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| FAMILY GRAVESTONE In loving memory of Sarah Jane, the beloved wife of Robert Henry Davies who died 17th May 1914 aged 62 Years "Peace Perfect Peace". Also Gordon Raleigh, second son of the above who lost his life in Tita... | ||||||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1961) | ETHEL FLORA FORTUNE GORDON Page 36, column 6 On Tues., March 21, 1961, at her home, 1 Clarendon Ave., Toronto, Ethel F. Fortune, widow of Crawford Gordon, mother of Crawford Gordon and William Fortune Gordon. A private service was held at the funeral chapel of ... | 22nd March 1961 | |||
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(1900) | SIR COSMO AND LADY DUFF GORDON Cosmo and Lucy Duff Gordon at Maryculter House, their country seat near Aberdeen. Taken in 1900 at the end of their honeymoon, this is the earliest known photo of the couple together and one of the few of Cosmo in his Gordon Highlanders regalia... | 1900 | |||
| Daily Graphic | (1912) | SOME OF THE SAVED LADY DUFF-GORDON, COUNTESS OF ROTHES, WHITE STAR CHAIRMAN. The Titanic's saved include--- Lady Duff-Gordon--who carries on the famous firm of "Madame Lucile"--and her husband, Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon. They sailed incognito as Mr. and Mr... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1869) | PERSONAL - LADY DUFF GORDON The death of Lady DUFF GORDON was announced in London on July 17. Her Ladyship, who wielded an easy and agreeable pen, was one of the best known writers on Egyptian life and scenery. Lady DUFF GORDON had long been consumptive, and, as the atmosp... | 29th July 1869 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | LADY DUFF-GORDON TO OPEN A SHOP HERE Lady Duff-Gordon, wife of Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, fifth baronet of that name, who under the firm name of Lucile conducts a dressmaking establishment in London, is in this city making arrangements to open a similar place here. She has taken a house... | 11th January 1910 | |||
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(1910) | LUCY DUFF GORDON IN 1910 The party was given by Mrs. Clarence McKay. Lady Duff Gordon arrived with Miss Elsie de Wolfe and Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.... | 1910 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1961) | 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 | |||
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(1910) | SIR HENRY WILLIAM ("HARRY") DUFF GORDON, YOUNGER BROTHER OF SIR COSMO EDMUND DUFF GORDON | 1910 | |||
| Dallas Times-Herald | (1935) | LADY DUFF GORDON, LEADING LONDON MODISTE, IS DEAD London, April 22 (AP) - Lady Duff Gordon, 71, known for many years as one of the world's foremost modistes, died yesterday in a nursing home in Putney. She was the widow of Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon, with whom she escaped in a lifeb... | 22nd April 1935 | |||
| New York Times | (1931) | SIR COSMO DUFF-GORDON Survivor of Titanic Disaster Dies in London at Age of 68 --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 20---Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, survivor of the Titanic disaster of 1912, died in London today at the age of 6... | 21st April 1931 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | CONSULT BURKE'S PEERAGE For News of the Arrival Here of the Sister of Mrs. Elinor Glyn --- Lady Duff Gordon, a sister of Mrs. Elinor Glyn, arrived yesterday at the Hotel Plaza. Lady Duff Gordon went to her room. Presently Mrs. Glyn approached the inquir... | 21st November 1907 | |||
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(1904) | LADY DUFF GORDON Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon wearing a pair of 18th century emerald and pearl cross-shaped earrings that were lost in the sinking of the Titanic. They were Duff Gordon family heirlooms given to her by her husband as a present on their wedding in 1900. The ... | 1904 | |||
| Time Magazine | (1931) | MILESTONES Died. Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon, 68, survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912 with his wife, Lady Duff Gordon (Lucy Sutherland), onetime London and Manhattan modiste (Lucile) who is a sister of novelist Elinor Glyn; in London.... | 4th May 1931 | |||
