Window to the Past
February 22, 2010Local News
Received the following from Jane (Gerdeman) Fairfax.Marcus Bossler was a stone mason in Dayton. He engaged a local architect to design his 30 room mansion Continue »
Window to the Past
February 22, 2010Local News
Received the following from Jane (Gerdeman) Fairfax.
Marcus Bossler was a stone mason in Dayton. He engaged a local architect to design his 30 room mansion Continue »
Window to the Past
January 17, 2010Local News
Ladies Basket
Ball Teams
The Ladies Basket Ball teams of the Mammoth rink will make their first public appearance tonight, promptly at 9o’clock. Admission 10 cents to Continue »
Old Time News
December 21, 2009Local News
Santa Worship at
Manual Training Room
Santa Claus is receiving some valuable assistance at the Jefferson school at the present time.
A number of the pupils of the Continue »
Old Delphos news
November 23, 2009Local News
Local Young Ladies Give Program Monday
The Holdgreve Sisters entertained the members of the Columbus Grove Commercial Club Monday evening in professional manner. Mrs. Rose Fast Continue »
Window to the Past
October 19, 2009Local News
Eagles Agency Finds
Work for 15
Men Already
The employment agency which the local Aerie of Eagles are conducting is getting good results. This was started a week Continue »
Window to the Past
September 21, 2009Local News
Delphos Honey
Industry
Improvement
A substantial improvement in the Delphos honey industry is being made at the home of Carl Landwehr, East Second street.
A large honey house is Continue »
Window to the Past
August 24, 2009Local News
Streets Covered
with Ice Boulders
Columbus, Ohio, was visited by probably the most disastrous hailstorm in its history.
The damage to crops and buildings in this vicinity is Continue »
Window to the Past
July 20, 2009Local News
Youngest Old Man
in Delphos
The youngest old man in Delphos is probably Anton Gemke, West Second Street.
Mr. Gemke was just 94 years of age Wednesday.
Within the Continue »
Window to the Past
June 22, 2009Local News
Train Damages
Truckload of
“Wet” Goods
A large truck of alcohol was hit Sunday by a Pennsylvania train near Ft. Wayne, Ind. The truck was headed towards Ft. Continue »
Old Time News
May 18, 2009Local News
Strange case of
Nickel Plate
Engineer Brothers
An account of the death of a Nickel Plate engineer who was well known in Delphos was carried in the Wednesday Continue »
Window to the Past
April 20, 2009Local News
Section Ten Red Men
An important meeting of Section Ten Council No. 292, National Union, was held at Red Men’s hall, Tuesday evening, when a class Continue »
Window to the Past
January 19, 2009Local News
Delphos Herald, Aug. 13, 1872
(First Reunion of 118th Regiment, 7 years after end of Civil War.)
At a meeting of delegates appointed to take into consideration Continue »
Window to the Past
December 22, 2008Local News
Canal Locks Fire
The southeast gate of Miami and Erie canal lock No. 11, south of town, was burned off and surrounding lock timbers damaged to Continue »
Miscellaneous old news
November 17, 2008Local News
Jefferson School Will
Stop Fast Train Here
Arrangements have been completed by Jefferson school authorities to take the Jefferson orchestra to Madison next week.
The Manhattan Limited, fast Continue »
Windows to the Past
October 20, 2008Local News
Notice
To obtain a locker plant in Delphos it is necessary under present government regulation that 60 percent of the patrons are producers.
