Reminisce
The Snyder case: A 1948 murder, Part 1 of 2
LIMA — In late August 1948, Lima was in the clammy grip of a heat wave, polio was an ever-present fear and steam-powered locomotives still rumbled through the city.
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- The Lubetsky brothers and local cigars
- Updated: May 08, 2013 - 9:02 am
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Everything would be okay, R.O. Brandenberg assured the no doubt nervous employees of Lima’s Odin Cigar factory on March 3, 1929.
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- May Day in Bluffton
- Posted: May 01, 2013
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BLUFFTON — Bluffton University has long held a May Day celebration, steeped in tradition.
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- Celebrating 100 years: The Delphian Club
- Updated: April 24, 2013 - 3:55 pm
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LIMA — The club’s bylaws include this phrase: “The object of this club shall be general study with an aim to cultivate the art of conversation.”
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- Remembering Cairo's place in history
- Posted: April 17, 2013
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CAIRO — The Cincinnatian thundered through Cairo for the final time in late April 1971. A half century earlier the last passengers hopped off the interurban at Cairo Station. And, although the Lincoln Highway remains, the traffic that made crossing it an adventure now barrels down four-lane U.S. 30 a mile to the south.
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- Gray Knisley: Quintessential newspaperman
- Posted: April 10, 2013
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LIMA — Gray Knisely went eye-to-eye with “the Viper,” the man who shot the sheriff, and interviewed “Titania,” who defended striptease as “a natural product of this sophisticated age.” He talked to bootleggers and blondes, and once interviewed a man who could blow smoke out of his ears.
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- In the hunt: Easter eggs
- Posted: April 03, 2013
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LIMA — Look closely. Do you know anyone?
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- A flood for the ages: 100-year anniversary
- Posted: March 27, 2013
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LIMA — It began, like many early spring days in Ohio, with a cold rain falling on the dirty remains of the just-passed winter. But this rain lasted much longer than most. According to the newspapers, it rained for five days — an “incessant” rain for the first two days — and it leached the color out of Easter Sunday 1913, the day it started.
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- Pioneer women: A daily struggle
- Updated: March 20, 2013 - 11:18 am
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LIMA — When this area was still known as the Great Black Swamp, people chose to settle here and tame it best they could.
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- Miss Georgie: Building Lima’s libraries
- Posted: March 13, 2013
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LIMA — Georgie G. McAfee started her life in Kentucky, sharpened her skills in Indiana but really came into her own in Ohio.
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- Sweet Adelines: A look back
- Posted: March 06, 2013
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LIMA — The ladies just couldn’t be left out.
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- Family tradition: Napier women involved in community
- Posted: February 27, 2013
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LIMA — The Napier women can be relied upon to do what's necessary.
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- Invested: Refinery manager took time for social causes
- Posted: February 20, 2013
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LIMA - William W. Grimes arrived in Lima to something less than a cordial welcome — at least from real estate agents — in 1959. He left to a standing ovation in 1985.
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- Born a slave: One woman shares her family's story
- Updated: February 13, 2013 - 11:14 am
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LIMA — Kizzie Jane McKimm lived quietly, her 1937 obit and few newspaper clippings pointing to involvement in her church, St. Paul AME. But as an elderly woman — in fact, just a few months before her death — she spoke up about her background.
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- John Lillie: Lima's second African-American policeman
- Posted: February 06, 2013
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LIMA — The 52-year-old barber died as he prepared to leave his West High Street home for work on a late-spring day in 1904.
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- The Maire family: The story behind the name, final part
- Posted: January 30, 2013
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LIMA — The Maire family — siblings Edward, Frank, Louisa and Frances — had a new addition. Frank Maire married Pearl Grosjean in 1912, in a bit of surprise news as the siblings were extremely close and appeared happy with their current lifestyle of living together.
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- The Maire family: The story behind the name, part 2
- Posted: January 23, 2013
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LIMA — The Maire family — Edward, Frank, Louisa and Frances — were progressing quite nicely in this area. The brothers had found enough oil and gas in the fields around Lima to bolster the family’s financial standing, and the sisters were working on social obligations of their own.
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- The Maire family: The story behind the name, part 1
- Updated: January 16, 2013 - 12:33 pm
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LIMA — For those dreaming big, the Maire family offers inspiration.
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- A glance back in time: Lima Republican-Gazette
- Updated: January 09, 2013 - 12:20 pm
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LIMA — Last year, an anonymous reader dropped off a bundle of old newspapers at this office. The bundle contained Lima Republican-Gazette editions from 1918 to 1925. A look through the old news proved entertaining. Below are a few items of interest.
