Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1918:

William Thirlwall is the name of the hero who rescued a 5-year-old boy from drowning in the Chester River at Seventh and Penn streets Tuesday at noon. But so modest is he that had it not been for his fellow workers, headed by W.W. Graham, supervisor for the Southern Pennsylvania Traction Co., his identity would not have been made know. Thirlwall, 31, who lives at 82 W. Eighth St., Chester, was returning from lunch when in front of the Playhouse he heard the frantic screams of a woman on the Seventh Street bridge. The woman was so hysterical she did not talk coherently, but pointed in the direction of the river below.

75 Years Ago – 1943:

Announcement was made that the Public Utility Commission has authorized the Sun Oil Co. and the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. to close to public use the Hewes Avenue bridge over the tracks of the boundary of Marcus Hook and Lower Chichester. The companies contended that the nearby Blueball Avenue and Market Street bridges proved adequate and safe means of crossing the tracks and that there was no need of maintaining the Hewes Avenue span.

50 Years Ago – 1968:

Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Upland, will reopen the old Chester Hospital June 10 house temporary 21 clinics which must be relocated while the hospital builds new facilities. Hospital Administrator Elton W. Barclay said this includes the alcoholism and mental health clinics now in buildings the hospital owns on Seminary Avenue, Upland.

25 Years Ago – 1993:

Ina talk at Swarthmore College Thursday night, conservative scholar-activist Dinesh D’Souza took aim at what he sees as ignorant and ideologically corrupt trash that passes for “multicultural” studies on college campuses across the country. D’Souza was especially scornful of knowledge scholars who keep quiet about works based in distortions, misinformation, out-right lies, or nothing at all, to protect their own careers.

10 Years Ago – 2008:

Sun Valley High School students were shocked and thrilled to see and speak with one of their favorite teachers via video conference during a Wednesday morning assembly. Popular mathematics teacher Joe Malaczewski, who has not been at school since a February skiing accident, appeared on a large screen in the high school auditorium as a surprise during an assembly.