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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1920
Page
6
John L. Cope, leader of the Shackleton British Antarctic Expedition, recounts his 1916 Ross Island experience. While guiding three men across a dangerous glacier he failed to see a nearly snow-covered crevice. A sharp slip revealed the peril during the perilous trek.
A man describes a plunge into a crevasse where the ice is blue and pink, the sides narrow then widen, and he hangs suspended by a sledge harness. Comrades pull ropes, fashion a rope ladder, and slowly haul him up despite frozen hands and a perilous ascent.
The passage describes a person T gripping a rope ladder and being hauled onto an icefield, then continuing the journey after hanging for three and a half hours over a bottomless void. The fragment preserves perilous travel and endurance in extreme conditions.
Miss Zabel Tashjian, saved from atrocity during Armenian deportations, lives with her uncle J. M. Dagalin in Butler New Jersey. She pleas for American aid through Milwaukee friends, praising Near East Relief as the sole hope for her stricken people.
A young Armenian described fleeing from Constantinople to Harpoot during World War I, recounting killings by Kurds and Turkish troops, family losses, and the plea for American aid to save hundreds of thousands of women and children from suffering and death. She notes Armenians faced deportation, murder, and destruction even after Armistice as survivors remained endangered.
In Porto Rico hookworm infections are described as the island’s most serious economic problem, with a 90 percent rural infection rate. Rockefeller Foundation officials offer cooperation to the government and plan a campaign against anemia and hookworm, citing historical roots from slavery and linking infection to mental retardation in children.
The Maine Alabama Wisconsin Minnesota Kentucky and Kearsarge, stationed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, are to be dismantled after an order from the Navy Department. None saw combat, completed after the Spanish-American War, and to be sold as scrap or used as gun practice forets. All were part of the fleet that sailed the world in 1908.
Berlin schools will weigh and measure children at the start of each term. A special school will be established for pupils unable to follow regular instruction due to deficient eyesight.
The fragment suggests that those who survived will perish without continued American aid for a period. It frames ongoing support as vital to prevent loss among survivors amid crisis.
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