Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917: The British Recruiting Mission, over 150 strong, in command of Brigadier General W.A. White, C.M.G., and Colonel St. George Loftus Steele, with colors flying and pipers playing, will arrive at the Sixth Street depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad at 4:07 o’clock this afternoon. Mayor W. S. McDowell and his reception committee, comprised of 40 of the city’s leading business and professional men, will meet the distinguished visitors on the station platform and escort them through the city in the spectacular drive for Britishers to enlist under the flag of John Bull.
75 Years Ago – 1942: Complaint of an issuance of a worthless check and the theft of a blanket was lodged with the police yesterday. Samuel Feinberg, 228 W. Third St., said that he rented a room at this address to a man and was given a check for $37.20. Since then the man left the place and took with him a blanket valued at $5, Feinberg charged.
50 Years Ago – 1967: Philadelphia police were continuing today their investigation into the death of a 19-year-old go-go dancer who apparently was smothered Saturday. The boyfriend of the victim, a 24-year-old Ridley Park man, was questioned Sunday. Police said he was not a suspect in the case. A guitarist at the Club El Rancho in Ridley Township, he reportedly spent Friday night with the girl in a car on the parking lot of the club at 17th Street and Bullens Lane. She was found in the car Saturday afternoon outside her residence in Philadelphia.
25 Years Ago – 1992: The Bush administration’s ongoing review of federal regulations is keeping 33 radioactively-contaminated houses in eastern Delaware County off of the Environmental Protection Agency’s cleanup list, an EPA spokeswoman said. High levels of radon gas and radiation contamination were first discovered in a home in the 100 block of Austin Avenue in June 1991. Since then, the EPA has identified 33 sites the agency believes were contaminated with radioactive sand from a former uranium processing facility in an Austin Avenue warehouse.
10 Years Ago – 2007: The corner of Forrest view Road and Edgmont Avenue at the entrance to Parkside Elementary School has become the borough’s most infamous hot spot. In the year that he has manned this busy school zone post, borough Police Officer Mark Marchesi has seen enough bad driving behavior to issue hundreds of traffic citations, averaging about a half-dozen tickets a day and bringing in revenue of $8,500 last school year alone.