| Denver Post | (1912) | LADY DUFF-GORDON AND HUSBAND AMONG THOSE ON TITANIC New York, April 17--When the first passenger list of the Titanic was published in Monday's papers there was much curiosity over the identity of "Mr. and Mrs. Morgan," who were named as among those on board. The reporters on duty at the offices of the... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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(1915) | LUCY DUFF GORDON IN 1915 Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff Gordon photographed by Ira L. Hill, New York, Jan. 1915... | 1915 | |||
| 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 | (1904) | BETWEEN SIPS OF TEA Lady Duff-Gordon is one of the English titled women who are "in trade," as it is termed in England. She started a dress-making establishment some years since in London, and, having energy and taste, it has proved most successful. She is a Canadian... | 11th December 1904 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | THE DUFF GORDONS From London came a cablegram (to the White Star office), asking for news of Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. The cable remained unanswered for some time as line officials and their employees had more than they could attend to in the handling of inquir... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | LADY DUFF GORDON SUES Husband of the Former Mrs. Chapman Refuses to Pay for Valuable Gowns --- Lady Duff Gordon, who, under the name of Lucile, Ltd., of London and Paris, sells feminine apparel of her own design, is suing for $600 in the City Court P... | 14th April 1911 | |||
| New York Times Book Review | (1902) | BOOKS AND MEN Elinor Glyn, author of "The Visits of Elizabeth" and the recently published "Reflections of Ambrosine," is Mrs. Clayton Glyn, a sister of Lady Duff Gordon. She is an intimate friend of Lady Warwick. Lady Gordon is one of the well-known titled En... | 15th November 1902 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | SOCIAL NOTES Mrs. Wilber Bloodgood will give a large reception on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 26, at her home, 49 East Thirty-fourth Street, for Mrs. Elinor Glyn, the English writer, and Lady Duff Gordon. ********** New York Times, 26 December 190... | 21st December 1907 | |||
| New York American | (1935) | DEATH CLOSES CAREER OF LADY DUFF GORDON Modiste Who "Dressed the Women of Three Generations" Once Had Shop in New York LONDON, April 21. - Lady Duff Gordon, for many years world celebrated as an arbiter of fashion, and a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic,... | 22nd April 1935 | |||
| Boston Globe | (1912) | PHILLIPS THE JACK BINNS Wireless Operator on Titanic formerly on James Gordon Bennett's Yacht and on Oceanic. NEW YORK. April 15. - The wireless operator on the Titanic, who sent out the SOS message when she struck the iceberg is J. G. Phillips... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Sun | (1935) | NOTED STYLIST DIES IN LONDON London, April 22 - Lady Duff Gordon, for thirty years directress of the noted dress firm Lucile, with branches in New York, London, Paris and Chicago, and an innovator in feminine apparel, died yesterday in a London nursing home, following an illness... | 22nd April 1935 | |||
| 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 | (1919) | MARY GARDEN'S SIDE IN SUIT Bill for Gowns "Outrageous," Her Lawyer Wrote Lucille, Ltd. --- A statement in behalf of Mary Garden was made yesterday by her attorney, Jacob Klein, concerning the suit filed against her in the Supreme Court on Tuesday by Lucille, Ltd... | 22nd May 1919 | |||
| The Times | (1906) | THE OLYMPIAN GAMES The English team for the Olympian games in Athens next April has not yet been definitely chosen. In consequence of Mr C. Leaf Daniel's having been asked to be Captain of the Amateur Fencing Association's team to Paris he cannot go to Athens, and h... | 28th February 1906 | |||
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(1908) | PORTRAIT OF SIR COSMO DUFF GORDON | 1908 | |||
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Daily Sketch | (1912) | SIR COSMO DUFF GORDON IN 1896, AGE 34 | 24th April 1912 | ||
| New York Times | (1910) | PUZZLED BY GAY MODELS Women Imported by Lady Duff Gordon Teased Immigration Inspector --- Too much levity carne near causing five young Englishwomen to spend the night on the White Star liner Adriatic instead of coming ashore with the other passenger... | 5th March 1910 | |||
