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100+ year-old Bluffton Christmas card

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 24, 2015 - 6:42pm

"Peace, happiness and content to thee and thine." This Christmas card was mailed to Bertha Althaus, Bluffton, Ohio, from her brother, Andrew of Toledo. We can't read the postmark date, but Bertha was married in 1899, and after that was Bertha Hahn. For the address side of the card, click here and note that there's no street address and no zip code required on this one cent post card.

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The Icon offers a modern version of a familiar story

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 24, 2015 - 5:32pm

In the seventh year in the reign of Obama, legislation passed that all U.S. citizens be counted in the county where their ancestors had settled. This unusual census was when Kasich was governor of Ohio and Jordan was fourth district representative.

Jose from Lebanon, Ohio, with his young housekeeper, Maria, who was nine-month’s pregnant with someone else’s child, and who Jose had intended to marry, drove to Bluffton in Jose’s 1996 Mercury Cougar. This was because Jose was a great-great-great-grandson of Swiss immigrant, Jesse Zurflugh, in Richland Township.

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Enjoy the best Bluffton Christmas lights from your armchair

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 24, 2015 - 5:18pm

Why bundle up and brave the cold winter winds - we're kidding - just to look at Bluffton's outdoor Christmas lights?

The Icon offers this armchair view of the residential lighting winners and the downtown business window winners.

Judges from the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce selected the residential winners and each received chamber gift certificates.

Downtown businesses voted to the three window winners. 

An extra to this scrapbook of photos is Beverly Amstutz's 2015 Christmas card cover "A Christmas from the Past."

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100+ year-old Christmas greeting from The Icon

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 24, 2015 - 1:46pm

"Peace, happiness and content to thee and thine." 

This Christmas card was mailed to Bertha Althaus, Bluffton, Ohio, from her brother, Andrew of Toledo. We can't read the postmark date, but Bertha was married in 1899, and after that was Bertha Hahn.

For the address side of the card, check the photo below. There's no street address and no zip code required on this one cent post card.

Bertha Althaus Hahn is the grandmother of Fred Steiner, of the Icon.

 

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Here's Santa's visit to Bluffton in the early 1950s

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 24, 2015 - 9:26am

Here's a photo worth 10,000 Bluffton words. Click on the photo to enlarge it.

Santa Claus (portrayed by Al McCluer) in an early 1950s Bluffton Santa Claus visit approaches a farm wagon stage on the Prebsyterian Church lawn. He arrived by fire truck. Can anyone please identify the fire truck in the photo? The Ford on Main heading north is a 1951 model.

In the background is the original Citizens National Bank, prior to two modifications. Next door is Crow's 5 and 10, The Charles Company and Urich's IGA.

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Historical Bluffton
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Huddle

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 23, 2015 - 5:22pm

Bluffton High School boys' varsity basketball coach Todd Boblitt gives some fourth quarter directions to the Pirates on Dec. 22. Bluffton defeated Western Buckeye League Wapakoneta 65-55.

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