Highlights from the Detroit Free Press, April 21, 1912…
EIGHT SURVIVORS OF TITANIC HERE; SICK OF HORRORS: TWO WOMEN, NERVE-SHATTERED AND HYSTERICAL; THREE CHILDREN, ONE A BABY ONLY ONE YEAR OLD; THREE BELGIANS, STEERAGE PASSENGERS SEEKING NEW WORLD FORTUNES, ARRIVE IN DETROIT. TELL AGAIN GRIM STORY OF TRAGEDY AND SUBLIME HEROISM MRS. FRED QUICK AND MRS. JOHN HAMLIN RELATE HOW THEY WERE PLACED IN BOATS AS SHIP WAS SINKING; LATTER LAST WOMAN IN LAST LIFEBOAT SWUNG OVER SIDE; MEN SAY THEY SWAM TO SAFETY. TITANIC SURVIVORS IN DETROIT.
TITANIC PROBE WILL BE DRIVEN DEEPLY MONDAY: J. BRUCE ISMAY AND VICE PRESIDENT FRANKLIN, OF WHITE STAR LINE WILL BE QUESTIONED IN WASHINGTON. INQUIRY IN NEW YORK SHOWS ICEBERG WARNINGS IGNORED DETERMINED EFFORT WILL BE MADE IN SPITE OF ALL EVASIONS TO FIX RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SEA HORROR. DEVELOPMENTS.
WORLD WILL WEEP TODAY FOR VICTIMS: CHURCHES OF TWO CONTINENTS WILL HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR THE 1,635 LOST OF THE TITANIC DISASTER OF MONDAY.
TAKING RESCUED ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA AT SEA [PDF] Detroit Free Press
CROWD AWAITING TITANIC SURVIVORS ON THE CUNARD LINE PIER IN NEW YORK
“WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST”–THE CAPTAIN LAST: THIS IS THE TRADITION OF THE SEA AND THE RULE IS RECOGNIZED AND OBEYED BY MEN OF ALL CLASSES AND ALL NATIONS.
GLOWING TRIBUTE PAID TO C. L. FREER’S ART EXHIBIT: WASHINGTON CRITIC ENRAPTURED WITH DETROITER’S EXTENSIVE COLLECTION NOW ON VIEW IN NATIONAL MUSEUM AT WASHINGTON, WHERE IT IS ATTRACTING WORLD-WIDE ATTENTION.
CROWD ESTIMATED AT 26,000 PARTICIPATES IN DEDICATION OF NAVIN FIELD STADIUM; JUNGALEERS BEAT CLEVELAND IN 11 INNINGS: MULLIN’S GREAT WORK IN PINCHES ENABLES HIM TO STAVE OFF DEFEAT. HIS SINGLE SENDS WINNING RUN ACROSS AFTER BUSH AND STANAGE HAVE HIT SAFELY IN FINAL ROUND.
THORPE AND SHERIDAN WILL FIGURE IN OLYMPIC GAMES: UNITED STATES WILL LOOK TO THEM TO SCORE POINTS IN BIG EVENT IN SWEDEN–MANY OTHER STARS MAY TURN UP TO HELP THE TEAMS.
300 ARE DEAD, 50,000 HOMELESS IN FLOODS NEW ORLEANS REPORTS
CONDUCTOR’S NOSE BROKEN: PERE MARQUETTE PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE AT BAD AXE.
HORSELESS AGE NOT IMPROBABLE: GLEESON MURPHY, OF THE GENERAL MOTORS TRUCK CO., SAYS BEAST IS DOOMED.
POLITICS FAILS TO STOP PROSPERITY: PRESIDENTIAL YEAR NO COLD WATER DOUCHE TO THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY.
INCREASE WAGES DECREASE HOURS: HUPP MOTOR CAR CO. EMPLOYEES GO ON 9-HOUR DAY AT 10-HOUR PAY.
MICHIGAN IN NATURE AND STORY: LOTS OF SWEETNESS IS MANUFACTURED EACH YEAR IN THIS “SUGAR BUSH” NEAR MASON, LARGEST IN MICHIGAN ORCHARD COMPRISES 80 ACRES, WHERE 2,200 TREES EACH SPRING YIELD UP THEIR SAP. SOME HAVE BEEN TAPPED 70 YEARS FROM THEM THE INDIANS MADE SUGAR IN THE DAYS BEFORE THE WHITE MEN CAME.
PRETTIEST RESORT ALONG THE GRAND: THAT IS THE CLAIM EATON RAPIDS PEOPLE MAKE FOR THEIR RIVERSIDE PARK.
OLD AGE PENSIONS.: NOTED WRITER DOES NOT SEE ANY DANGER IN THE PROPOSITION.
SUFFRAGE AND THE HOME : NO DANGER OF ILL EFFECTS ARE SEEN BY THIS ADVOCATE OF EQUAL FRANCHISE.
A LITTLE SAGE AND SULPHUR MAKES THE GRAY HAIR VANISH: A HARMLESS WAY TO DARKEN HAIR; SIMPLE REMEDY FOR ALL HAIR TROUBLES.
SURELY TAKE “SYRIP OF FIGS” IF HEADACHY, BILIOUS, CONSTIPATED: SWEETENS YOUR STOMACH, CLEARS YOUR HEAD AND THOROUGHLY CLEANSES YOUR LIVER AND 30 FEET OF BOWELS OF SOUR BILE, FOUL GASES AND CLOGGED-UP WASTE.
WHY A RING IS WORN ON FINGER: STRANGE CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS ORNAMENT.
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