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(1910) | LUCY DUFF GORDON, PHOTO BY MARTIN | 1910 | |||
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GRAVE OF ETHEL F. FORTUNE AND HUSBAND CRAWFORD GORDON | |||||
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(1902) | ELINOR GLYN, SISTER OF LUCY DUFF GORDON | 1902 | |||
| 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 | |||
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(1910) | LUCY DUFF GORDON, PORTRAIT BY RITA MARTIN, LONDON | 1910 | |||
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(1910) | LUCY, LADY DUFF GORDON, PHOTOGRAPHED BY CAMPBELL, NEW YORK | 1910 | |||
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(1919) | LUCY DUFF GORDON AND HER PEKINGESE, "FLEURETTE," PHOTOGRAPHED BY GENTHE | 1919 | |||
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(1916) | PORTRAIT OF LUCY, LADY DUFF GORDON AT WORK IN HER NEW YORK SALON, BY ARNOLD GENTHE | 1916 | |||
| (2004) | SPECIAL DAY FOR OSCAR SCOTT WOODY It seems that the heroism of one of Titanic's postal clerks has been a source of inspiration for the governing officials of North Carolina. Oscar Scott Woody was a native of Roxboro, North Carolina. He had been a postal clerk on trains betwee... | 2004 | ||||
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(1908) | SIR COSMO EDMUND DUFF GORDON (AT RIGHT) WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH FENCING TEAM AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN LONDON | 1908 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | LADY DUFF-GORDON EXAMINED Declared She Merely Lent Her Name to Corporation, Lucile, Limited --- Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon visited the Federal Building yesterday with her counsel, Bainbridge Colby, to have a talk with Assistant United States District Attorney Wemple... | 6th June 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | SOCIETY---HOME AND ABROAD Personal and Otherwise --- Miss Esmé Wallace, who is to marry Viscount Tiverton, son of the Earl of Halsbury, is a daughter of Lady Duff-Gordon by her first husband, and is a niece of Eleanor Glyn, the novelist. Her mother marrie... | 4th August 1907 | |||
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(1910) | PORTRAIT OF LUCY DUFF GORDON BY MARCEAU, NEW YORK | 1910 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | STENGEL DENIES BRIBES WERE GIVEN TO SAILORS Newark Man Says Tale Told by Seaman as to "Money Boat" in Which He Left Titanic is Untrue --- Reports that bribes were offered the sailors who manned the boat in which C. E. Henry Stengel of Newark; Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and Lady Duff-... | 24th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1935) | LADY DUFF GORDON, STYLE EXPERT, DIES Pioneer in Bringing Freedom to Women's Fashions Headed Chain of Garment Shops --- COINED DRESS TERM 'CHIC' --- First Split Skirt and Manikin Show Credited to Her---She Had Stores in Three Countries --- Wirele... | 22nd April 1935 | |||
| New York Times | (1918) | FASHIONS AT THE PALACE Lady Duff-Gordon and Her Models Back---Effective War Play ---The changing season, with its accompanying change in feminine fashions, brought Lady Duff-Gordon and her gorgeously clad models back to the Palace Theatre yesterday a... | 28th May 1918 | |||
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DISCRETIONS AND INDISCRETIONS The autobiography of couturière and first class Titanic passenger Lady Duff Gordon published in 1932... | |||||
| New York Times | (1917) | FASHION DISPLAY AT PALACE Lady Duff-Gordon Appears far a War Charity---Herman Timberg --- A fashion display staged by Lady Duff-Gordon, and including that personage herself as an added attraction, was the mecca that drew an unusually large crowd to the Palace T... | 4th December 1917 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ONE VICTIM LEGALLY DEAD Surrogate Accepts Proof That William F. Hoyt Perished in Disaster --- The first victim of the Titanic disaster to be pronounced legally dead was William F. Hoyt. Surrogate Cohalan accepted proof of Mr. Hoyt's death y... | 27th April 1912 | |||
| The Sydney Morning Herald | (2007) | HAUNTING HALIFAX IF IT'S the Titanic you're thinking of, forget Leonardo DiCaprio.The name you need to know is Arthur Gordon McCrae. A second-class passenger on the ill-fated ship, McCrae was the only Australian passenger killed in the disaster that shook the world.... | 1st August 2007 | |||
