Jan 28 to Feb 3 January 28 1905 - Seven boys are released from the city workhouse after their mothers made desperate pleas for their release. The lads had been jailed for offenses ranging from picking up coal along the tracks or stealing chickens.
Jan. 31
1922 Prohibition triggers wave of alcohol poisonings as people try to imbibe raw wood alcohol and ethanol based drinks, also called canned heat . The Toledo Health Department reports 300 poisonings and 20 deaths from the previous year.
1932 Toledo Fire Department ladder truck and a city bus collide on Collingwood Boulevard, killing two Toledo firemen. They are identified as Captain Andrew Flynn and Bernard Orzechowski of Number 16 Hook and Ladder Co.
Feb. 1
1921 Community Traction Company begins operations with electric street car operations in Toledo.
1936 Toledo first grader Barb Lamont celebrates her sixth birthday with a bullet in her brain after she had been shot 18 months before. Doctors fear surgery might do more harm than good. The young girl is reported to be doing well in school.