Apr 30, 2024
Dr. Diller meets "The prince of jail breakers"
This guy crawled through 5 miles of sewers to break out of Leavenworth Can you imagine crawling through five miles of sewers to break out...
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Apr 29, 2024
BHS class of 1917 as eighth graders
Augsburgers, Bracys, Burkholders, Niswanders, Steiners and many others Members of the Bluffton High School class of 1917 as eighth...
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Apr 20, 2024
Bluffton's 1939 controversy: To dance or not to dance at the BHS Jr.-Sr. banquet
Dancing won the day, but the one board member threatened to resign & two Mennonite churches passed resolutions opposing dancing Name the...
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Apr 7, 2024
A story...if only we could tell our great-grandparents
about the Great American Eclipse of 2024 Believe in coincidences? Ponder this one. Eighty-five years ago this month our Bluffton...
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Apr 6, 2024
85 proms ago the question was: "Dancing or no dancing?"
First time dancing question asked for the junior-senior banquet Here’s an interesting question. Should dancing be permitted at the...
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Mar 27, 2024
The day a major league baseball MVP came to Bluffton
Credit Bluffton College's A.C. Burcky for the win A.C. Burcky, Bluffton College’s long-time coach and athletic director, was always on...
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Mar 25, 2024
They kids lived through the Great Depression
Bluffton High School class of 1933 in the fifth grade These kids who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s. They are members of...
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Mar 21, 2024
85 school years ago in Bluffton
Meet the elementary teachers of the 1938-39 school year Eighty-five Bluffton school years ago, here were the elementary teachers, with...
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Mar 4, 2024
1930s Bluffton Sportsmen's project
Planting walnut seedlings in rural Bluffton In the early 1930s members of the Bluffton Sportsmen’s Club planted walnut tree seedlings on...
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Jan 21, 2024
1900 to 1930 - they also hold BHS diplomas
Here is the list of Bluffton High School graduates from the classes of 1900 to 1930. You will find the graduates from the classes of 1881...
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Jan 17, 2024
Welcome to Bluffton - 1935
Bluffton Lions Club erect "Welcome to Bluffton" sign on South Main Street The date was May 7, 1935. Members of the Bluffton Lions Club...
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Jan 3, 2024
When Pocahontas coal was $7 a ton
1937 advertiser of the week The words of coal today sound as foreign phrases to anyone who grew up before a coal furnace warmed Bluffton...
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Dec 23, 2023
Nothing like a Maytag wringer washer
In 1936 you could buy one on Main Street from C.F. Niswander Prior to the Citizens National Bank expansion, at 116 S. Main St., Bluffton,...
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Dec 21, 2023
90 BHS class plays ago
Senior class of 1933 presents "She Stoops to Conquer" Ninety class plays ago, "She Stoops to Conquer," was presented by the Bluffton High...
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Oct 31, 2023
These guys once ran Bluffton industry
In 1937 Bluffton was a one factory town - Triplett was the factory In 1937 the Triplett Corp. located on Harmon Road was Bluffton’s...
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Sep 27, 2023
Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Male Chorus - 1939
Many familiar faces: Burkholder, Reichenbach, Kohli, Messinger, Basinger, Badertscher, Zuercher, Althaus, Welty and many others Here are...
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Sep 16, 2023
Bluffton's most mysterious places
Why is there a flagstone wall on both sides of the Riley near Harmon Field? Who build it and why? Imagine a mysterious Bluffton location...
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Sep 12, 2023
85 school years ago in Bluffton
Meet your grade school teacher Meet the Bluffton elementary school teachers during the 1938-39 school year. Front from left, Theola...
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Sep 1, 2023
Outstanding in their field - love those Stetson hats
Meet the Bluffton HS Future Farmers of America 1936-37 This photo makes us want to go out and purchase a nice Stetson hat. Meet the...
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Aug 30, 2023
Bluffton's changing rural scene
Farm auctions from 1939, 1946 and 1959 show how we've changed Here are three examples of farm auctions from the decades of the 1930s,...
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