100 years ago today in Bluffton
• News about a successful boys' basketball team • A new superintendent for the electric and water plant • Lake Street on deck; pet...
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Washington never slept here
but Dillinger robbed our bank
and Elvis stopped for gas
- Mar 13
- 1 min
One of Ruby Beery Murray's first, first grade classes
It's 1928. Herbert Hoover is elected president president. Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie. The Winter Olympics take place in St....
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- Feb 11
- 1 min
Liquor down the drain
Jan. 5, 1928 – Bluffton council watches former Mayor Hauenstein From the Jan. 5, 1928, Bluffton News comes this interesting front page...
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- Feb 1
- 1 min
99 Bluffton HS senior class plays ago
A cast with lots of familiar last names... Geiger, Steiner, Yoakam, Niswander and others It's the 1923-24 school year. • Calvin Coolidge...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 2 min
Walking Main Street on a summer day in the 1920s
A photo certainly deserving a thousand words; we've provided 500 Here’s a summer day in downtown Bluffton in the early-to-mid-1920s. As...
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- Oct 4, 2022
- 1 min
100 graduation classes ago at Bluffton College
Here's the class of 1922 on the Ropp Hall steps with their class sponsors Meet members of the century graduating class at Bluffton...
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- Sep 12, 2022
- 2 min
No one swallowed this spider that visited Bluffton in 1927
Banana spider probably hopped a ride from Toledo on the Western Ohio Railway Can you imagine the supper table conversation in Bluffton...
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- Sep 9, 2022
- 2 min
The day 500 vehicles an hour passed through Bluffton
On Labor Day 1927 - thanks to the Dixie Highway Imagine 500 vehicles in one hour traveling down Main Street Bluffton. That’s eight per...
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- Sep 5, 2022
- 1 min
1927 Bluffton first graders
Became members of the 1938 graduating class at BHS Here is the Bluffton High School class of 1938 as first graders in 1927. Ruby Murray...
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- Aug 12, 2022
- 5 min
100 years ago where Bluffton learned to swim
Today's Herrmann's Quarry still exists but you wouldn't know it was there Ever hear of “Herrmann’s Quarry”? Probably not. That’s because...
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- Jul 15, 2022
- 3 min
The Invisible Empire was visible in Bluffton in 1927
The question, “Did the Ku Klux Klan exist in Bluffton in the 1920s?” may result in a “what!?” response from residents today. You may...
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