! An extraordinary plague of moths descended on New York recently. They enmo from New England, where they had been destroying the crops, and for hours swarined through the entire city, invading in myriads restaurants, hotels, and private hnusos, almost pholiiiiE: late diners, and falling in millions until the streets were thickly covered with white-winged insects'. The moths invaded the composing room of the Now York "Times," stopping work, and they hovered like all endless cloud over the whole of Broadway and Fifth Avenue as far as' the Battery .ft distance of fully eight miles.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 314, 29 September 1908, Page 4
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