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100 Years Ago – 1917: “Over the top and at ‘em,” football fan – the supply of tickets for the Pennsylvania Military College-Penn football game at Franklin Field on Election Day is strictly limited. Follow the PMC “Big Gray Team” to see the gridiron clash with tickets on sale at Spencer’s, 523 Market St., and at the Chester Times office, 418 Market St.
75Years Ago – 1942: Mrs. Lily Baldridge, of the 900 block of Edgmont Avenue, has received word that her son Edward, who had been reported missing since July 15 after the tanker on which he was serving was torpedoed by an enemy submarine, is confined to a hospital in a foreign port with wounds to his legs. This is the second time in this war that a ship on which Baldridge was sailing was torpedoed. His first experience was on June 15, and undaunted, he shipped again on July 11. He has served 17 years at sea with the Navy and Merchant Marine.
50Years Ago – 1967: Gov. Raymond P. Shafer has approved a $224,540 federal grant for operation of an in-school Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) program in Chester and Delaware counties, designed to prevent children from low-income families from dropping out of school because of a lack of money by paying youth to work in area agencies. The Great Chester Movement, which operations an out-of-school NYC program, has been unable to set up an in-school program because of a lack of federal antipoverty funds. Chester County, which already had an in-school program, was permitted to expand it to include some Delaware County youths.
25 Years Ago – 1992: President George Bush began the last day of his last campaign in Delaware County yesterday, vowing “one of the biggest surprises in political history” by winning a second term today. The choice between him and Democratic Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas “boils down to character and trust,” Bush repeated again and again to a crowd of more than 4,000 people, some of whom had waited for hours in a cold drizzle at the Briarcliffe Athletic Association. Bush claimed that Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein was planning to throw a massive party if Clinton is elected, but “Saddam better put it on hold.”
10Years Ago – 2007: After much cleaning, painting, and repairing, Anna’s Place, a hospitality/dropin center at 1408 W. Second St. (second floor of St. Katharine Drexel Center for Evangelization) in Chester, is ready to receive its first guests. Sponsored by the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, Anna’s Place is named after the congregation’s foundress, Maria Anna Bachmann (Mother Francis).