Reminisce is a cooperative effort between The Lima News and the Allen County Museum and Historical Society.
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Reminisce: Recalling 9/11 through front pages
The nation was in need of information when terrorists attacked the country on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.The Lima News tried to do its part...
Reminisce: The Ashton family’s businesses
In his later years, Francis Ashton Sr., “smooth-faced, quite deaf and distinctly English in his pronunciation,” was almost as much of a fixture on...
Reminisce: Ashton family comes to Lima
In early February 1942, as the U.S. struggled to regain its footing in a world forever changed by the attack on Pearl Harbor, 84-year-old...
Reminisce: Forgotten towns of Allen County
After nearly a half century, William Anderson closed the doors of his general store for the final time on May 5, 1954. The store,...
Reminisce: Historical marker showcases Wapakoneta Commercial District’s past, present
WAPAKONETA — The Wapakoneta Historic Commercial District has been included in the National Register of Historic Places for more than 30 years, a status...
Reminisce: Women share letters from home in the Civil War
April brings rain and renewal and the green of spring spreading up from the ground to the tops of the trees.April 1861 also brought...
Reminisce: Peirce focused on children’s welfare
“Social and business status of womenfolk have been altered decidedly in the last half century,” The Lima News opined in 1928.“Whereas in the eighteen...
Reminisce: Lima’s Shakespeare Study Club
Lelia Kelly was born in Muskingum County in 1861, married Army officer Frank M. Bell, graduated from Wooster College, taught in the Lima schools,...
Reminisce: Butler’s ‘rare mental attainments’
Luah Miller Butler “is a woman of rare mental attainments, possessing literary talent of a high order,” William Rusler wrote in his 1921 history...
Reminisce: Sarno’s brought decades of dancing
As 1945 drew to a close, Sarno’s Restaurant in Lima had a problem.“Somebody lost our Vitrolite!,” declared a Dec. 21 ad for the restaurant...