A 1922 article in the Reading Eagle, on the second ever gassing
in Nevada, advises cyanide gas smells like peach leaves

"He was gone, leaving Winston holding the scrap of paper, which this time there was no need to conceal. Nevertheless he carefully memorized what was written on it, and some hours later dropped it into the memory hole along with a mass of other papers." - 1984 by George Orwell, chapter 14
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