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History: Accumulated land of Thousand Palms Oasis fortunately preserved by a poet
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNo one bothered to actually count the trees at the oasis, but the name Thousand Palms seemed the...
Wilhelm: One of earliest local newspapers supported Whig politics
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOne of the earliest newspapers in what is now Fremont was the Lower Sandusky Whig, launched by Clark...
Roy Wilhelm: General's carriage was a spoil of war
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSometimes it can be a special kind of fun to look back at local history. Today we share some tidbits of the past that I hope you find of interest. The...
Wilhelm: Thomson Houston Company had a 100-year run in Fremont
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe site of Fremont’s First Choice Packaging Company, a firm that today serves a wide variety of industries with designing and manufacturing solutions to packaging challenges, was for more than ...
Wilhelm: U.S. Capitol's statues are an interesting group of individuals
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 9 months agoLast week’s column about George Washington Glick, who was a young lawyer in Fremont who became a political leader and governor of Kansas, spurred my interest in the National Statuary Hall in ...
Wilhelm: Real human stories found in Civil War publications
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn February of 1865, Charles Aldrich, who enlisted in the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Union Army at Fremont four years earlier, was captured by the Rebels near Petersburg. According to the story ...
Wilhelm: John Brown Jr. called to action to defend islands from Confederates
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 11 months agoLast week’s column, based on a book “Sketches and Stories of the Lake Erie Islands” written by Lydia J. Ryall and published in 1913, talked about John Brown Jr., the son of the famous abolitionist ...
Wilhelm: Sandusky County banned saloons 12 years before Prohibition
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoProhibition in the United States, a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages, took effect in 1920. One could say that Sandusky ...
Wilhelm: County has a long history of milling
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA key element in the launching of manufacturing in Sandusky County was the building of grist mills and saw mills along the Sandusky River. The mills provided food and materials for shelter.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Overinflated valuations, equity crowdfunding, SCOTUS v. climate tech
TechCrunch· 2 years agoAll startups are overvalued because "not all shares are equal," he writes. Different investor...