Elizabeth City, Sept. 10—"Mosquitoes four times as thick as bees, ravenous as tigers,and some so old that they were turning gray” were reported as swarming on Roanoke Island by the millions last week by Walter Swain of this city, who has just returned from a business trip to the island.
“People on the island said that the mosquitoes were the worst they had seen in 30 years. I had to beat them off with a stick,” he declared.
Mr. Swain said that the marshes on the east coast of the island had burned over all the way from Manchese to the bay of which Manteo is located, and the flames must have driven the mosquitoes before them.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, September 11, 1926
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