Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917:
“Was Chester’s spurt of patriotism like a flash in the pan and soon passed out of existence?” This is what Lieutenant C.R. Norris and his staff were asking yesterday, after seeing the patriotic demonstration on Thursday. Yesterday, Chester Mayor McDowell. Ellwood Turner, Esq., and three other citizens were the only citizens to visit the recruiting station to give assistance.
75 Years Ago – 1942:
The three Chester school children who turn in the most “tags for tanks” will receive prizes from the Keystone Motor Club. The campaign to collect discarded automobile license plates for scrap metal is hitting its peak with the expiration date for last year’s tags. Every child in the city’s schools who turns in a pair of plates will receive a ticket to a special movie matinee.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
Chester pediatrician Dr. Loretta Delaites testified that an “intense, stinging type of action” caused ‘”extensive bruises” on the buttocks of an 11-yearold Aston boy who says his teacher spanked him after failing to complete a 2,600-word composition assigned as discipline. Delaites told the Penn-Delco School Board the examination was two days after the alleged paddling at Green Ridge Elementary School. After three hours of testimony against the teacher, the board continued a public hearing into “cruelty” and “incompetency” charges until next Friday.
25 Years Ago – 1992:
State Rep. Steve Friend, R-166 of Haverford, tried to solicit a campaign contribution from a man he publicly blasted as “the porn king” of Philadelphia. The campaign team of Friend’s primary opponent, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, released the solicitation Freind mailed to the Philadelphia real estate magnate. Only two weeks before, Freind had blasted Specter who accepting campaign contribution from the man whose vast real estate holding include buildings where “Doc Johnson’s Love Products” and a porno theater are housed.
10 Years Ago – 2007:
Tinicum commissioners are focusing on the problem of a suspected half-dozen boarding houses they say have illegally popped up in the township, where multiple rooms are rented out to people in what should be residential housing. The locations are convenient to Philadelphia International Airport employees.