Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1919: Several people were heard to remark about the way travelers on the Southern Pennsylvania Traction Company’s cars are being handled by the employers of the road. Yesterday during the rush, one of the large cars crowded to its capacity, failed to stop to let three men off. Some remarks followed, the conductor asserting that he had orders to let no one off the car by the rear door. It was next to impossible for the men to get through the crowd and were carried several squares past their destination.
75 Years Ago – 1944: Inserting an automobile ignition key into an electric light socket, a 3-year-old was electrocuted about
6:40 p.m. Wednesday at the home of his aunt and uncle in the first block of South Wycombe Avenue, Lansdowne. The child left his mother while the family was still at dinner. Finding the key, he apparently slipped one into the socket as he had so often seen his parents insert the key into the car ignition. There was no sound, and when first found, he was thought to have fallen asleep on the floor by the baseboard.
50 Years Ago – 1969:
A Chester woman was injured Sunday night when her gas stove exploded. Mrs. Samuel Brown, 69, of
934 W. Eighth St., suffered a concussion when the stove explored around
10 p.m. She was taken to Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Upland, where she was listed in fair condition today.
25 Years Ago – 1994: Foamex International Inc., the largest maker and manufacturer of polyurethane foam products in North America and a Fortune
500 company, is moving its corporate headquarters from East Providence, R.I., to Delaware County, according to Delaware County Commerce Director J. Patrick Killian. The company will relocate to a
47,000-square-foot office building in the Chichester Business Park in Linwood, Lower Chichester Township, this fall.
10 Years Ago – 2009: The 13-year-old boy who survived a nearly 50-foot fall from the Sears parking garage onto Richfield Avenue in his family’s SUV after taking the car for a joyride is “as lucky as one can be,” said Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood. It was astonishing the boy was able to crawl out of the car on his own and no one was seriously injured, according to Chitwood.”That street is usually crowded by people and cars and it’s truly lucky that you didn’t have a multiple tragedy,” he said.