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100Years Ago – 1920: Another chapter in the fight between the Chester jitneurs and the Southern Pennsylvania Traction Co. was added to the case yesterday when the jitney drivers appeared before the Public Service Commission in Harrisburg. The plea of the jitneurs was that they are operating between Pennsylvania and Delaware and are therefore not under the jurisdiction of the Pennsylvania Commission.
75Years Ago – 1945: Though they have only a meager description of the hooded bandit who shot the two co-managers of the Hot Shoppe, 66th and Market streets, early Sunday morning, and fled with nearly $1,000, Millbourne police expect a “development” in the case by Tuesday morning. In the meantime the two victims shot through the back by a .22 caliber slugs from a sawed-off rifle are in fair condition at Delaware County Hospital.
50Years Ago – 1970: Two veteran Chester firemen have lost their salaried jobs as fire truck drivers because of their union organizing activities and said to be “retired” because of their age, one of them charged. The two men, both $137.50-a-week fire truck drivers for Goodwill Fire Co., 15th Street and Providence Avenue, are: Herman E. Dickerson Jr., president of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1400 of Chester. He has been with Goodwill for 41 years; William A. Sweeney, a 38-year member of Goodwill.
25Years Ago – 1995: The old St. James High School was sold Friday to Commonwealth Real Estate Investors, which plans a retirement home for the property and will fight Chester Upland School District’s efforts to condemn the building for its own use, the company’s attorney said. Officials have said the district is considering using the building, after extensive renovations, for its Chester High School Academy for gifted students or as another elementary school to ease overcrowding in existing grade schools.
10Years Ago – 2010: Thieves broke into 10 cars in the borough earlier this week and stole about $2,700 in assorted valuables left inside, Swarthmore police said. Several victims reported their cars were locked, though there were no signs of forcible entry. Reportedly stolen were Garmin and Tom Tom GPS units, sunglasses, a Lionel train set, Blackberry battery chargers, an ePad desk, a radar detector, a Sirius radio receiver and $12 in cash.