| New York Times | (1908) | SOCIETY AT HOME AND ABROAD Mrs. Elinor Glyn and her sister, Lady Duff Gordon, have been visiting in Washington. Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce entertained at luncheon for them one day this week. [This paragraph appeared in a long society column, the balance of which is ... | 12th January 1908 | |||
| New York Times | (1918) | NEW INCORPORATIONS Special to The New York Times --- ALBANY, Jan. 30---Twenty-five new corporations, with an aggregate capital stock of $1,647,000, were chartered today. They include: Lady Duff-Gordon Costume Co., Manhattan, $5,... | 31st January 1918 | |||
| New York Times | (1922) | LUCILE'S CREDITORS FORCE RECEIVERSHIP Dressmakers Established by Lady Duff Gordon Owe $175,000, Have $75,000 --- HER $200 A WEEK UNPAID --- General Business Blamed and Report Is Denied of Bad Bills Among Patrons --- Lucile, Ltd., dressmakers, 19 East Fifty-f... | 21st March 1922 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | LATEST DEALINGS IN REALTY FIELD Lady Duff Gordon, who some months ago opened a dressmaking establishment at 17 West Thirty-sixth Street under the name of "Lucile," has leased from the Robert Goelet estate the building at 34 and 36 East Fifty-first Street. [Note: This par... | 11th June 1911 | |||
| Time Magazine | (1935) | MILESTONES Died. Lady Duff Gordon (Lucy Sutherland), 71, famed dress designer, long-time president of Lucile, Ltd (now defunct), Titanic survivor, sister of novelist Elinor Glyn; after six months' illness; in London. She was credited with the first split skirt,... | 29th April 1935 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | RUSH TO CONSOLE LADY DUFF-GORDON Stream of Visitors to Her Shop, Where Government Says Undervalued Gowns Were Shown --- SECOND ARREST IS MADE --- Abraham Merritt Surrenders to Answer Charge of Undervaluation in Customs Cases --- Abraham Merritt, f... | 27th May 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | LUCILLE, LIMITED, MANAGER PLEADS Thomas J. Duggan, Manager of Lucile, Limited, of 17 West Thirty-sixth Street, who is charged with the undervaluation of gowns and dress models, entered a formal plea of not guilty, before Judge Archbald in the Criminal Branch of the United States ... | 7th July 1911 | |||
| 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 | |||
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ELINOR GLIN ON HER SISTER LADY DUFF GORDON'S TITANIC ORDEAL One of a series of pages illustrating a detailed article by Elinor Glin, one of the "It" Girls, relating to the Titanic ordeal and the experiences and attitudes of those it involved. Elinor's sister, Lady Duff Gordon, was prominently saved with... | |||||
| Daily Sketch | (1935) | DEATH OF LUCILE Page 1 Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, famous as "Lucile," the fashion expert whose articles in the Daily Sketch were for years a notable and most popular feature has died in Putney. Her husband Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, Bt., died in April four y... | 22nd April 1935 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MARCONI MAN HAD RECORD Wireless operator on Titanic Young, but a Veteran in Service --- The man who sent out the wireless call for help from the damaged Titanic was J. G. Phillips, an Englishman, 24 years old, who had been in the employ of the Marconi Compan... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | LUCILE GOWNS SEIZED All Imported Goods Taken from Lady Duff-Gordon's Establishment --- There was excitement among the half-dozen models from abroad whom Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon recently placed in her fashionable dressmaking establishment, Lucile, Limited, at ... | 28th May 1911 | |||
| Denver Post | (1912) | LADY DUFF-GORDON TELLS OF SINKING OF GREAT LINER Lady Duff-Gordon dictated the following: I was asleep. The night was perfectly clear. I was awakened by a long grinding sort of shock. It was not a tremendous crash, but more as though someone had drawn a giant finger all along the side of the boat. ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | CUSTOMS MEN CALL LADY DUFF-GORDON After Arresting Manager of Her Shop on Charge of Undervaluing Imported Gowns --- WANT HER AS WITNESS --- Only Employe, Not President, of Lucile, Limited, Now, It is Said -... | 26th May 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | LADY DUFF GORDON SEES CHNIATOWN Ciceroned by Chuck Conners, "an Admirable Character in His Place" --- COMPLIMENTS BY BOTH --- Mr. Conners Says He Always Did Like Socialist Hair and Mrs. Glyn Reminded Him of "Her Nobs" --- Lady Duff Gordon of Londo... | 23rd December 1907 | |||
