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100 Years Ago – 1919: Automobiles as instruments of death are losing their terrors for Martin Whelan, of Ardmore. For the fourth time within a year he was struck Sunday by a machine. Whelan was riding along Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, with Joseph Powers, his business partner, when the machine suddenly began to spit fire and then stopped. Whelan jumped from his seat to the ground to examine the engine, and walked directly into the path of the car of J.E. Kearns, also of the Main Line.

75 Years Ago – 1944: A go-getting, freckled-face newsboy for the Detroit Times, who sold 31,600

10-cent War Stamps has won his mother and him a long-earned vacation, which will bring them to Chester for the launching of the SS Lone Jack at Sun Shipyard on Oct. 21. He is Donald Bruwier, who won the Midwest championship for selling War Stamps in the recent bond drive staged by newspapers. He was given the honor of naming the sponsor for a ship launch and he picked his mother, Mrs. Henry Bruwier, a war worker in a Detroit munition plant.

50 Years Ago – 1969: The Garnet Valley School Board Monday night banned the playing of a folk song version of the National Anthem at daily opening exercises at the high school. Brandywine American Legion Post No. 811had objected to the recorded version by Jose Feliciano, a folk rendition that created a furor when he sang it at the opening game of the

1968 World Series.

25 Years Ago – 1994: A local health care organization agreed to buy Nazareth Hospital in Northeast Philadelphia. The Franciscan Health System (FHS), located on MacIntyre Drive in Aston, will buy Nazareth for an undisclosed price. Sister M. Jeanette Lawlor, a top officer of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth and hospital chairperson, said the changing health care environment caused difficulties managing the hospital – one of six owned by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth – and prompted the sale.

10 Years Ago – 2009: The build-out of the sanitary sewer system dominated Upper Providence Township Council’s October meeting. Although it has been in the process for at least a decade, there is a sentiment it should not be rushed. Council passed the first reading of an ordinance that will extend the charter of the Upper Providence Sewer Authority (UPSA) for

50years. The authority is an independent body created by the township, but largely governed by other state legislation.