Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1921:
An aftermath of the horrible Third Street bridge accident in Chester, which occurred on Saturday night, September 10, when 24 persons lost their lives, developed in Media yesterday, when state Sen. Albert Dutton MacDade started three suits for damages against Delaware County. The damages asked for in the three cases total $85,000. In each case, the plaintiff avers that the county of Delaware was negligent, because there were no proper guard rails, improper lighting, and that the persons who were downed in two of the cases and the one who was injured had been proceeding lawfully over the bridge.
75 Years Ago – 1946:
The forthright young Republican leader, Harold E. Stassen, ex-governor of Minnesota and veteran of Navy battles against the Japanese, told two jampacked Delaware County audiences Tuesday night that the Republican Party is being called on to unify the nation in this crucial post-war period. Going into the home stretch on a speaking tour which has taken him from coast to coast, Stassen spoke at an overflow meeting in Yeadon Borough Hall, then dashed to Swarthmore High School auditorium.
50 Years Ago – 1971:
Hoy’s 5 & 10 Cent Store, 239 Concord Road, Aston, in the Village Green Shopping Center, was robbed about 11 a.m. Saturday. Police reportedly chased the suspects on Pennell Road into the Twin Oaks area of Upper Chichester and had them cornered in a house and were using tear gas to get them out.
25 Years Ago – 1996:
Many ghosts were roaming Penn State Delaware County Campus and they had nothing to do with Halloween. What they had to do with was drunk driving. These ghosts symbolized highway fatalities associated with DUI. It was a sobering activity for most of the student body, especially for students who volunteered to have their faces painted white and wear a sign that said “I’m dead.”
10 Years Ago – 2011:
For most people, Saturday’s snow made for good conversation and an excuse to push some slush down the sidewalk. For Linvilla Orchards, the half-inch storm was a business killer on one of the busiest days of the year. “Normally on a Saturday in October there’s probably 20,000 people here,” said Wayne Matsinger, Linvilla’s farm market manager.