LOSS $2,000,000 --- Thousands of Dollars in Scattered Belongings Reclaimed---First of Victims Arrive HERE --- Special to ...	21st March 1925
New York Times	WILLIAM E. CARTER, TITANIC SURVIVOR Member of Old Philadelphia Family, Polo Player Before World War, Dies in Florida --- KNOWN AS A SPORTSMAN --- Was Seriously Injured in 1912 While Playing for Bryn Mawr Benedicts in Local Match --- PALM BEA...	21st March 1940
La Voix du Nord	MME BOURLARD, LAST FRENCH SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, PASSED AWAY AT 88 IN OUR CITY Mme Bourlard who nearly met her death during two tragically famous accidents, passed away at the Sully home for elderly people in Béthune; she was going to turn 89 years old. Born in Hersin Coupigny in August 1884, the young Berthe Leroy was t...	8th July 1972
New York Times	SEALBY DEFENDS ISMAY Tribute from Republic’s Captain, Who Served Father and Son 25 Years --- Special to The New York Times ...	22nd April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper	TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES IN DANVILLE Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop Passed Away While Guest of Mrs. O. W. Cannon TAKEN ILL FRIDAY Had Arrived Here on Previous Day For Visit With Her Companion on Long Trip Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop, one of the surv...	1916
Newark Evening News	TELLS OF SEEING MEN SHOT DOWN ON TITANIC Special Service of the NEWS ELIZABETH, April 19---Almost prostrated by the terrible experiences which she had undergone since the Titanic went down, Mrs. Peter Renouf, of 21b Florida street, returned to her home here today. She told o...	19th April 1912
New York Times	FAVORS ISIDOR STRAUS RICHARD CROKER SAYS HE IS NOT OPPOSED TO BUSINESS MEN --- JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 10---Richard Croker, Thomas F. Grady, John R Sexton. and John F. Carroll, well-known Tammany men, who have been in Florida since la...	11th February 1893
La Voix du Nord	SHE NEARLY DROWNED IN THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC... André Pelletier ...and almost was burned to death in a Florida hotel Mme Bourlard, 80, now lives peaceful days in Béthune Sunday May 9th and Monday May 10th, 1965 Mme Bourlard, who was born in Hersin-Coupigny, near Béthune, 80 ...	9th May 1965
New York Times	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
	THE SAGE FAMILY OF PETERBOROUGH Geoffrey E. Whitfield John George Sage was born in Hackney, London in 1867. He followed a number of trades until his marriage, on 2nd November 1890 to Annie Elizabeth Cazaly. The Cazaly family were originally Huguenot refugees, and had been settled in the London are...	2001
The Guardian	OBITUARY OF BARBARA DAINTON Barbara Dainton, who has died aged 96, was one of the last surviving passengers from the Titanic, though her family were brought up never to mention it. She was well into her 80s before she spoke in public about the tragedy. Barbara's pare...	14th November 2007
Huntington Herald Dispatch (West Virginia)	SMITH FUNERAL PLANS DELAYED : PROMINENT HUNTINGTON WOMAN DEAD; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Mary Eloise Hughes Smith, 47, 1140 Fifth Avenue, who died unexpectedly in a Cincinnati, Ohio sanitarium yesterday at 5 A.M., were incomplete last night. Plans were withheld, members of the family said, pending word...	9th May 1940
Unidentified Newspaper	THE SAGE FAMILY LOST In the appalling calamity which befell the Titanic on Monday - (pages 7 and 8) - a toll of eleven lives was exacted from Peterborough, and remarkable to say, all in one family. These were Mr. and Mrs. John Sage, of Gladstone Street, an...	April 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal	AWAIT COMING OF CARPATHIA WITH RESCUED Relatives of Titanic Passengers Here Grief-Stricken Because of Suspense. ---------- SISTER OF ENGINEER SUFFERS NERVOUS SHOCK ---------- Almost crazed by grief and anxiety over the fate of relatives who are known to have be...	18th April 1912
The Virginian-Pilot	PORTSMOUTH MAN ASKS BIG PRICE FOR HUGE TITANIC MODEL $263K The Titanic dominated Wyatt Moores living room clashing with the mauve-and-red floral decor....	30th October 2010
New York Times	JOHN JACOB ASTOR TO WED DEBUTANTE His Engagement to Miss Eileen S. S. Gillespie Announced by Her Parents --- CAME OF AGE IN AUGUST --- Fiancee, Noted in Newport as a Tennis Player, Is From an Old American Family --- Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lew...	16th December 1933