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Early in the summer of 1873 the homesteading farmer in southern Minnesota had good land beneath his feet, credit when he needed it, and a market for all the grain his family could produce. Before him—as far as the eye could see—was the wheat that would guarantee his future. Riding the early June winds were hordes of Rocky Mountain locusts, swirling and gnawing their way east through the tender grasses, stripping the countryside. The farmer and his family could do little but watch as the grasshoppers dropped into their fields and demolished the waving stalks of wheat. When the swarm moved on, the family was left with only the hope that they could survive the winter to plant again in the spring. They weren’t alone in their troubles. Throughout the state newspapers reported swarms of locusts so large that they eclipsed the sun. The roar of their frenzied feeding sounded like a prairie fire. From Rock, Pipestone, Lincoln, Redwood, Renville, Brown, Watonwan, Blue Earth, and Faribault counties, farmers reported losses totaling millions of dollars that summer. What had been a bad dream for the farmers in 1873 became a nightmare in 1874. The grasshoppers had done more than ruin crops, they had laid eggs. The following spring, black clouds of young hoppers erupted in field after field in search of food, and within days Minnesota was again under siege. The locusts consumed crops as far north as Becker and Aitkin counties and as far east as the Mississippi River. Pluck, determination, and charity carried many Minnesota farming families through the next three winters. With each spring thaw came hope, and with each planting came disaster. As grasshopper swarms crossed and recrossed the state in search of new feeding grounds, the crisis made inroads into the mainstream economy. Local businesses extended credit to farmers until the money ran out, while food prices soared. In 1876 newly elected Governor John S. Pillsbury encouraged Minnesotans to do everything they could think of to fight the pests, and listened patiently while one person after another offered solutions. A teacher from New Ulm, Gustav Heydrich, proposed a horse driven machine that would sweep grasshoppers into a bin and then crush them under the machine’s heavy wheels. A Willmar citizen, Andrew Robbins, invented a tar-filled metal pan that would scoop up and trap grasshoppers as the pan was dragged across a field. Several hundred of the inexpensive “hopperdozers� were put into operation. In 1877 the town of Le Sueur advertised a bounty of 20 cents a quart for dead grasshoppers; but, the number caught exceeded the town’s coffers, so the bounty was reduced to one dollar a bushel. Still the grasshoppers came. A relief committee, chaired by prominent St. Paul politician Henry M. Rice, distributed many thousands of dollars across the state feeding and clothing 6,000 people during the winter of 1876 and appropriating $75,000 in 1877 for buying seed grain. Help also came from the National Grange, which collected $11,000 to spread among the stricken families in Minnesota and in other states. In the the spring of 1877, the next crop of locusts hatched and Minnesotans prepared for another year of disaster. But instead of eating their way through the state, the grasshoppers lifted their wings and rode the wind across the border. The ordeal was over but the grasshopper plague was only one of a series of misfortunes that hit Minnesotans in the years after the Civil War. Droughts, floods, hailstorms, crop disease. and insects plagued the wheat fields all through the 1870s.

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● On Feb. 25, 1873, Enrico Caruso, the greatest tenor who ever lived, is born. After making New York's Metropolitan Opera his home base in 1904, Caruso recorded scores of arias of three- and four-minutes in length -the longest duration that could fit on a 78 rpm record.

● On Feb. 23, 1958, five-time Formula One champion Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina is kidnapped in Cuba by a group of Fidel Castro's rebels. He was released unharmed several hours after the Cuba Grand Prix.

● On Feb. 26, 1919, more than 800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon is established as a national park. The Grand Canyon is the product of millions of years of excavation by the mighty Colorado River. The chasm is exceptionally deep -- dropping more than a mile into the earth -- and is 15 miles across at its widest point.

● On Feb. 22, 1990, the Best New Artist Grammy is awarded to Milli Vanilli. Months later, German recordproducer Frank Farian revealed that he had put the names and faces of the talentless Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan on the dance records he was creating using real musicians. Four days later, Milli Vanilli's Grammy award was withdrawn.

● On March 4, 1966, a John Lennon quotation that was ignored in England sets off a media frenzy in America: "We're more popular than Jesus now." Bible Belt disc jockeys declared Lennon's remarks blasphemous and vowed an eternal ban on all Beatles music, past, present and future.

● On Feb. 21, 1927, humorist Erma Bombeck is born in Dayton, Ohio. Her first book, "At Wit's End" (1967), comprised a collection of her columns. Among her many other popular books were "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank" (1976) and "If Life Is a Bowl Of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" (1978).

● On March 3, 1887, Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6-yearold Helen Keller, who lost her sight and hearing after a severe illness at the age of 19 months. Under Sullivan's tutelage, Keller flourished, eventually graduating from college and becoming an international lecturer and activist.

● On March 5, 1977, the Dial-a-President radio program, featuring President Jimmy Carter and CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite, airs for the first time. Carter answered calls from all over the country from his desk in the Oval Office. Some 9 million calls flooded the CBS radio studio during the two-hour broadcast.

● On Feb. 24, 1969, after a North Vietnamese mortar shell rocks their Douglas AC-47 gunship, Airman First Class John L. Levitow throws himself on an activated flare and tosses it out of the aircraft just before it ignites. For saving his fellow crewmembers and the gunship, Airman Levitow was awarded the Medal of Honor.

● On March 2, 1904, Theodor Geisel, better known to the world as Dr. Seuss, is born in Springfield, Mass. Geisel's first book, "And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street," was rejected by more than two dozen publishers before making it into print in 1937. ● On March 1, 1932, Charles Lindbergh III, the 20-month-old son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family's new mansion in Hopewell, N.J. Days later the baby's lifeless body was discovered near the Lindbergh home.

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Things that go bump in the night also go bump in the daylight. Every odd sound you hear in your home is not made by a spirit, but some of them might be. There is a reason why things seem to happen at night. During the day you are occupied. If you hear a thump or the light comes on, you probably won’t pay attention to it. If those same things happen at night when the house is quiet, you will pay attention and your attention is what the spirits are looking for. Imagine sitting in your home late at night when you hear a sound that doesn’t make sense to you. A chair moves in the kitchen; there’s a knock on the wall; a creak on the floor; walking on the stairs. These are all easy sounds for a spirit to make in hopes of getting our attention. That said, when you hear one of these sounds, don’t immediately jump to the conclusion it’s a spirit. Most of the time it won’t be. See if you can figure out what else might be making the sound. Is it cold outside and your house is contracting? Do you have a pet that may have run up or down the stairs? Perhaps that same pet pushed the chair in the kitchen.

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