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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sometimes, even among the best families, accidents will happen. In Nagyrev village, one Mrs. Fazekas was much in demand as a "wise woman'' or midwife because of the frequency with which unwanted babies were born dead under her ministrations. Unfortunately mothers often died as well. One day Mrs. Fazekas saw a fly sip from a saucer in which was a sheet of arsenical flypaper, drop dead. She saw a chicken eat the fly and drop dead in turn. Mrs. Fazekas pondered these interesting phenomena, then ordered great quantities of flypaper from neighboring villages...
Babies were no longer born dead in Nagyrev. They died a few days later, of cholic. In Nagyrev churchyard sprang up a whole row of little graves, all beautifully cared for, for they belonged to Nagyrev's best families...
...calm of Apia was suddenly burst and rocked by an explosion within the Carnegie. Commander Ault was hurled past the masts, into the sea, dead. The Carnegie took fire, burned herself and five nearby ships beyond salvage...
...Commerce regulations stipulate 1,000 ft. as minimum over congested areas. To quiet metropolitan hysteria two planes of the Gates Flying Service last week cut off their motors at 3,000 ft. over the centre of the island and glided, with moderate wind to help them, to safe, dead stick landings at New York's outskirts. An ordinary commercial plane has an average gliding ratio of 8 to 1. From a half mile height it can glide four miles in still...
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