Tag: Reminisce

LIMA — On the northeast corner of Market and Metcalf streets, where the Maire family home had stood since late in the 19th century,...

LIMA — Albertus R. Krebs knew something about weddings.By the time he died in July 1888, Krebs, who was married three times himself, had...

LIMA — On Aug. 23, 1931, with the country mired in the Great Depression, Lima’s city Manager Fred C. Becker issued a plea for...

LIMA — After more than three decades operating a women’s ready-to-wear shop at 128 W. Market St., Elsie Flammer decided it was time to...

LIMA — Paul C. Jacobs longed to be a playwright and found some success in the early 20th century writing adventure stories for magazines...

LIMA — Not long after declining health forced him to retire in the spring of 1941, Dr. John Bayliff estimated that, in the half...

LIMA — As knots of people gathered along West Market Street to watch, the 1902 version of the future of inter-city transportation made its...

LIMA — On a late spring day in 1918 the city started the process of razing and replacing the South Main Street bridge over...

CRIDERSVILLE — The sound of the relentless spring wind was drowned out only by the huffing and hissing of passing steam engines on the...

With a firm belief in divine healing and absolutely no faith in physicians, the Lima couple fervently prayed as their infant son slowly died.The...