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- Conflagration: The Milner burns
- Updated: January 02, 2013 - 7:00 pm
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LIMA — Sixteen years after the Allen County Courthouse burned, the block was again ablaze.
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- Photos from our readers
- Updated: December 26, 2012 - 6:41 am
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LIMA — You never know what you'll find, but sometimes you have to slow down.
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- Obeying God’s vision: Businessman Stanley Tam
- Posted: December 19, 2012
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LIMA — He felt a tug of conscience, and before you know it, he was living out his beliefs.
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- Obeying God’s vision: Businessman Stanley Tam
- Updated: December 12, 2012 - 11:59 am
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LIMA — Even if you don’t know him, you know of him.
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- Lining up for a bargain at Rink’s
- Updated: December 05, 2012 - 8:16 am
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LIMA — Lima loves a bargain.
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- Designing the Michael Fountain
- Updated: November 28, 2012 - 11:40 am
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LIMA — Faurot Park once again has a water feature for children, but its original fountain dates to the 1920s.
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- A poem for the ages
- Posted: November 21, 2012
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LIMA — It’s a poem that many of us know as a song — and a Christmas song, at that.
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- The Green Lantern: An early attempt to modernize gas stations
- Posted: November 14, 2012
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LIMA — Ford’s automobiles opened up the roads for free-spirited travel, so it only follows that gas stations would try to serve those new customers in the best way they could.
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- Promoting the arts: Esther Damaris Toy
- Posted: November 07, 2012
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LIMA — The name Esther Damaris Toy holds meaning for those who remember her.
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- Spook-o-rama: Halloween from yesteryear
- Updated: October 31, 2012 - 11:54 am
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LIMA — These photos were published around Halloween from 1957 to 1961 in the Lima newspapers. Enjoy the look back at costumes from yesteryear.
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- Playing to the crowd: Nixon’s 1960 Lima stop
- Posted: October 24, 2012
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LIMA — Everything about it speaks to a different era — except that Lima has long supported the Republican party.
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- Fresh from the cow: Farmers' Equity Union Creamery Co.
- Updated: October 17, 2012 - 11:17 am
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L IMA — Dairymen once would bring their goods to market, sell them, and go home. By the 1920s, Lima’s farmers had grasped hold of the unionization idea that was going around the country and started the Farmers’ Equity Union Creamery Co.
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- A feathered problem
- Posted: October 10, 2012
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L IMA — Some problems never really go away.
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- Coaxing cauliflower: Developing flavor in the sometimes disrespected vegetable
- Posted: October 08, 2012
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You consider yourself a vegetable aficionado, buying Brussels sprouts by the stalk, munching beets of every stripe and crunching roasted kale chips with abandon.
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- The road to city hall
- Posted: October 03, 2012
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LIMA — With industrial progress came the need for proper city departments.
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- The day the courthouse burned
- Posted: September 26, 2012
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LIMA — It was an average winter day, but it turned out to be much more unusual than anyone would have thought.
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- An unresolved murder-suicide
- Posted: September 19, 2012
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LIMA — In 1897, J. Hayes Baker married Minnie Smith and set up a household at the corner of Jameson Avenue and West Wayne Street. He started running the Waldo Hotel bar downtown.
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- Just Al: Frueh made it big but stayed humble
- Posted: September 12, 2012
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LIMA — He started doodling in class, honed his art in newspapers, and made a name for himself in The New Yorker.
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- The Sealts ‘castle’: Grocer built fine country home
- Posted: September 05, 2012
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LIMA — James M. Sealts started in the wholesale grocery business and would continue in that vein his entire life.
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- Lima's early reservoirs, final part
- Updated: August 29, 2012 - 4:58 pm
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LIMA — Pained with population growth and a need for a modern water distribution system, Lima unveiled its first reservoir in 1887.
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- Lima’s reservoirs: How they began
- Posted: August 22, 2012
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LIMA — We take water for granted today, even with the cry to conserve it from the environmentalists at its loudest.
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- The Holleran Hotel
- Updated: August 15, 2012 - 12:18 pm
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LIMA — When Bernard “Bernie” Halloran was being raised on the north side and eventually raised up Lima to be a top spot in baseball, his uncle was busy on the south side.
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- Bernie Halloran, Lima’s baseball backer
- Posted: August 08, 2012
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LIMA — When Bernie Halloran died, Lou Gehrig sent his condolences.
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- The Blue Circle: Jukebox, bands entertained
- Posted: August 01, 2012
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LIMA — Today, no trace remains. But in the 1930s, a little roadhouse called the Blue Circle started entertaining area citizens.
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