Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1921:
George H. Ross, Commissioner of Finance of the
City of Toronto, Canada, comes to the city tomorrow as the guest of the Kiwanis Club and the city. Ross will be met at the West Philadelphia station, and brought to the city by International Trustee Elwood J. Turner. Mayor William T. Ramsey, members of City Council and other officials, and a committee of local Kiwanians will escort the distinguished visitor to the Chester Club where he will take dinner and make an address.
75 Years Ago – 1946:
While on the way to visit friends Friday evening, Mrs. Alice E. Radbill, 51, of
Moylan, prominent in civic affairs and member of the board of directors of Sunnycrest Farm in Cheyney, was instantly killed by a Pennsylvania Railroad train a short distance from her home. Mrs. Radbill was hard of hearing and it is believed she was unable to hear the warning whistle sounded by the engineman as he rounded the curve and saw her on the right of way.
50 Years Ago – 1971:
Six boxcars of a 38-car Baltimore & Ohio freight train jumped the tracks just after 11p.m. Monday in Woodlyn, killing a 20-yearold PMC student and tearing down an electric pole and high-power cables.
The noise from the derailment was hard at least 2 miles away from the scene of the accident between Fairview Road and Bullens Lane, near Youngs Avenue. PMC day student Conrad F. Kruse, 20, of Villanova, was working as a night watchman for Day & Zimmerman, Inc., who are putting up new electrical line poles.
25 Years Ago – 1996: The president lacks character, the media is biased and it ain’t over ‘til it’s over. Those were the messages delivered time and time again to the hundreds of local Republicans who began lining up before dawn yesterday outside the Lagoon restaurant for the chance to greet GOP nominee Bob Dole and to listen to the half-dozen Republican leaders. The stop in Essington was part of the Dole camp’s 96-hour, nonstop campaign marathon, which retired Joint Chiefs of Staff head Colin Powell called “the mother of all campaign trips.”
10 Years Ago – 2011:
Ridley Township commissioners recently approved an ordinance restricting clothes lines to rear yards of properties. And for good measure, residents cannot drape clothing or other laundered items on porch railings to dry.