Spirit World

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The Daily Banner	VICTIM SENDS A MESSAGE FROM SPIRIT WORLD Paris, May 14 William T. Stead, the famous writer and delver into the psychic, who went down in the wreck of the Titanic, is said to have sent a message from the spirit world saying that his death was painless and perfectly calm. ...	14th May 1912
derryjournal.com	BOOK CLUB FOR CHILDREN GETS A TITANIC START A thrilling read for older children, ‘Spirit of the Titanic’ follows the infamous journey and demise of the Titanic through the eyes of Sam, a fifteen year-old who plunges to his death whilst building his beloved Titanic. Now, as the greatest ship the world has ever seen, crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Sam finds himself on board – as a ghost. His spirit roams the ship, from the glamour of first class to the party atmosphere of third class. Sam shares the excitement of Jim, Isobel and their children - on their way to a new life in America....	23rd August 2011
White Plains Daily Argus	TALKED WITH STEAD'S SPIRIT, WOMAN SAYS TELLS SPIRITUALISTS LOST EDITOR APPEARED TO HER Pittsburgh, April 24 - "Happy, but preparing to be with us in the spirit," was the way Mrs. Mary L. Feldman of Carrick, a delegate to the fifth annual convention of the Pennsylvania...	24th April 1912
Chicago Examiner	STEAD'S SPIRIT PICKS WRONG LADY GORDON STEAD'S SPIRIT PICKS WRONG LADY GORDON Message From Other World Upon Titanic Disaster Goes Ast...	16th December 1913
Chicago Examiner	MORE SPIRIT NOTES BY STEAD REVEALED Spirit messages from the late William T. Stead, lost in the Titanic disaster,...	7th December 1913
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC EXHIBITION SAILS INTO DUBLIN Almost 100 years after the Titanic sank beneath icy waters on an April night in 1912, the spirit of the great ship is coming to Ireland....	8th December 2009
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC EXHIBITION ATTEMPTS TO RECREATE EXPERIENCE OF BEING ON DOOMED SHIP Ever wondered what it felt like to walk the decks of the Titanic? Almost 100 years after the liner sank beneath icy waters on an April night in 1912, the spirit of the great ship is coming back to Ireland through a new exhibition....	17th December 2009
	MEMORIAL TO WILLIAM T. STEAD "W. T. Stead. 1840-1912. This memorial to a journalist of wide renown was erected near the spot where he worked for more than 30 years by journalists of many lands in recognition of his brilliant gifts, fervert spirit, and untiring devotion to t...
Hampshire Independent	IN MEMORIAM Sacred to the memory of our dear boy Herbert Jupe, electrician, who lost his life at his duties on the foundering of the SS Titanic. . . Lost to sight, but to memory very dear. From his father and mother. Absent in body, present in spirit. ...	17th April 1915
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	£100M TITANIC BELFAST BUILDING TAKES VISITORS ON AMAZING VOYAGE - BELFAST TELEGRAPH Here is the first glimpse of what the new iconic Titanic Belfast building will look like inside. Opening in April 2012, the £100m structure in the Titanic Quarter, east Belfast, will be the largest man-made tourist attraction in Northern Ireland’s history. The people behind the building believe the "spirit that built Titanic is reborn". ...	24th May 2011
Worcester News	ELLEN ASHES JOIN TITANIC VICTIM DAD The ashes of Mrs Walker, who married twice and had a son, were scattered off Cataclew Point, on the north Cornish coast, by the RNLI lifeboat Spirit of Padstow. Mrs Walker, known as Betty, died at Red Hill Nursing Home, Worces-ter, last year. Among those at the ceremony was north Cornwall auxiliary coastguard Ian Fuller, who became a friend to Mrs Walker when she lived next door to his father. He said: She kept all the cuttings about the Titanic that she could collect, and I believe she had a cabin key from the ship....	3rd November 2006
Titanic Stories	WHERE TITANIC WAS BUILT Titanic Stories You many think Belfast is famous for producing one thing, the Titanic. You would be wrong. Titanic may be the best known export but she was by no means the only innovative piece of engineering to leave these shores....	11th July 2008
Waterbury Republican American	A TITANIC EVENT On April 15, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, claiming more than 1,500 lives and shattering the world's confidence in technology....	20th April 2010
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea News	CHRISTOPHER HEAD A former Mayor of Chelsea was among the 1,523 lost in the Titanic disaster of April 1912. Christopher Head served as Mayor between 1909 and 1911 and had been a Conservative councillor since 1906. According to contemporary accounts, Head wa...	April 1998
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
PRNewswire	SAVE THE TITANIC FOUNDATION ASSEMBLES 100TH YEAR TITANIC ANNIVERSARY GALA AND CONCERT The Save the Titanic Foundation (http://www.savethetitanic.org) today announced details of the 2012 Global telecast concert event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Titanic. The 100th anniversary event will be staged simultaneously at Madison Square Garden -- The World's Most Famous Arena in the heart of New York City, the celebrated Wembley Stadium in London, and the Odyssey Arena -- The largest indoor concert arena in Ireland....	10th September 2009
