Titanic victim Benjamin Guggenheim sends wife final message
James Etches, first cabin steward, recalls delivering a deathbed note from Benjamin Guggenheim. Guggenheim and his secretary Giglio faced the disaster in evening dress, helping others and insisting women and children go first as they perished. The steward recounts the men’s final acts and the message to Mrs. Guggenheim in New York.
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James Etches
St. Regis Hotel
Benjamin Guggenheim
Guggenheim
Daniel Guggenheim
St. Regis
Mr. Guggenheim
Giglio
Guggenheim keeps focus on safety after Titanic disaster
Daniel Guggenheim calls for drastic reform after the sinking, urging lifeboat expansion, trained crews, fresh food aboard, and security measures. He criticizes luxury and speed that endangered passengers and advocates government inquiry and military discipline aboard liners.
Mauretania Sails South to Spare Ice Fatal Titanic Echoes
Cunard liner Mauretania steered south of ice off the Grand Banks delaying New York arrival after learning of the Titanic disaster. Passengers included A A Booth and many notables. a lifeboat debate stirred by the tragedy. A first cabin passenger aboard jumped overboard on the second day, body never found.
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Turner
Grand Banks
New York
Mauretania
A. A. Booth
Cunard Company
Booth
T. J. Madden
Liverpool
Edward. W. Bill
Philadelphia
Charles Lancaster
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
J. Horace Harding
James D. Allan
Robert Allerton
B. J. Bennett
D. H. Brandon
Frank L. Brown
Francis E. Drake
W. de la Guardia
Washington
Albert Halstead
Birmingham
England
H. C. Hutchins
Marquis de Olivart
John C. Phillips
John Steward
C. F. Street
Yamaza
Stoughton Walker
Western Union and Marconi Wireless Reach Land Link Deal
Rumors of a pact between the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co of America and Western Union Telegraph Co were confirmed. The agreement sets Marconi in a land telegraph role similar to cable firms, with two high power wireless stations planned to connect New York and London and to link islands across the Pacific. Stock gains and split shares trigger a unique arbitrage scene on the curb as investors speculate on the new capital structure and the evolving wireless network.
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Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America
Western Union Telegraph Company
Wall Street
London
Marconi
Holland House
W. L. McEwen
Marconi System
Western Union
Marconi Company
United Wireless Company
London Cable Dispatches
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company
England
New York City
New York
Glace Bay
Clifton
Great Northwestern Telegraph Company of Canada
Ocean Cable
Telegraph Company
Pacific
United States
Asiatic
Hawaiiian Islands
Philippine Islands
China
Japan
Marconi Gearhasts
Caribbean
Peralte Fa Wes
United ‘Wireless
Qld
Bayonne Man Seeks News On Titanic Missing Norwegian
E H Bull of Bayonne New Jersey placed an advertisement in the Lost and Found columns of The New York Times seeking information about Arne Salstrom a nineteen year old Norwegian boy who may have gone down with the Titanic. Bull says Salstrom is the son of a Norwegian theatre owner and was to visit the United States. He did not know the boy’s appearance.
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E. H. Bull
Linden Street
Bayonne
N. J
NEW York Times
Arne Salstrom
Nathan Straus Illness Report Clarified in Cable
Nathan Straus Jr received a cablegram from his mother saying his father was perfectly well. Rev Dr J L Magnes with the Straus family in Jerusalem telegraphed that the earlier illness report was inaccurate noting only a slight indigestion and that his condition remains robust.
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Nathan Straus, Jr
J. L. Magnes
Isidor Straus Fate Details Revealed by Mrs Straus’s Maid
Mabel Bird, the Strauses’ maid, who survived the wreck, related yesterday the fate of Mr and Mrs Isidor Straus. Bird had worked for the family for a week after replacing Mrs Straus’s former maid. She arrived at the Cunard pier Thursday night and began recounting events.
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Isidor Straus
Mabel Bird
Titanic Witness Describes Final Moments of Strauses
Miss Bird recounted aid given aboard the Atlantic liner to Mr and Mrs Isidor Straus and their valet John Farthing. She said the Strauses stayed together as the Carpathia rescued survivors and that she later learned they did not return. Dr Alfred Hess noted Bird could return to London if desired.
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Alfred F. Hess
West Seventy-second
Isidor Straus
Percy Straus
West Seventy-first Street
Miss_Bird
Mrs. Straus
Mr. Straus
John Farthing
New York
Man Driven to Religious Mania After Titanic Wreck
David Burns, an employee at Howard Gould's Castle Gould estate in Port Washington, became insane this morning, claiming the Titanic disaster was divine punishment. He raved that the blood of Jesus Christ will redeem the people and that Helen Gould and Mrs Clarence Mackay are angels. He was arrested and taken to Kings Park Hospital for the Insane by a constable.
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New York Times
Port Washington
L. L
David Burns
Howard Gould
Castle Gouia
Jesus Christ
Helen Gould
Clarence Mackay
Kings Park Hospital
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Benjamin Gunenheim
the Times
Rene Pernot
Hne
Congressional Committee
Guggenheim Brothers
F. C. Ditmar
Pacific Coast
Robert Guggenheim
San Diego
Wal
Cunard Greyhound
Cunard Head
Marconi Wireless
Mr. Marconi
Nahan Franko
Sip Up Co
Majestic
Simpson Crawford CO
Sixth Avenue
Nathan Straus
Merchant
Straus
MAID
MR. and
Mrs. Isidor Straus
Mep
Beth
Amy
Louisa M . Alcott
Daisy
Meg
March
Louise Shrimpton
Tiarmee
Margaret E Sangster
Serene Rom
Miss Gould
Grace Tabor
Herbert B Opijohn
My Lady’s
J Stag Rae
H.W Dewey
Frank A Waugh
Ovi
Steange
Europe
the Crowell Publishing Company
Fourth Avenue
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