Other Times

100Years Ago – 1920: Calvin Coolidge, the governor of Massachusetts, won Philadelphia last night. Here the Republican nominee for vice president, and the several thousands of earnest men and women who heard him at the Academy of Music by their cheers and applause accepted him as a winner in the coming election. Gov. Sproul expounded the doctrines of Republicans during the event. In what many of his friends declared was the greatest speech he ever delivered, Sproul presented the follies of the Wilson League of Nations, the extravagances of Democratic misrule and showed the Democratic candidates for president and vice president as unequipped for the offices to which they aspire.

75Years Ago – 1945:

There will be no picket line around Chester City Hall on Hallowe’en. A threatened march on the building by members of Sean O’Coeaghan’s Elves, Leprechauns and Little Men’s Marching and Chowder Society was called off today when his honor, Mayor Ralph F. Swarts, gave his official OK for kids to wear false faces a la pre-war years.

50Years Ago – 1970:

About 1,200 persons are expected to pay $25 a plate Monday to eat with candidates for the three top GOP posts in the state. Gubernatorial candidate Raymond Broderick, U.S. Sen. Hugh Scott and

Ralph Scalera, candidate for attorney general, will attend the GOP-sponsored affair at 6:30 p.m. at the Alpine Inn, Baltimore Pike, Springfield.

25Years Ago – 1995: The YWCA of Chester holds its 80th annual dinner meeting Friday at the Ramada Inn, Essington. The honorees, who have been instrumental in keeping the doors open in the last decade include Swarthmore College students Rebecca Bennett and Keisha Constantine; Mae Brown,

45-year employee; trustee Kenneth Landis; Chester High School Principal Shirley Polk, former board member; Warren Sell, manager of First Keystone Federal Bank’s Chester branch; and Marian S. Ware, wife of retired Congressman John H. Ware and a community activist.

10Years Ago – 2010: A rift between two women on a bus escalated into threats at gunpoint and the arrest of a Yeadon resident, Upper Darby police said. A 58-year-old township woman is accused of allegedly pulling out a loaded

.38 special and threatening to shoot the 22-year-old Yeadon woman.