Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1918:
A rapid-fire response to the Third Liberty Loan drive was demonstrated yesterday when the men in overalls at Baldwin’s Locomotive Works held a parade and patriotic rally and inside of two hours raised $10,000. The stride which the Baldwin committee has fixed is $800,000 and is a noteworthy fact that the gigantic clock in front of the smith-shop office registered a total subscription of $429,000.
75 Years Ago – 1943:
The Public Utilities Commission today temporary approved plans by the Philadelphia Transportation Co. to construct new tracks on its Chester Short Line in Eddystone and Chester to provide additional transportation facilities for war workers. The improvement will consist of a second track on portions of the line in Eddystone and Chester, a new line on Upland Street between Third and Fourth streets in Chester, and new terminal tracks at the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.
50 Years Ago – 1968:
The West-End Ministerial Fellowship Inc. has begun a drive to raise “seed money” to help finance a cooperative housing development in the North Central Urban Renewal Area. Fellowship President Daniel A. Scott said today the development will be named after the late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, who was assassinated April 4 in Memphis, Tenn. He said he fellowship, operating as a nonprofit corporation, plans to build 100 homes on a tract of land bounded by Eighth, Seventh and Broomall streets and Central Avenue in Chester.
25 Years Ago – 1993:
A Chester man almost conned his way out of a paternity suit by getting a friend to fill in for him at a blood test, police said. But the man’s clever cover was blown when county detectives arrested the 30-yearold East 14th Street man in Aston and charged him with tampering with public records and a long list of related offenses. The fatal flaw in his plan came when the Delaware County Domestic Relations Unit took a picture of the imposter, a 32-year-old Norwood man, when he submitted to blood testing last August.
10 Years Ago – 2008:
Nicholas Costa of Glenolden has been accepted to attend the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth academic programs for gifted second- through 12th-graders this summer. He will be taking flight science at Johns Hopkins.