The Local	TITANIC EXHIBITION OPENS IN STOCKHOLM It was April 15th, 1912, when the world's first unsinkable ship sank while crossing the Atlantic Ocean on her maiden voyage.Since then, the Titanic has rested at the bottom of the sea. Her story left a legacy that has resonated around the world for nearly a century after her demise, and has now been captured in a new exhibition, Titanic, opening to the public on Friday, May 29th....	2nd June 2009
News Leader	WORLD'S LARGEST TITANIC SAND SCULPTURE See award-winning sand sculptors shape a Titanic masterpiece from a 15-ton, mountain of imported sand at the World's Largest TITANIC Museum Attraction in Branson Sept. 20-23. ...	20th September 2007
New York Times	MORGAN FOR PRESIDENT? HUH! He Wouldn't Take That Job, Says the Dog Show Doorkeeper --- The proudest man in New York yesterday was the doorkeeper of the private entrance to the Dog Show in Madison Square Garden, for he was formally introduced to...	15th February 1908
Titanic Stories	TITANIC THINGS TO SEE AND DO IN ALL OVER THE WORLD! If you are looking for Titanic based events attractions memorials and tours to do all over the world then look no further than the Titanic Today section on the Titanic Stories website. We keep to date listings of all the great Titanic related activities happening across the globe and especially in Belfast home of the Titanic. Visit our Titanic Today section for the all the latest! ...	20th February 2011
oxfordmail.co.uk	FRESH IDEAS ON WHY TITANIC WENT DOWN AN OXFORDSHIRE scientist is attracting international attention with his new theories about the world’s most famous maritime disaster. Richard Corfield, from Long Hanborough, has advanced new ideas about the role of science in the sinking of the Titanic, on the 100th anniversary of the catastrophe. Writing in the journal Physics World, he takes a look at the cascade of events that led to the demise of the ‘unsinkable’ ship, highlighting the significant roles played by maths and physics. ...	26th April 2012
	THE ENGLISHMAN Poem composed on Olympic, April 18, 1912...	18th April 1912
New York Times	THE TITANIC Lawrence Beesley's Admirable Description of the Disaster --- THE LOSS OF THE S. S. TITANIC. By Lawrence Beesley. Illustrated. Houghton Miffling [sic] Company. $1.20. --- No man can go dawn into the valley of the shadow ...	28th July 1912
Birmingham Post	HERITAGE CENTRE BID COULD HIGHLIGHT LINKS WITH TITANIC A maritime enthusiast is aiming to set up a Titanic heritage centre in the Midlands, as the focal point of events marking the tragedy's 100th anniversary in 2012.Howard Nelson, from Coventry, has already established the world's only Titanic Heritage Trust and believes the Midlands would be an ideal home for a museum dedicated to the Titanic as it has many links with the world's most famous ship....	7th January 2006
ca	TITANIC AUCTION NOT POPULAR AT MARITIME MUSEUM - THECHRONICLEHERALD.CA The sale of more than 5,000 artifacts salvaged from the world’s most famous shipwreck is causing concerns for a local museum official. Concerns serious enough the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic will never consider hosting the Titanic relics — even as a temporary exhibit. "No maritime museum in the world that is part of the (International Congress of Maritime Museums) would display any of these items," the museum’s registrar Lynn-Marie Richard said in a recent interview....	8th January 2012
Times of India	TITANIC GAVE A VALUABLE LESSON TO SHIP-MAKERS The sinking of luxury passenger liner Titanic on April 14, 1912 gave an important lesson to ship builders world over - that a ship, merely by being double-bottomed, does not become unsinkable.Since then, all large cargo vessels carrying oil the world over have become double-hulled rather than just being double-bottomed as was the case with Titanic, a senior official of Gujarat Adani Port Ltd said. ...	6th January 2006
google.com	TITANIC WRECK 'COULD BECOME MUSEUM' The wreck of the Titanic could become an underwater museum, its discoverer said.Footage of the doomed vessel, which now has Unesco world heritage protection, from 4,000m under the ocean off the coast of Canada could be broadcast live, Dr Robert Ballard said.The oceanographer uncovered the vessel in 1985 and said the technology existed to beam material from the depths across the world."I see the Titanic becoming an underwater museum, accessed, with wonderful facilities," he said. "We hope to come live on the anniversary of the discovery, September 1."...	14th April 2012
World Records Academy	MOST EXPENSIVE LETTER FROM TITANIC-WORLD RECORD SET BY SPINK SMYTHE letter, dated April 10, 1912, from a first class passenger onboard the Titanic (written by passenger George Graham of Harriston of Canada, a sales manager for the Eaton's department store company, to a business colleague in Berlin, Germany) was sold at auction by Spink Smythe in New York City for $16,100-setting the world record for the Most expensive letter from Titanic....	24th February 2009
