Music Ends 80-Day Sleep

1919

Talking Machine Rouses Woman After Human Voices Fail.

NORWICH, N. Y. — Neighbors, relatives and doctors for eighty days had tried to wake Mrs. Fred Tracey, 55, of Oxford, from her "sleeping sickness," but a talking machine succeeded where human voices had failed.

When, as a last resort, a record was played she became conscious long enough to inquire:

"What was that?"

Then she fell asleep again, but was roused several times after that. Her physician now states she will recover.