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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1912
Page
6
The general claim that most Titanic women survived is contradicted by the passenger list. The tally shows 135 women among the fatalities, including 16 first saloon passengers, with additional children also lost. The published list names those who perished.
Advertises Ely's Cream Balm as a fast acting remedy for nasal catarrh. Claims to cleanse and heal sore membranes, relieve headache and coughing, and stop discharge. States balm is mercury and cocaine free, easy to apply, and available for fifty cents from druggists.
A long list of women and their maids appears, naming Mrs. Allison and Mrs. Evans among many others such as Miss Florence L. and Miss A. E. Penu. The roster includes Mrs. Elizabeth W. and Mrs. Max F. Straus, Mrs. Isidor Wood, Mrs. Barry, Miss Nellie Del Varlo, and Miss Ida C. Yodis.
A long list of passenger names appears under Third Cabin steerage on a ship manifest. The roster includes Johanna Alice Ahlin Ida Arnold Josephine Bontos Hanna Buckley Katherine Burke Mary Burns Mary Canavan Maria Doyle Ellen Driscoll Bridget Dahlberg Gerda Dowdell Elizabeth Dalbom Foofa Ford Margaret Goodwin and many others.
Newport Illinois April 22 A Titanic related death struckWilliam Augustus Spencer of Paris executor named by his brother Lorillard Spencer in his will He was en route to probate the instrument His brother Lorillard Spencer Jr and Wolcott G Lane of New York named executors Mrs Lorillard Spencer mourns the news after her husband s death.
A skin specialist promotes ethine double strength offered by Houghton & Dutton Drug Co and Riker Jaynes Drug Co under an absolute money back guarantee. The product claims rapid improvement with first use and is described as harmless to tender skin.
Report suggests the Titanic and the abandoned hull of the Erne rest within a short distance of each other on the ocean bottom. The Erne sank after gale wreckage was sighted off longitude 50.14 west. Crew were rescued by the Cuban. a revenue cutter failed to locate the hull.
Patrick H. O'Connor of Quebec asked Manchester police to take charge fearing he was going mad after the Titanic sinking. He believed his sister had drowned and had written of plans to sail from England on the White Star liner. He offered to pay his own expenses and hospital care.
Mrs. Robert C. Cornell wife of a New York city magistrate was among the first Titanic survivors to debark the Carpathia and testified that the scenes at the sinking seemed insane to the rescued passengers. She recalled her husband meeting her on the pier and spoke of the night of horror as almost driving her mad.
Swedish immigrant Ernest Person told how he remained aboard the Titanic as it went down then surfaced to cling to a floating door and be hauled into a lifeboat by a crewman. He described calm aboard the doomed liner, the band playing, and his rescue by the Carpathia.
Emily Bayne of Brewsters sues Patrick Ryan builder of the Manhattan bridge for 175 dollars claiming she tended and bathed his injured feet at his farm in Brewsters. John Kinney testified Ryan suffered a bruised swollen foot and arm from an accident.
Secretary MacVeagh urged Congress to reimburse Count Von Bernstorff the sum of 3.45 for services in trying to locate heirs of John A. Beck. Beck a Civil War veteran born in Wurtemburg Germany died in 1895 in the Government Asylum for the Insane in Washington leaving an estate with no funds to reimburse the ambassador.
An advertisement promises instant relief from piles with Pyramid Pile Remedy. It urges readers to request a free trial, claims rapid healing, and suggests buying a regular 50 cent package at a drug store afterward.
A coupon offer invites readers to mail to Pyramid Drug Co in Marshall Michigan with full name and address to receive a free sample of Pyramid Pile Remedy. The ad promises mailed sample in a plain wrapper at no cost.
A brief note from Sate D. Brown & Co. Tucson touts the wn'a Panel Board as delivering a warm house in cold weather a cool house in warm weather and a pleasant house in all weather, claiming reliable performance.
A Pittsburg resident recounts a month long facial sore that blistered and crusted before using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. After minimal use the skin healed in one week, with the ad praising Cuticura for treating pimples and other skin and scalp conditions.
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