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Reminisce is a cooperative effort between The Lima News and the Allen County Museum and Historical Society.

Reminisce: Auglaize County’s first woman to hold office

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“Helen Jacobs New Auglaize Court Clerk,” announced The Lima Morning Star and Republican Gazette. “County’s First Woman to Hold Office Succeeds Robert C. Howell.” In a special meeting, county commissioners Frank Springer, George Sheipline and Emil Thieman unanimously elected Helen Louella Jacobs to be the Auglaize County clerk of courts on August 5, 1931.

Reminisce: Lima’s 1942 baseball season had big attractions

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Following a feel-good February 1942 meeting of the owners of the six teams in the Ohio State League, Lima News sports editor Bill Snypp was confident the class D minor league would survive to play ball that season despite the specter of World War II.

Reminisce: Stories about the Lima Giants outside baseball

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Wilkie Collins and Herman Haithcock were railroad baggage masters; Webb Harrison was a janitor and brothers Fred and Andy Fountain operated a saloon. Ike Boone was a saloonkeeper and unsuccessful boxer while Paul Cumberland worked as a porter at the Norval Hotel.

Reminisce: Lima hearts hurt by ‘vinegar’ valentines

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As Valentine’s Day approached in 1892, the Lima Daily Times printed an article praising the trend toward a “higher class of work” in Valentine’s Day cards. The cards, the newspaper added, “are destined to take the place of the horrible red, blue and green affairs that have been familiar objects for a quarter of a century or more.”

Reminisce: Lima celebrates Emancipation Day

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It was, the Lima Morning Star & Republican-Gazette wrote, a “holiday of colored residents at Hover Park given over to fun, frolic and feasting with good music and large attendance.”

Reminisce: Well-shooting business boomed for Hercules Torpedo in 1888

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In the spring of 1889, the city editor of the Lima Daily Times journeyed to the semi-secluded home of one of Lima’s newest industries, describing a route “along the banks of the meandering Swinona (Hog Creek),” past the cemetery, the land of Benjamin C. Faurot and the residence of James McBeth to an area southwest of the city in Shawnee Township.

Reminisce: Decade of the Lima Car Works

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In the summer of 1889 optimism about Lima’s future flowed as freely as the oil discovered four years earlier on the banks of the Ottawa River and the city, which would win renown for producing steam locomotives, seemed in the eyes of some on the verge of becoming a manufacturer of the rail cars those locomotives hauled.

Reminisce: Gene Wollenhaupt — a musician of all sorts

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In 1952, Gene Wollenhaupt, fresh out of high school, joined the musician’s union because, he told the Lima News in August 2010, “If you were a musician of any sort, you belonged to the union.”

Reminisce: Brown killed in the line of duty

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It’s been 50 years since Patrolman William F. “Bill” Brown of the Lima Police Department offered his life in service of his community.

Reminisce: Lima streets ‘lively with sleighs’

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Winters just weren’t the old bone-chilling, snow-covered wonders of yore, the Allen County Democrat lamented a century and a half ago.