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100 Years Ago – 1918: Mayor McDowell received the resignation of another officer today and others are expected before the general clean-up takes place. Besides being clean-up week for the city, it has been decreed clean-up week for the police department, and all who fail to “toe the mark” will be asked to relinquish their jobs. Announcement in yesterday’s Times that young men with military training and returning soldiers from France will be offered positions caused quite a stir in the police department, and all are anxiously waiting developments.
75 Years Ago – 1943: A former resident of Lansdowne who was committed to the Norristown State Hospital for the insane in September
1941, for allegedly sending annoying letters to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, was denied release yesterday. Dr. Alfred P. Noyes, the institution superintendent, opposed a habeas corpus petition for the 39-year-old research scientist who denied having sent the letters.
50 Years Ago – 1968: A phalanx of State Police shoved and pushed some 200 welfare demonstrators from the Capitol rotunda in Harrisburg after an 11-hour sit-in. Earlier, the demonstrators, about 100 from Chester, went to Gov. Shafer’s office to be heard, but were told he was unavailable. The demonstration included chants of “We Want Shafer” and singing of Christmas carols in the Capitol, but ended with screams and panic as state police broke it up, according to Mrs. Annabelle Smith, chairman of the Chester Welfare Rights Organizations.
25 Years Ago – 1993: From Sound Off: ‘Who cares about Bobbitt?’ – I remember things like Pearl Harbor, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the assassination of JFK. Those things were news. But (John Wayne) Bobbitt? What does that have to do with anything? What kind of people are interested in Bobbitt?
10 Years Ago – 2008: The explanation a 20-year-old man offered to Chester police certainly didn’t help his case, but neither did the bags of crack and marijuana he was allegedly carrying. “All I was doing was smoking a little weed while I waited for my girl to come out of the crib,” said the contrite suspect while being questioned by police around
11:17 p.m. Nov. 10. Police had been dispatched to area of Upland Street and Bickley Place after receiving a report of a man selling drugs out of a white Chevy Lumina. A Ziploc bag of suspected marijuana was allegedly found on the front seat of the car, another fell from his pant leg and eight bags of suspected crack cocaine were found in his pants.