Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1918: From the United Press in Paris (prematurely calling an armistice due to miscommunication): The greatest war in history officially came to an end at 2 p.m. The Allies and Germany signed an armistice three hours earlier on the field of battle. The German delegation had come into the Allied lines under a white flag. From the New York UP Bureau: The United Press bulletin that brought the first news to America of the signing of the armistice with Germany, was signed personally by Roy W. Howard, president of the United Press, now in general charge of the United Paris organization in France. The dispatch also carried the signature of Wm. Phillip Simms, chief of the Paris bureau.
75 Years Ago – 1943: Following a complaint that a woman with a baby carriage narrowly missed being shot as she walked along Bethel Road in Upper Chichester Township, police announced that additional complaints that boys with rifles are carelessly shooting in the township will lead to confiscation of their rifles. Constable William Russo said that five complaints were received on Sunday.
50 Years Ago – 1968: County real estate taxes are likely to be hiked by one-half mill to enable the county to meet its $1.2 million commitment to Pennsylvania State University for its county branch campus. County Commission Chairman Frank A. Snear Jr. expects the increase would continue for three to four years until the obligation is met. The present rate is
19.1 mills.
25 Years Ago – 1993: A West End citizens group has dropped most of its objections to a medical waste processing facility in Chester, including a charge that the state Department of Environmental Resources practiced “environmental racism” by approving it. Lawyers for the company operating the facility, which plans to sterilize up to 403 tons a day of infectious waste at Front and Thurlow streets, said they will seek court costs and attorney’s fees from the group for filing a “frivolous” appeal of its operating permit.
10 Years Ago – 2008: Employees at the QVC headquarters in West Goshen Township, Chester County, had a surprise visit from nature Wednesday afternoon when a deer crashed through a first-floor office and began running around the building. The deer crashed through the window of an unoccupied office and then ran through the atrium before an employee opened the door to a computer lab and trapped the deer inside.