Tag: Reminisce

In the final hours of the final day of his life, Washington Clark wrote a last letter to his wife in Ohio.

On a chilly Friday morning 90 years ago this Friday, Lima celebrated the informal end of 13 years of Prohibition with a sip of 3.2 percent lager beer brewed in Wapakoneta.

Helen Wemmer was born into one prominent Lima family, was about to marry into another and, seemingly, devoted much of her time in the weeks preceding her April 11, 1917, wedding being elaborately entertained by friends.

A stack of yellowing index cards two inches high catalog Bertha R. Beam’s donations to the Allen County Museum. From programs for the Ziegfeld follies to a net used to keep flies off horses, Beam’s donations were many and various.

In late October 1949, home economist Virginia Daubert shared the stage at Memorial Hall with Lima furniture dealer Joe Early as she demonstrated the advantages to be gained by owning Norge appliances, which were available in Early’s store at 522 W. Market St.

Long before Google, there was Gallagher.

Willie D. Thompson was about 6 years old in 1946 when her family arrived in Lima from the small town of Cruger in the heart of Mississippi to join her grandfather, who, disenchanted with life as a sharecropper in the South, had come north to work at Ohio Steel.

On New Year’s Day 1942, a little more than three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, The Lima News wrapped up the momentous year just past and pondered the uncertain year ahead.

All that remains of the village of Rumley straddles Loramie Creek along Hardin-Wapak Road in the open fields of northern Shelby County, a few miles northwest of Anna. On the north side of the creek is a brick schoolhouse, a quarter mile to the south is a white church.

WAPAKONETA — Auglaize County turned 100 in 1948, and birthday greetings rolled in.