Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1918: Five thousand cases of the grip are believed to be in this city. While no official figures are obtainable at the Health Department, it was stated by Dr. H.C. Donahoo, supervisor of health that every physician in the city has at least 200 cases. A great majority of these are persons with only mild colds or in the first stages of Spanish Influenza. Pneumonia is sweeping the city as the result of persons suffering a relapse after a slight touch of the grip.
75 Years Ago – 1943: National Newspaper Week will be observed at the regular meetings of the Chester Kiwanis and the Chester Optimists clubs. Hugh A. Wagnon, current Pennsylvania manager of the Association Press and manager of the London Bureau during the German air blitz, will be the speaker at the Kiwanis meeting in the Chester Y.W.C.A. Jack B. Thompson, editorial writer and reporter for the Chester Times, will be the guest speaker at the Optimist Club meeting, held at the Chester Club.
50 Years Ago – 1968: Plans for a $16 million thoroughbred (flat) racing track in Newtown were presented to the Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission today, but zoning problems and citizen protests accompanied the presentation of the Delaware Valley Thoroughbred Racing Association. Daniel J. McCauley, attorney and DVTRA member, said his group sought a license for a one-mile flat track on
230 acres at West Chester Pike in the western part of Newtown and a section of Edgmont. About 10 letters of protest and a petition from the Echo Valley Civic Association have been sent to the commission.
25 Years Ago – 1993: From Sound Off: Isn’t there anyone out there who’s scared to death about Congress and the president exempting themselves from the new health plan? Why shouldn’t they be covered the same as everyone else? It’s all our tax money that’s paying for it, and I don’t think they should get better health care than we get ourselves. Signed, Very Scared
10 Years Ago – 2008: Two men were arrested for allegedly stealing copper tubing and wires from the shuttered Pulaski Middle School in Chester, closed since 2003, on Tuesday. At 1:33 p.m., Officer Robert Gorman was dispatched to the school, located on Seventh Street in the city’s West End. When he entered the lobby, he spotted two men walking toward him. The men fled through a door at the rear of the building, next to which Gorman found a large pile of copper tubing and wires.