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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1912
Page
6
Senator Smith pressed for full disclosure from Marconi and ship operators as the Titanic disaster investigation resumes. Officials like P A S Franklin and J Bruce Ismay welcomed the move to question crew and gather official logs while asserting no friction within the committee.
Captain Stanley Lord of the Leyland liner Californian heads to Washington to answer Senate questions about signals during the Titanic disaster. Engineer Ernest Gill alleges the Californian was within 10–20 miles and saw rockets yet did not move to assist. Gill recounts rockets, crew observations, and orders, while Lord defends his innocence and refrains from comment.
Readers are invited to place sketches in contact one atop another and hold them to a light to reveal the body’s exact internal outline inside Hilton’s natural or anatomical coat.
Captain Moore of the Mount Temple travels to Washington to testify before the Senate Titanic disaster inquiry and dispute stories he refused to go to the doomed liner. J. Durrant, wireless operator, recounts C Q D calls and ship responses from 10:25 p m to 12:06 a m and subsequent messages from Carpathia Frankfurt Olympic and others. The Mount Temple assisted as boats were prepared and positions checked, with reports of survivors and no clear count.
A reader to the Post denounces Senator William Alden Smith and his Senate Committee of Inquiry over the Titanic wreck. The letter calls the questioning asinine and argues the investigation shames America, urging readers to view the United States as ridiculed by Europe.
London observers split over the American Titanic disaster inquiry with moral papers attacking Senator Smith and the American task while The Morning Post mocks his decorum and The Daily Chronicle defends the urgent, energetic pursuit of facts and opinions from the United States.
A 1912 advertisement examines shoe wear life and cost per year. It estimates 1280 hours or about three months of daily wear for a $4 pair, with a six month leather and outsole indemnity bond at $4.50 per pair, promising lower yearly costs than typical $9 to $16 annual shoe spending. It promotes Regal Bonded Six-Month Shoes as a value option.
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