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From Cobh, Ireland, Mary Callaghan, 22, sailed up New York Harbor aboard the S. S. Baltic. Ahead was the Statue of Liberty—as grand a sight as Mary ever saw. She felt like cheering. She waved her arms. Down into the sludgy water fell her purse with $60, and her precious passport to the U. S.
To Ellis Island she was taken to await identification. In Pittsburgh, Secretary of Labor James John Davis read a newsstory of Mary’s predicament. Once an immigrant himself (at the age of eight), he commanded that Mary Callaghan’s cheers and waves could be her passport. She was admitted, and went to work in Chicago.
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