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- <text id=93HT0081>
- <title>
- 1920s: In Dead of Night
- </title>
- <history>TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1920s Highlights</history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- IMMIGRATION
- March 12, 1923
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>In Dead of Night
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- <p> Anna Putriuniate, 17, native of Lithuania, dressmaker in
- Montreal, Canada, wanted to become a resident of the U.S. She
- paid a man $50 to show her how. He took her one Sunday night to
- the gorge dam at Niagara Falls, lowered her by a rope to the
- trestle of the Michigan Central Railroad. With little, cautious
- steps she walked along the cold steel girders, while the
- Whirlpool Rapids 250 feet below howled at her. She was shrewd
- enough to put her legs in trousers instead of flapping,
- treacherous skirts. She reached U.S. soil. Last week she was
- arrested with four other young women who had crossed from Canada
- in rowboats the night after her bridge-walk. All were held as
- witnesses against a band of five alien smugglers. Commented the
- New York World: "Perhaps, then, in wattle huts and thatched
- roofs, in crowded slums and picturesque villages of the old
- familiar parts of the world, they still think of this [U.S.] as
- the promised land. Hearing their stories, we can hardly do less
- than strive to make it that."
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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