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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1913
Page
7
A detailed retrospective recounts the polar disasters of Scott Franklin Greely Hall Andree DeLong and others. It traces search efforts and the fate of each expedition crew including mutinies hunger and exposure.
Captain Roald Amundsen described the scene facing Scott and four companions on the polar ice, detailing exhaustion and illness, the blizzard, and the lack of ponies or dogs as they struggled toward the barrier at the 79th parallel. He contrasted their fate with Shackleton’s near miss and affirmed plans for a North Pole expedition, stressing a scientific aim and denying aeroplane use. telegrams of condolence followed from Terra Nova and Christ Church.
Yelsa Raffe, a laborer, was badly injured while working at the new Commonwealth docks. He slipped into a deep hole as dirt from a cart collapsed on him and he died of head and body injuries after being brought to City Hospital.
The drive to conquer polar and southern frontiers has dark history with hundreds of lives lost and vast costs. Adventurers and mariners repeatedly chase the ultimate conquest, time and again risking catastrophe for glory and gain.
An old time tonic claims to darken gray hair quickly using sage and sulphur. Advertised at local drug stores, the remedy supposedly makes hair appear naturally dark and healthy after a single application, with benefits like reduced dandruff and halted hair loss.
Professor Thomas J. Preston and his bride Mrs. Grover Cleveland will depart Princeton tomorrow morning for Ormond, Florida, to spend a several week honeymoon. They expect to return before Easter and spent the day at Westland, the Cleveland estate, in preparation.
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