

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...
Apr 30, 2024
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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...
Apr 29, 2024
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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...
Apr 20, 2024
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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...
Apr 7, 2024
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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...
Apr 6, 2024
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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...
Mar 27, 2024
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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...
Mar 25, 2024
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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...
Mar 21, 2024
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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...
Mar 4, 2024
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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...
Jan 21, 2024
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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...
Jan 17, 2024
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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...
Jan 3, 2024
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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,...
Dec 23, 2023
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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...
Dec 21, 2023
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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...
Oct 31, 2023
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Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Male Chorus - 1939
Many familiar faces: Burkholder, Reichenbach, Kohli, Messinger, Basinger, Badertscher, Zuercher, Althaus, Welty and many others Here are...
Sep 27, 2023
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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...
Sep 16, 2023
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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...
Sep 12, 2023
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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...
Sep 2, 2023
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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,...
Aug 30, 2023
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