Mankato High School - Otaknam Yearbook (Mankato, MN)

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W c4139 ll lllll fl ill' ll :LX IIA IPA!! WELD a curious story. The governor of lNlinnesota set aside a day for fasting and prayer and after that day the grasshoppers steadily decreased and the reader van decide for himself whether the prayers of the people had any influence in ending the g.rrasshopper siege. On November 1, 1877 the only earthquake ever Felt in Blue Earth county occurred. lieginning with the year 1880 one reads of the fon,nding.r of many of the present business establisliments in Mankato. That year the first issue of the Mankato Daily Free Press was published. The general depression over the United States in the year 1897 was also felt at Mankato and that year is l'9ll1CIll- hered for its many business failures and great fire losses ill our town. One ol' the rnost famous floods in this vicinity was that in 1881. The huge snowfall came in February of that year, and in April the water was up as far as Second street in some places. The next twenty-five years of our town are more or less familiar to most, oi' us. One could go on forever relating interesting facts about Mankato, hut our space here is limited, so we have endeavored to present only a brief onitline of thc early history of the town. Last Steamboat To Come To Mankato Page Thirteen

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