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100 Years Ago – 1919: Eleven men were arrested in a raid on a gambling “joint” at 118 St. Charles St., yesterday. The house was operating in full blast when the police made the raid. Money, cards and a poker table were confiscated.
75 Years Ago – 1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, seated in the rear car of the Presidential Special, passed through Chester at
11:33 a.m. today and waved and flashed his famous smile at some 3,000 men, women, children and babies who waited to get a glimpse of the man who seeks a fourth term. As the long campaign train slowed to a crawl as it neared the Baltimore and Ohio Station at 12th Street and Providence Avenue, the crowd surged against the thin wire ropes that had been strung along the platform. Secret Service men and Chester police, auxiliary police, state police and county detectives scanned the crowds but the crowd had eyes only for the train. 50 Years Ago – 1969: News tips about a holdup, a fallen tree and an automobile accident won prizes in last week’s Daily Times News Tip Contest. Bruce Ericcson of 38N. Chester Pike, Glenolden, won first prize of $5 for his tip about a holdup at the MacDade Drive-in Theater in which an employee was shot.
Helen Myers, 517 E. 11th St., Chester, won second prize of $3 for her tip about a tree that fell across the street near her house and was blocking traffic. Third prize of $2 went to Jacquelyn Pincoski, 357 Holland St., Ridley Township, for her tip about a woman being struck by a car at
10th Street and Edgmont Avenue, Chester.
25 Years Ago – 1994: Businesses beware. Millbourne is lowering the boom on merchants to pay up or else in 1995. Council reviewed budget figures last night and determined the previous method of collecting mercantile taxes, an honor system, has been ineffective. The 1994 budget projected $17,000 in revenue in mercantile taxes and collected $12,000 to September.
10 Years Ago – 2009: Thanks to a donation from Allstate Insurance, the Upper Darby Police Department now owns a “bait car,” or a car rigged with high-tech surveillance and a locking feature to catch potential car thieves in the act. The car features about
$20,000 in equipment, including a GPS tracking device, video cameras and audio surveillance that all feed to police laptops. Police can also shut down the vehicle and lock the thief in the car.