On This Date in Minnesota History: June 19

June 19, 1913 – Miss Ida Nyhus, clerk in the W. G. Schroeder Store, Bemidji, discovered a big black tarantula in a bunch of bananas this afternoon. The animal was captured after no little excitement, and killed.

The Bemidji Daily Pioneer; “Finds Big Tarantula”; June 20, 1913; p. 1.

Black Tarantula

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