Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1919:
Burglars broke into the freight station of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Lenni, about 3 miles west of Media, stealing more than $6,000worth of cloth incases and bales. The property belonged to the Yorkshire Worsted Mills, the George Brown and son Mills and the Victoria Plush Mills. Cotton and worsted cloth as well as plush cloth was stolen.
75 Years Ago – 1944:
While reaching for an ornament in a newly trimmed Christmas tree, a 2-yearold Drexel Hill child slipped from a chair and was killed. Physicians said the child’s neck was broken. He had climbed on the chair when attracted by the shiny object. Dr. S. Blair Luckie, oldest practicing dentist in the state and second-oldest in the nation, died in his sleep this morning at his home, 333 E. Broad (Ninth) St., Chester. Dr. Luckie was 95last Aug. 22and would have completed 71 years of practice if he had lived to February.
50 Years Ago – 1969:
The Delaware County Daily Times will open a new branch office Friday in Media. Services of the Springfield office will be consolidated at a new Mid-County Office at 117 N. Olive St. Representatives of the classified and display advertising departments and circulation departments will be at the new office. The telephone number will be Tremont 6-1651. It represents an effort to make the services of the newspaper more accessible to the western part of Delaware County, in which direction there has been a county population shift in recent years, General Manager Ronald A. Hedley said.
25 Years Ago – 1994:
A health maintenance organization that wants to insure Chester employees gave the city a check for $250 for a Christmas luncheon hosted by Mayor Barbara Bohannan-Sheppard. The check from the firm was received by the city on Dec. 5, just eight business days before company officials met with city council to pitch their product. Two members of council, Chuck McLaughlin and Annette Burton, are troubled by the situation, saying that the money creates at least an appearance of a conflict of interest.
10 Years Ago – 2009:
Four teenagers were cited for scattering rubbish at the American Hearing Aid property on WilmingtonWest Chester Pike in Chadds Ford last week. The four youths, from Aston, Glen Mills and Boothwyn, were cited for tossing Wawa food wrappers at the location.