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100Years Ago – 1919: Complete list of the Chester, Trainer and Upland boys who made the supreme sacrifice in the World War will be ready tomorrow for the tablet to be placed in the City Hall plaza by directors of the Pennsylvania National Bank. Considerable difficulty is experienced in checking the official list. There were a number of names on the list of young men who were not killed and the final check-up will be completed by the Chester Chapter of the Red Cross tonight. There will be about 115names.
75Years Ago – 1944: Hundreds of person have jumped the gun on old St. Nick this year, starting their Christmas shopping earlier to fill their needs of anticipated “hard-to-get” items, it was revealed today. Bringing an increase in local stores upwards of 35percent over the same period last year, shoppers were hurrying through their Christmas lists to get the articles they want to give as gifts.
50Years Ago – 1969: Swarthmore Borough Council passed a resolution Monday night opposing the proposed $20-million shopping mall under consideration in Springfield at the intersection of Baltimore Pike and Sproul Road. Prompted by the opposition of Paul E. Zecher of 717Swarthmore Ave. and other residents, council took primarily because of potential traffic problems for Swarthmore if the mall is constructed.
25Years Ago – 1994: Kwanzaa came to the city a little early this year as children, parents, and college students celebrated the holiday of the African harvest last night at the Deshong Museum and Cultural Arts Center in Chester. The gathering also marked the end of the semester for the children in the Chester YWCA Homework Clinic and the student volunteers from Widener University and Swarthmore College who tutor them. The program for firstthrough sixth-graders included 45 minutes of homework and a half-hour of enrichment activities, such as music, dancing, and computer training.
10Years Ago – 2009: Several Republican Delaware County state House members issued a statement Tuesday calling proposed legislation that would restrict elected officials to holding one seat at a time “partisan and hypocritical,” and lambasted the bill’s author, state Rep. Bryan Lentz, D-161of Swarthmore. “Bryan Lentz has claimed that he believes a legislator must ‘give the office his or her primary attention and represent constituents to the best of his or her ability,’” said state Rep. Bill Adolph, R-165, of Springfield, in a release. “If this is truly his primary motivation, then Lentz should step down immediately,” he said, as Lentz is currently in the 7th Congressional District Democratic primary.