This week in Toledo history – June 22-28

June 22

1912: Heubner Brewery of Toledo runs a full-page ad in the News Bee explaining why beer offers so many “healthful life-giving qualities.”

1914: It’s revealed the Harry Atwood, an early Toledo aviation pioneer, and his bride are alive and safe on the ground in Bono. It was feared that Atwood and his new bride had died in a crash in Lake Erie as he was piloting an airboat from Sandusky to Toledo during a lightning storm. He says they were forced down by the storm to a small island and made their way to shore from there…

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