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100Years Ago – 1919: Pennsylvania newspaper publishers and editors in session in Harrisburg today passed resolutions endorsing the three-cent daily newspaper and increased advertising rates as the only possible means of meeting the present high cost of newsprint paper and other fixed charges of publication. The scarcity of newsprint paper is to be met with a general cutting down of the size of papers wherever possible.
75Years Ago – 1944: Armistice Day activity on the home front is enlivened by a full program of America’s favorite fall pastime – football – and schoolboys and collegians offer numerous attractions in the Chester metropolitan area and in nearby cities of Wilmington and Philadelphia. The Clippers of Chester High School, striving to even their season record at four wins against four losses, are in Delaware to meet their oldest rivals, Wilmington High’s red-clad Chicks. This is the 55th meeting of a series that dates back to
1891, one of the oldest of its kind in the nation.
50Years Ago – 1969: This is a week of public expression of sentiment on the Vietnam War. Apparently unmoved by President Richard M. Nixon’s Nov.
3speech or by gloomy predictions of violence, Delaware County antiwar groups are continuing plans for their march on Washington Thursday. Veterans groups, and President Nixon’s “silent majority,” meanwhile, are trying to offset the antiwar demonstrations with parades, prayer meetings and public displays of support for Nixon’s policy in Vietnam.
25Years Ago – 1994: From the business column: The Plaza and The Court at King of Prussia, one of the largest shopping centers in the country, will announce a smoke-free policy starting Jan. 1, 1995. “The Plaza and The Court are seeking to provide a healthy environment for healthconscious shoppers of the ‘90s,’’ said Deane Shauger, Plaza general manager;
Caesars Atlantic City Hotel Casino illegally withheld merit pay increases from slot machine attendants who joined a union, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled.
10Years Ago – 2009: Cardinal O’Hara High School teachers Lt. Col. David Kelly, retired from the United States Marine Corps, and Lt. Andrew Stevens, a U.S. Army veteran, lowered the American flag and replaced it with an equally worn Old Glory. “Day and night, this flag made its way through former insurgent strongholds in Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom,” said school President Dr. William J. McCusker. Social Studies Chairwoman Sr. Lucy Marie Schluth said it was given to the school by 2002 O’Hara graduate Spc. Thong T. Nguyen of the 700-man unit commanded by Nether Providence resident Lt. Col. Mark O’Hanlon.