Balanced News: Rare Titanic menu, victim’s pocket watch each sell for over $100,000

A rare menu from the Titanic’s first-class restaurant, a pocket watch from a victim of the 1912 disaster, and a deck blanket from the ill-fated ocean liner were sold at auction in the U.K. The menu, dated April 11, 1912, sold for £83,000 ($101,600), showing what the passengers ate three days before the ship sank. The pocket watch, belonging to a Russian immigrant who died in the disaster, sold for £97,000 ($118,700), and the tartan blanket sold for £96,000 ($117,500). The items were found among the personal belongings of a Canadian historian, and their origins are unknown.