Wilkes Barre

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North American	SEVEN WILKES-BARRE PERSONS ARE MISSING Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 18---Charles Thomas, a small storekeeper of this city; Mrs. Joseph Thomas and infant son, Anthony Yosbik, Joseph and Peter Simon and Brenton Harry, all of this city,...	19th April 1912
	DR HENRY FRAUENTHAL ONE OF TITANIC SURVIVORS Dr Henry W. Frauenthal, noted New York Surgeon and head of the Hospital for Deformative and Joint Diseases, of which he was one of the organisers. He was a native of Wilkes-Barre and recently went to Europ...
	BETROS AND ZAHIE KHALIL Betros and Zahie Khalil were married. Betros and his wife were going to Wilkes Barre to meet his brother, Joseph Harry (formerly Joseph Khalil) who was my grandfather. ...
Virginia Pilot	MRS. CELINEY DECKER, 69, SURVIVOR OF LINER 'TITANIC' NORFOLK--Mrs. Celiney Alexander Decker, 69, of 1158 Larchmont Crescent, who as a 15-year-old immigrant bride from Lebanon survived the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in 1912, died Thursday at 5:30 P.M. in a hospital. Only one other ...	11th March 1966
Standard Speaker	WOMAN'S MOTHER, UNCLE AND BROTHER WERE ON TITANIC Eighty-six-year-old Mae Thomas recalls the first time she shared a story about her mother and infant brother surviving the sinking of the Titanic. "I was 6 years old and I went to the school teacher and told her my mom was a survivor from the Titanic," Thomas said Friday at a dinner event in Drums. "I was in history class and my teacher didn't believe me." When school let out that day, Mae's teacher showed up at her Stanton Street home in Wilkes-Barre and asked Mae's mother if the story was true. "My mother told her, 'My daughter does not lie. I am a survivor,'" Mae said. ...	1st October 2011
Cornishman	ANOTHER PENZANCE PASSENGER SAVED Among the further list of passengers this morning appears the name of Ellen Wickes (Wilkes). Mr. Ludlow has received the following telegram: Name reported on Carpathia as Ellen Wickes. As we have no passenger of that name I think it must be E...	18th April 1912
North American	U. S. HIS LIFE GOAL, HE WENT DOWN ON TITANIC WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 20---After waiting for years for his relatives to save enough money to pay his passage from England to this city, where he was to make his home with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Adams, of Oxford street, Henry Rogers, 19 years old, ...	21st April 1912
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Henry Rogers, of Tavistock, a second class passenger, was the son of the late Mr J G Rogers, stone mason, and grandson of Mr J S Rogers, who carries on the business at Tavistock. The young man was 18 years of age and had been in service with Rev. Ma...	18th April 1912
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW No news has been received as to the fate of Mrs Ellen Wilkes, who hailed from Penzance. She travelled third class, whilst the other members of the party of a dozen from Penzance on the Titanic travelled second class. Mrs Wilkes, who had latterly be...	18th April 1912
Newark Star	SIX BULLET HOLES TITANIC MEMENTOES Survivor Tells of Being Shot at by Officers While Entering Lifeboat --- WILKES BARRE, [sic] Pa., April 22---The story of having been shot at by officers on the Titanic when he sought to enter a lifeboat when the great liner was going...	23rd April 1912
Washington Post	THELMA THOMAS, 78, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 8 (AP)—Thelma Thomas, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Monday at a nursing home where she had been a patient for three weeks. She was 78. A native of Le...	9th January 1974
Guernsey Press and Star	ISLAND'S TITANIC CONNECTION James Varley TITANIC'S journey and demise in 1912 is legendary. Archive film footage, news cuttings and big-budget movies mean the tragic tale of the ship dubbed 'unsinkable' will never be forgotten....	9th October 2009
The Milford Cabinet	MILFORD MAN WAS ON TITANIC Emilio Portalupi tells of thrilling experience....	April 1912