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Marion Harland was the pen name used by Mary Virginia Hawes (later Terhune) from Virginia. She was the author of several books including Common Sense for the Household in 1871 and Secret of a Happy Home in 1896. Harland was the first name associated…

The Sunday Dispatch Magazine premiered on October 7, 1945. It featured stories in color gravure from around Ohio – the first of its kind in the state. Dispatch Food Editor Marilyn R. Beckes developed this recipe in the basement kitchen at the…

The Dispatch, along with the Ohio Fuel Company, hosted a multi-day Spring Cooking School, first at Memorial Hall and later at the RKO Palace Theater. In this photo, Virginia Hutchinson of the Dispatch, Shirley Nolan of the Ohio Fuel Company, Hulda…

Pictured left to right: Mary Pegg, Dispatch Food Editor, unknown kitchen staff member and Lillian Hergesell, Assistant Food Editor in the Dispatch Kitchen located in the basement at 34 S. Third St. Here Food Editors and staff tested new recipes to…

Christmas cookies have been a major feature in the Dispatch as seen on this cover from 1946. This continued through the years with Food Editors calling for readers to send in their favorite cookie recipe. They were collected and published in the Food…

Children line metaphorical tracks waiting for the Christmas Day train to arrive in this Christmas Eve 1922 frame from Ireland’s The Passing Show.

Bob Anderson received the first heart transplant in central Ohio in 1986.

Instead of building a snowman, children sculpt Charles Schulz’s Snoopy laying on top of his doghouse from snow in their backyard.

Rosetta Anderson played the accordion at the Marion Franklin Lions Club for their 1977 White Cane Sale festivities. The Lions Club raised money for Rosetta to purchase artificial eyes, as she was blind. Standing behind her were Lions Club members…

This editorial cartoon by Ray Evans was published in the Nov. 2, 1932, issue of the Dispatch, days before Franklin D. Roosevelt would defeat Republican incumbent President Herbert Hoover by a landslide. Rather than depicting Roosevelt winning over…