April the Fourteenth Day

April171912titanicIf you can’t shake Blind Willie Johnson’s “God Moves On the Water” out of your head as you comb through back issues of The Chatham Record at the Chatham Community Library, odds are pretty good you will end up looking at issues from April, 1912.

Sure enough, here is The Chatham Record’s initial report on the Titanic, published April 17, 1912, three days after the event.

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