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A newspaper diary of a plague of grasshoppers

By Rhonda Chalfant Contributing Columnist
Posted 8/22/23

On June 4, 1873, the Sedalia Democrat reprinted a dispatch from Austin, Texas, to the St. Louis Republican. The item noted that “innumerable numbers” of grasshoppers had appeared in Texas, eating vegetation and “destroying the corn, consuming it down to a level with the ground.”

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