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100 Years Ago – 1920: Fire sweeping through the large buildings on the Wawa Diary (Dairy) Farms yesterday afternoon caused a loss of approximately
$150,000 in buildings, machinery and feed, according to the owners. The fire started in one of the two-story frame structures containing machinery, horses and cattle. Men employed on the farm and neighbors rescued the horses and cattle. Mrs. Charles Rice telephoned for the fire companies in Media, Lansdowne, Chester, Swarthmore and West Chester. Hundreds of automobiles parked along the roadside and in the field where their occupants watched the blaze.
75 Years Ago – 1945:
In case you’ve accidentally gulped down some of those wormy-looking little creatures that have been coming out of West End faucets with Chester water the last few days, you needn’t worry too much about contracting some sort of a disease. Water company and city health officials today pronounced them absolutely harmless to the human body – although definitely bad from a psychological standpoint. According to a report to City Bacteriologist George B. Sickel from the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Zoology, they are the larvae of such insects as dragon flies,
May flies and similar bugs usually found around ponds or reservoirs.
50 Years Ago – 1970:
The Daily Times has been named the best mediumsize daily newspaper in Pennsylvania for the fourth time in the past five years. Daily Times staff members compiled the 50 points by winning four first-place prizes and two secondplace awards in competition against entries from
28 other medium-size daily newspapers in the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association competition.
25 Years Ago – 1995: After some bitter debate over truck speeds and state police money, the state House on a 156-43 vote yesterday passed a Senate bill to raise the speed limit to 65 mph on some rural highways. The higher speed limit won’t apply to any Delaware County highways.
10 Years Ago – 2010: As more teens and younger adults are using heroin, Ridley Park Police Cpl. Robert Frazier is also noticing more and more people gathering in lines at funeral homes when they overdose. He and fellow police Cpl. James Nasella want their message to hit home: Heroin is an epidemic in our area.