Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917:
In hearty accord with the spirit of civic progress and the trend of events leading to the march of improvement now spreading over Chester, a number of businessmen who are vitally interested in the city’s advancement generally and in the development of Fourth Street particularly held a meeting yesterday afternoon at the store of the William J. Farley Co. to discuss matters of mutual interest and benefit.
75 Years Ago – 1942:
Greeting his audience of more than 3,000 persons with his familiar “Hello everybody!” Lowell Thomas, famous radio commentary, writer, lecturer and traveler, complimented those working in the industrial area of Marcus Hook for making possible the “Work for Victory” parade which preceded his speech. He spoke from a speaker’s stand erected in a field which is now being improved by the erection of additional gasoline storage tanks for the Sun Oil Company.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
Construction work to correct an 11-foot error in the placing of an Interstate 95 bridge in Upper Chichester is tentatively scheduled to begin Friday. A section of the Conchester Highway in Chester will be torn up and relocated to line up with the bridge. The bridge carries westbound lanes of the superhighway and is located just south of the Conchester where Interstate 95 bends toward Delaware in Upper Chichester.
25 Years Ago – 1992:
War-torn Sarajevo desperately needs medical supplies as the bloody civil war in former Yugoslavia continues, according to a Delaware County doctor who was one of the first American physicians on the scene last week. Dr. Bartholomew J. Tortella of Maple, a 39-year-old trauma surgeon, was part of a nine-member medical team that landed in Bosnia-Herzegovnia on Wednesday, returning to the United States on Saturday. He described a hospital adequately staffed but out of basic supplies. Two of its four operating rooms have been hit by gunfire and are out of commission.
10 Years Ago – 2007:
The Penn-Delco School Board, already embroiled in controversy surrounding the actions of its former president and the revolving door that has seen board members come and go, is now reviewing a costly life insurance policy purchased under the previous board president’s watch and whether the district is getting enough bang for its buck.