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100 Years Ago – 1920: A $600,000 reclamation project – the biggest real estate deal since mid-war boom days – has been made public by the Sun Ship Co. concerning its Fifth Ward land holdings in Chester. Ninth Street quarry is to be drained, all the swamp land north of East Ninth Street to Morton Avenue will be filled in, also all the swamp land South of Ninth Street to the Pennsylvania Railroad will be filled, these reclaimed lands to be utilized, for possible addition building operations of the Sun Co.
75 Years Ago – 1945:
A hitch in the previously smooth progress of the Lee Joe murder investigation today threatened to delay return of the accused slayer from New
York for almost a week. Knee New, the 38-year-old New Yorker who is charged with bludgeoning the aged laundryman to death with a hammer, is fighting extradition to Pennsylvania. Local authorities said it will be necessary to go through all the legal formalities. New York detectives said he had $1,200 in his possession, the amount believed stolen from the 80-year-old West End laundryman.
50 Years Ago – 1970: A Chester man was stabbed and seriously injured late Saturday night, shortly before police arrested 22 youths reportedly armed with guns, knives and chains. The victim told police that while he was walking near Ninth Street and Morton Avenue at 11:50 p.m., three carloads of youths pulled alongside him. The occupants wanted to know if he was a gang member. When he replied that he had no knowledge of a fight the previous night, one of the youths stabbed him in the back.
25 Years Ago – 1995:
Poet Woon Ping Chin, an associate professor of English at Swarthmore College, was one of this year’s 16 winners of a $50,000 Pew Arts Fellowship, the largest such grants for artists in the U.S. Chin, 49, has been described as an “extraordinary exciting contemporary hybrid: the artist as both Asian and American woman and feminist, post colonial and Third World subject, with multiple origins (and) several cultures all in active and fertile collision.”
10 Years Ago – 2010:
Ever wanted to tell Daily Times featured columnist Gil Spencer exactly what you think of him? You can “chat” with him online as well. Gil will be taking questions from readers at delcotimes.com on what they would like to see him tackle.