Tag: Reminisce

Glistening pearl earrings, bracelets, pins and necklaces arranged in a seashell pattern sat upon sea-blue velvet, catching the attention of passersby. Hartman Jewelry Company, which competed with other retailers in 12 neighboring states, was one of 10 winners of a $50 prize in a 1947 window display contest.

Every Saturday, Henry Hartman cranked the clock outside his jewelry store to reset its 150-pound weight. For 50 years the clock helped people of Wapakoneta keep time, becoming a fixture in the town. Hartman Jewelry Company, the business that it represented, had roots even deeper with its 96 years of service to the community.

It was, by some accounts, one of the largest poured concrete buildings in the United States.

A half century ago, aiming to bring some stability to the county’s occasionally chaotic public transportation system, the Allen County Commissioners approved the creation of a regional transit authority.

From the mid-1940s until the mid-1950s the most popular worker at the Erie passenger station in Lima had a tail.

Smoke billowed from the Minster Milling Company in the early morning hours of Sunday, August 4, 1912. In two hours the mill would be known not only for its flour, but also for being the victim of one of the largest fires in Minster’s history.

When Malcolm McCoy, educator, activist and bringer of smiles, died August 29, 2013, his wife of 55 years told the Lima News she wouldn’t remember him through a veil of tears.

The Invisible Empire could be seen all over Ohio in the 1920s, rallying in their robed and hooded thousands at Indian Lake on the Fourth of July or gathering in their hundreds for initiation ceremonies beneath fiery crosses in Perry Township farm fields and on the Pioneer Picnic Grounds in Elida.

When he left his job at the Lima Locomotive Works on Friday, he was, the Lima Republican-Gazette wrote on Sunday, May 18, 1924, “plain old James H. Smith.” By Sunday, according to the Gazette, he was “Sir James Henry Smith,” the main character in a real-life fairy tale.

Fire bells rang out over New Bremen streets as people lined up their cars decorated in vegetable and grain products. The New Bremen parade immediately dispersed as participants and onlookers rushed to the accommodation barn of St. Paul’s church. After they put out the flames, the parade commenced. Not even a fire diminished the crowd’s enthusiasm for the New Bremen Farmers Picnic in 1920.