Payment of a year’s Continue »
Window to the Past
August 18, 2008Local News
B. & O. Locomotives Are Dolled Up
Are railway locomotives to follow the example of the automobile industry in the matter of style and color? Will Continue »
Windows to the Past
July 21, 2008Local News
Honest Indians
Many curious instances of the manner in which the honesty of the Indian manifests itself are cited in the north country of the Canadian Continue »
Old Delphos News
June 23, 2008Local News
City council passes “chain gang”
ordinance
Council met in regular session Tuesday evening and the minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. On account Continue »
Lesser known gas saving ideas and more
June 2, 2008Local News
I have owned an electric bicycle for about three years now. Actually, I bought a new Raleigh ladies bike and installed a kit. The kit Continue »
Window to the Past
May 19, 2008Local News
A Kink in Canal Street
For many years, in fact for so long that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, there has existed Continue »
Window to the Past
April 21, 2008Local News
Orville Wright made the two greatest aeroplane flights ever made publicly in this country, when, during a test at Fort Myers, he remained in the Continue »
Windows to the Past
March 17, 2008Local News
Council met Tuesday evening and a petition was presented, praying for the paving of Main Street from the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne and Chicago railroad track Continue »
Black History in Delphos and area
February 18, 2008Local News
Colored Woman Forgot to
Take Baby With Her
Tuesday night, two colored women got off the midnight interurban car and after asking some directions went to the Continue »
Fires in old Delphos and more news
January 21, 2008Local News
Four Fires in One Week
The fire boys are beginning to think that it is not exactly a good thing to be a member of the Continue »
Window to the Past
December 17, 2007Local News
Steinle Brewery To Make
“Delphos” Beverage
O.J. Steinle, manager of the Delphos Brewing & Ice company, for many years brewers, and ice manufacturers, states that after May Continue »
Window to the past
December 3, 2007Local News
The Delphos Turbine
Mr. John Ross of Delphos, patentee of the “Delphos Turbine,” water wheel, who is also general agent and hydraulic engineer for the Delphos Continue »
Windows to the Past
November 19, 2007Local News
Perfects Engine
Burning Kerosene
The following item taken from the Ohio State Journal, pertains to a former Delphos man, Mr. C. Bruce Hardman. He was formerly connected Continue »
Window To The Past
October 22, 2007Local News
Windmills and Automobiles
Spread all over the counties will be found windmills and old-fashioned watermills, often picturesque, but of no commercial value. If these power stations Continue »
Stories from 1900s relay interesting history of Delphos
September 24, 2007Local News
Rural Mail Routes Begin
Mail Box Controversy.
Last spring the Delphos Hardware Company, J.T. Vonderembse King Bro’s and Jettinghoff Bro’s had prepared two hundred mail boxes, neat Continue »
Window to the Past
August 20, 2007Local News
Public Pulse For Traction Line
About two months ago, W.F. Numan of the Lima Board of Trade was in Delphos feeling about to see what the Continue »
Window to the Past
July 30, 2007Local News
Boys Played “Hookey”
Monday evening about 7 o’clock the tolling of the fire bell announced that a child was lost, and quite a number of people Continue »
Window to the Past
May 21, 2007Local News
Fat engineers are barred
Firemen on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have suddenly become greatly interested in looking up diets for people who wish to reduce.
It’s Continue »
Window to the Past
April 30, 2007Local News
Henry Rode Awarded
the ‘Croix De Guerre’
for Bravery Under Fire
Henry Rode, one of the first to be summoned to serve abroad, has been honored for gallantry Continue »
Window to the Past
April 23, 2007Local News
Airplanes Darting Around
Like Flies in the Sky
Jesse Brown writes his mother from “somewhere in France.”
My dear Mother:
On this beautiful Sunday (May 26, 1918) afternoon, I Continue »
Window to the Past
March 5, 2007Local News
Jan. 12, 1918
Statewide Blizzard
This storm was compared to the New Years Blizzard of 1864 and was not matched until the Blizzard of 1978. The Blizzard Continue »
Window to the Past
February 26, 2007Local News
June 23, 1882:
Floods killed 28 people at Xenia on May 12th and two days later, on May 14, 1886, Ohio’s deadliest tornado outbreak of the Continue »
Window to the Past
February 19, 2007Local News
Joel and Sarah (Williams) Wilcox moved from Madison County, Ohio, to Putnam County in the spring of 1827. They moved temporarily into a bark-covered Indian Continue »
Window to the Past
January 12, 2007Local News
Folk remedies and recipes from an 1884 book titled “Three Meals A Day”.