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August 1947: A sound foreign to Bluffton’s ears

Posted by Staff on September 10, 2023 - 6:00am

The first-ever diesel locomotive passed through town on a test run

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

Remember seeing your first-ever electric-driven vehicle in Bluffton? Compare that to the following image: It passed through Bluffton in an unusual color scheme (reddish-orange) blasting a very foreign sound (a “hoarse” whistle).

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How did you spend your summer vacation?

Posted by Staff on September 5, 2023 - 6:00am

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

If you lived in Bluffton during the summer of 1947–76 vacations ago–chances are your vacation plans were announced on the front page of The Bluffton News.

And, if you don’t believe this, simply scroll to the bottom of the feature and see for yourself. You will discover the vacation plans of over 50 Bluffton families.

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Bluffton residents brush with history c. 1940s

Posted by Paula Scott on August 27, 2023 - 6:00am

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

In November 1945 Bluffton resident Betty Steinman experienced a brush with history like no other person in Bluffton.

It is one of several interesting brushes with history that Bluffton residents reported in The Bluffton News. Some of those accounts follow Betty’s. The accounts in this feature are from the mid-1940s. 

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Looking for Benroth’s Saloon or the Modern Suit and Shirt Co.?

Posted by Staff on August 20, 2023 - 6:00am

Sorry to say, they are no longer in business… but the building housing them still exists

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

Here’s a familiar Bluffton Main Street business block of three stores in an undated late-1880, early 1890-era photo. Check several photo enlargements of this scene at the bottom of this feature.

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Dillinger plays a minor role in robbery retelling

Posted by Paula Scott on August 15, 2023 - 6:00am

By Paula Scott

Why should we retell the story of the 1933 robbery of the Citizens National Bank by the John Dillinger gang? Does it glorify a vicious criminal? That certainly wasn’t the effect of the Saturday, August 12 observation of Bluffton History Day that drew some 180 people to the corner of Main and Church streets.

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Stepping into a 1903 Bluffton barbershop

Posted by Staff on August 13, 2023 - 6:00am

Tine McGriff and Forest Mumma had over 100 customers

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

What might you find if you stepped into a Bluffton barbershop at the turn of an earlier century?

Thanks to a recently discovered photo of the Tine McGriff Barbershop on Bluffton’s Main Street in 1903, several photo enlargements provide an excellent look inside this business of 120 years ago. The closer you look, the more things you see.

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