| Boston Daily Globe | (1914) | WOMAN LEAPS FROM DEVONIAN Formerly Stewardess on the Titanic Passengers on the Leyland Line steamship Devonian, in yesterday afternoon from Liverpool, reported that Mrs. Anna Robinson, a widow, aged 44, who was... | 11th October 1914 | |||
| New York Times | (1916) | MISS LUCILE CARTER A BUD IN NEWPORT --- Daughter of Mrs. George Brooke of Philadelphia Greeted by Society Throng --- HER BOW AT DINNER DANCE --- Mrs. Beeckman and Mrs. Perin Fly in Hydröaeroplane with E. E. Dodge---Tennis Tourney Continues ---... | 12th August 1916 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | UGBOROUGH MAN'S STORY J. Horswell (sic), a sailor, residing in Southampton, said though he was now lodging at Southampton, he hailed from Ugborough. He acted as bowman in one of the emergency boats, and among the passengers with them were Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. ... | 29th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT-STATE OF NEW YORK, New York County.---In the matter of the Petition of LUCILE, LIMITED, for authority to change its name to LUCILE, LIMITED, NEW YORK AND PARIS.--Notice is hereby given that Lucile, Limited, a corporation organized ... | 24th May 1910 | |||
| Evening World | (1912) | TWO SURVIVORS CALL ON MAYOR TO ASK RELIEF Steerage Passenger and Sailor Referred to Red Cross Managers of Fund Two survivors of the Titanic called on Mayor Gaynor to-day. One is a sailor who was assigned to help man a lifeboat, the other a steerage passenger who, wearing a li... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | DRESSMAKERS' QUICK FLIGHT Patrons, Too, Leave Without Ceremony When Fire Threatens --- A small but spectacular fire at 19 and 21 West Thirty-sixth Street shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon caused considerable excitement on Fifth Avenue among... | 17th February 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | THE CRINOLINE QUESTION THE CRINOLINE QUESTION --- Some Modistes Scout Idea of Suggested Revival---Others Like It --- Special Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Sept. 4---The question whether the crinolin... | 17th September 1911 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1980) | OLE ABELSETH [OBITUARY] Ole Abelseth, 94, of Hettinger, ND, a survivor of he sinking of the oceanliner Titanic, died Thursday, December 4, 1980 at the Hettinger Community Memorial Hospital. Funeral services for Mr. Abelseth were held Monday, December 8, 1980, ... | 1980 | |||
| (1912) | MME. AUBART: LUXURY LOST After her rescue from Titanic, French singer Leontine Pauline ("Ninette") Aubart, better remembered as the mistress of American millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim, wrote the following letter to the White Star Line, itemizing her lost possessions: ... | 1st May 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1944) | J. J. ASTOR MARRIES GERTRUDE GRETSCH Son of the Late Colonel John Jacob Astor Weds Alumna of Finch at Her Home --- The marriage of Miss Gertrude Gretsch, daughter of Mrs. Walter Gretsch of 3 East Seventy-seventh Street and the late Mr. Gretsch, to John Jacob Astor of 998 F... | 19th August 1944 | |||
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(2004) | TITANIC (1888) Smith & Service (1888-1903) Port of Registry: Belfast , Ireland Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Black ... | 22nd November 2004 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | C. E. H. STENGEL TELLS IN DETAIL OF BATTLE FOR LIVES Escapes in Separate Boat from Wife, Not Realizing Danger --- Lincoln Park Man Says Shock Was Slight, and That Supply of Lifeboats Was Inadequate; Denies That Captain Was Drinking, But Declares He Was Entertaining Ismay ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MRS. CANDEE TELLS OF TRAGIC SCENES AS STEAMER SANK Washington Woman Says Officers Demanded That Women Go First --- By GORDON MACKAY, Staff Correspondent --- NEW YORK, April 19---From the feeble, trembling lips of an aged woman comes the story that tears away the veil of my... | 19th April 1912 | |||
