Tag: Reminisce

In late October 1960, during the final weeks of the heated and historic presidential race between Republican Richard M. Nixon and Democrat John F. Kennedy, it appeared likely Lima would land visits from both candidates.

LIMA — A dozen men served as presidents of the United States between 1869 and 1923 and seven of them were born in Ohio. An eighth president, William Henry Harrison, who parlayed fame fighting Indians in the old Northwest Territory into the presidency and died just 31 days into his term in 1841, was born in Virginia but was living in Ohio at the time he was elected.

LIMA — Matthew Winkler was the focus of national and international attention as Christmas Day approached in 1970. Stories about him appeared in newspapers...

LIMA — Matthew Winkler was the focus of national and international attention as Christmas Day approached in 1970. Stories about him appeared in newspapers in the U.S., Canada and England, and such media heavyweights as Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal came calling. Walter Cronkite featured his story on the CBS evening news.

LIMA — For John H. Keller, the question wasn’t why for decades he bothered to participate in Lima Council meetings with such regularity that...

WAPAKONETA — Three years removed and some 240,000 miles distant from the moment he made history, the first man to set foot on the...

In late October of 1917, while reports of death on a monstrous scale in World War I dominated the front pages of Lima’s newspapers,...

Ernie Robison found part of William Siegel’s gold pocket watch in the spring of 1933, some 29 years after an explosion at a nitroglycerin...

The National Register of Historic Places is one of the most prestigious lists of historic sites in the United States. Twenty-six of these entries...

Across the country, as midnight neared on Friday, Jan. 16, 1920, Americans either gathered to give thanks in prayer for Prohibition, which went into...