New York Times	TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES Mrs. Lilly Potter, 98, Was ‘Grand Old Lady’ of Red Cross --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2---Mrs. Lilly A. Wilson Potter, a descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims who was known as the “Grand Old Lady...	3rd January 1954
gigcity.ca	A BOATLOAD OF UNHAPPY MEMORIES IN TITANIC EXHIBIT There’s no other way to describe it: it’s a Titanic show. Telus World of Science will feed the public’s continuing morbid fascination with the world’s most famous ocean liner disaster, beginning Oct. 8, when Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition begins a limited engagement. It’s a touring show of 200 items from the legendary shipwreck. Titanic — which its engineer had bragged was unsinkable — struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. More than 1,500 people died, notably due to an absence of adequate life rafts. That unsinkable confidence, it turns out, really was a downer....	8th September 2011
The Sun (New York)	MEDIUM TELLS OF WORD FROM STEAD Swoons At Seance, Then Re-enacts "Last Scenes Aboard the Titanic" --- Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN --- MANCHESTER, May 13---The Daily Despatch says that it hears that a message was...	14th May 1912
National Roll of the Great War	WALTER FRANCIS FREDERICKS WAR SERVICE RECORD FREDERICK, W., Fireman, Merchant Service. He volunteered in 1914, and during the war served in many ships, included among which was H.M.H.S. " Western Australia." He was engaged on important transport and hospital...
Bristol Times and Mirror	GRAPHIC STORIES OF HEROISM The New York correspondent of the ''Daily Telegraph'' cables a special and graphic message regarding the heroism of some of the women in the wreck. According to this source of information: The heroism of Edith Evans, who gave up her own life that ano...	27th April 1912
	ALGONQUIN 1939 The Algonquin, Mohawk's sister ship and the rescuer of most of her survivors, is seen here in a stylised 1939 graphic promoting her service between Gulf ports and the New York World's Fair. In July 1940 she caught fire and sank at her pier in New York City. She was raised and repaired, and transferred to the Porto Rico Line when she returned to service in 1941. Her career with them was brief: in January 1942 she taken over by the US Military, and after serving as both a transport and a hospital ship, was laid up in 1946 and scrapped in 1957....	1939
National Geographic	TITANIC INTERACTIVE TIMELINE BRINGS HISTORY OF THE TITANIC TO LIFE Building Titanic: An Interactive Timeline When RMS Titanic was completed, she was the biggest man-made moving object on the planet. It would take thousands of Harland & Wolff shipbuilders in Belfast, Northern Ireland three years to construct her. When Titanic sailed her maiden voyage on April 10, 1912, she was hailed ‘the new wonder of the world’ — she was the largest and most luxuriously appointed ship the world had ever seen. Now you can experience the incredible history of one of mankind's most remarkable feats of engineering. Travel through time to watch Titanic come to life, and don't forget to stop at key milestones along to way to explore the many fascinating stories behind this enduring marvel....	23rd June 2011
Rahway Daily Record	WITH FLAGS AT HALF STAFF RAHWAY SHOWS HER SORROW Honor to the dead who went down in the ill-fated Titanic is being is being paid in this city today. The flags on the police station and on all the public schools were half-staffed by order of Councilman-at-Large John Farrell. Rahway has felt the fo...	18th April 1912
winnipegfreepress.com	SHIPLOAD OF TITANIC BOOKS AS 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF SINKING NEARS Does the world need more books about the Titanic? Probably about as much as it needs a 3-D version of James Cameron's movie. Still, a veritable shipload is being released to commemorate the April 14 100th anniversary of the sinking. While the world would continuing spinning without most of them, happily, the titles discussed are all first-rate. All tell the well-trod tale of the rich and famous who sailed on the White Star Line's ill-fated luxury liner; some highlight the effects the catastrophe had on the survivors, and others tell the story of the officers and crew. Two are by Canadians; John Boileau and Hugh Brewster fill out neglected stories of Canadian victims and Halifax's role in the recovery and identification of the 1,517 lost....	24th March 2012
	CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY : HENRY WILDE THE appalling disaster to the Titanic has taken away, in the person of Lieut, H. T. Wilde, RNR, one of the most promising officers serving with the White Star Line. Lieut. Wilde, who was chief officer of the Titanic, commenced his sea career in the s...	1912
Unidentified Newspaper	UNTITLED Joseph Duquemin of 47 Tormuck La., a veteran of World Ward I, died this morning at Stamford Hospital after a lingering illness. Born in England on November 24th 1892 Mr. Duquemin was a resident of Stamford, for 24 years. he was formerl...	6th January 1950
	H. M. T. OLYMPIC LEAVING SOUTHAMPTON The Ship that Brought me home Left Southampton June 7th - Arrived halifax June 132th 1919 1914 - Canadian Expeditionary Force - 1918 Mons St Eloi Neuve Chapelle Y...
