Onions saved our Great Grandfather Gaspare from starving on the long journey to America. Plus, why we even went back to the US.

-Ship Manifests from the USS Argentina and the USS Franconia, and Naturalization Records of Gaspare/Gasper Adamo sourced from Ellis Island Passenger Search database and Ancestry.com. -

Other Sources:
The National Immigration Museum, Ellis Island
https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/forze-di-polizia/
https://www.carabinieri.it/chi-siamo/oggi/organizzazione/tutela-forestale-ambientale-e-agroalimentare
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-19277-9_9
https://shiphistory.org/themes/immigration/
https://www.ggarchives.com/OceanTravel/ImmigrantShips/Franconia.html
https://www.history.com/news/immigrants-ellis-island-short-processing-time
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/summer/women-and-naturalization-1.html
https://immigrantsassistancecenter.com/what-was-it-like-on-immigrant-ships/
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/new-beginnings-immigrant-women-and-the-american-experience-national-women%E2%80%99s-history-museum/mQXRyiVkZcVkLw?hl=en
https://archive.org/details/harvardencyclope00ther
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpim1.htm
https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/our-history/overview-of-ins-history/early-american-immigration-policies
Cavaioli, Frank J. "Patterns of Italian Immigration to the United States" (PDF). The Catholic Social Science Review