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The Western Democrat
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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Appalling reports from Sweden indicate that 300,000 people in Norrland are on the verge of starvation due to three years of bad crops, with last year's total failure. They are eating bread made from straw and tree bark, now exhausted, leading to deaths in huts. Private accounts suggest the calamity is worse than published.
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"Three hundred thousand hard-worked, patient Swedes are starving in Norrland. Their crops for three years have been bad; last year they were an utter failure; and now even their miserable bread, made of straw and the bark of trees, has given out. They sit in their cheerless huts and die. My private advices from Scandinavia represent this calamity as even worse than the published accounts."
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Norrland, Sweden
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three hundred thousand people starving or dying from famine
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Three hundred thousand Swedes in Norrland are starving after three years of bad crops, with last year's utter failure. They have exhausted supplies of bread made from straw and tree bark and are dying in their huts. Private advices indicate the calamity is worse than published accounts.