Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917:
With the war tax on tobacco in effect and inventories being made of the stock on hand by the revenue collectors, cigar and tobacco dealers this morning to a unit throughout Chester increased their prices. The usual “nickel” cigar had an additional penny tacked on it, with the consequence smokers are today paying six cents for what was formerly five cents, 12 cents for former 10-cent “smokes” and 18-cents for the “old” 15-cent Havana smoke.
75 Years Ago – 1942:
The state will reopen its 165 closed liquor stores with new personnel unless clerks who staged a one-day walkout Saturday for higher wages and were subsequently suspended return to work soon, Chairman Fred T. Gelder of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board said. The 725 state employees may return to their jobs “if they recognize that they can’t strike against the state and say so,” he said. The closed stores are located largely in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
The long fight over local school district reorganization in Pennsylvania may be in for another battle. A bill now pending in the state Senate would void court appeals affecting reorganization of 127 school districts in the state, including 21 in Delaware County. The measure would toss the whole question of school district mergers back in the laps of county school boards, which have wrestled with it for 10 years.
25 Years Ago – 1992:
A deadbeat dad who owed more than $55,000 in support payments was sentenced to a maximum six months in jail by Senior Judge Robert Wright. The 45-year-old arrested last week in Schuykill County after several years on the Domestic Relations Department’s “Most Wanted” List. Anthony Simmons, DRD’s director of operations, said if the man is able to obtain a job and come up with $5,000, he can be released from jail early and be eligible for work release during his jail time.
10 Years Ago – 2007:
The booming sound of a ship whistle was heard once again along the shores of the Delaware River Saturday as 100 former employees and guests of the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. dedicated a historical marker on Route 291 in Chester in the company’s memory. “This is something they heard every day,” David Kavanagh, president and founder of the Sun Ship Historical Society, said.