PR News	WORLD'S LARGEST TITANIC MUSEUM OPENS The Titanic attraction, officially named "The World's Largest Titanic Museum Attraction," opened in March.Museum owner John Joslyn is a former television producer who dove to the wreck in a submersible in 1987 and produced the documentary "Return to the Titanic ... Live."Joslyn has been a collector of Titanic artifacts and opened a smaller, similar attraction in Orlando, Fla., that he sold to build the Branson museum.The Titanic building looms above Missouri 76, Branson's Strip. The 100-foot-tall building recreates the bow of the ship, complete with a pool at its base that sprays water as though it were cutting through the ocean....	30th March 2006
New York Times	MEMORIAL NOTICE STRAUS--- A Special Meeting of the Board Of Directors of Montefiore Home, held April 21, 1912. The President, Jacob H. Schiff, announced the melancholy death of the Honorable Isidor Straus and his devoted wife in the dis...	22nd April 1912
The Sphere	OLYMPIC ENTERING THOMPSON GRAVING DOCK Takes 23,000,000 gallons to fill...	30th September 1911
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	MINISTER WHO WED ASTOR QUITS CHURCH The Rev. Joseph Lambert Resigns Pulpit in Providence Because of Criticism --- SAYS HE'LL GO INTO BUSINESS --- Many a Pastor Has Done for Poor Men What He Did for a Rich One and Escaped Censure, He Declares ---...	8th November 1911
News of the World	LOST IN THE TITANIC Hays, Head, Stead, Straus, Guggenheim...	21st April 1912
irishemigrant.com	BELFAST TRIP A TITANIC-SIZED EYE-OPENER - THE NEW YORK IRISH EMGIRANT I’m standing in the middle of an ever-growing crowd of people, a sense of great excitement heightening all around me. All of a sudden we are thrown back in time, to May 31, 1911. I can actually feel what it must have been like for the folks whose lives played out here at this famous shipyard - Harland and Wolff, birthplace of the Titanic and, at the time, the largest shipbuilding company in the world. ... A certain sense of expectation continues as Belfast readies itself for its bow on the world stage come April 15, 2012, when it will commemorate the hundredth anniversary of that unforgettable human tragedy: the sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage to New York. Never ready to forget the lives lost, the lives of those who built Titanic, and how it all played out in history, Belfast is hard at work readying itself for the event....	23rd August 2011
dailymail.co.uk	TITANIC MUSEUM TO CELEBRATE DISASTER'S CENTENARY WITH DESCENDANTS OF VICTIMS The world's largest Titanic museum will mark the centenary of the ship's sinking by welcoming descendants of survivors and victims. The ceremony on April 14 - exactly 100 years after the world's most famous passenger liner collided with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and sunk - will include a symbolic re-enactment of the launching of the ship's distress flares. A memorial flame will also be lit to commemorate the 1,517 passengers and crew who perished during the fateful voyage in 1912 Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114391/Titanic-museum-celebrate-disasters-centenary-descendants-victims-survivors-aboard-half-size-replica-doomed-ship.html#ixzz1p1lseE8h ...	13th March 2012
	NOW THE DAY IS OVER The Hymn "Now the Day is Over" was one of those sung at the hymn service lead by Revd. Ernest Courtenay Carter. Sabine Baring-Gould (1825-1878) wrote the lyrics, in 1865, and the tune “Merrial” was composed by Sir Joseph Barnby (1838-1896)...
The Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand)	ROUND-THE-WORLD RESEARCH Nowadays there seems to be no dearth in the number of adventurers to remote parts of the earth. The latest ambitious project in the sailing line, says an Australian paper, is a cruise round the world in a 3000-ton yacht named...	25th October 1924

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