Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1921:
“I want to thank you for continuing the paper to me, as I would have been sorry to have missed any of the copies,” write a lady reader of the Times. “Chester was my home for 40 years. I left there in 1911and have taken the Times ever since. It was sent to Cleveland,
O., to me until 1913, when I married and came to Stamford, Conn., to live. I have heard it said that when one has been away from a place five years, a home paper soon loses interest, but I have found it otherwise. I am just as much interest in the home news from Chester as I ever was when living there.”
75 Years Ago – 1946:
Pat Robinson, war correspondent for International News Service and former ace sports reporter, will be guest speaker when the Chester Kiwanis Club honors Glen-Nor High School, 1946 Kiwanis Tournament champion, at the annual post-tournament dinner at the YWCA Wednesday evening at 6:30.
50 Years Ago – 1971:
An “East Coast” FBI office – presumably the one in Media – was broken into this week by a group which stole files to study the organization’s activities, a figure in the so-called “Berrigan Plot” revealed Thursday. William
C. Davidson, a Haverford College physics professor, startled about 65persons at a forum on the Berrigan case at the Swarthmore Presbyterian Church with his revelation.
25 Years Ago – 1996: MidCounty Senior Services has received a third grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to continue its “Chore Connection” volunteer program through 1997. Funded by Pew since 1992, the Newtown Township-based program aims at connecting volunteers of all ages with elderly residents of Delaware County who need help with housework, yard work, grocery shopping, transportation to doctors, etc.
10 Years Ago – 2011:
The 8.9magnitude earthquake that caused massive flooding in Japan Friday produced “apocalyptic” devastation, according to one Delco resident living there. “One road literally looks like that scene in ‘Superman’ where the California road just breaks in half and the car almost falls in,” Samantha Landau – daughter of county Democratic Chairman
David Landau, studying for a comparative literature doctorate at International Christian University in Tokyo – told her uncle Robert in an email, assuring him of her safety.