Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917: “The Chester Times posterettes are quite a work of art and the complete set of 20 covers Chester in an interesting manner. It would be an excellent bit of advertising tor Chester if all our business houses and manufacturers should obtain large numbers of the posterettes, placing one on every piece of outgoing mail, as Chester’s mail today is being delivered all over the world.” – T. Woodward Trainer, Secretary, Chester Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade. 75Years Ago – 1942: Members of the armed forces of the United States, Canada and Britain, when in inform, will receive a 10 percent discount on meals served in dining cars on 18 eastern railroads. The lower rate will apply to food totaling 50 cents or more, but will not apply to tobacco and bottled beverages.
50Years Ago – 1967: An “old-fashioned girl” was crowned “Miss Chester Centennial” Friday night to highlight the third day of the Chester Centennial Exposition. Twenty-yearold Marianne Olszewski of Brookhaven defeated seven other entries a during a 90-minute beauty pageant on Sun Center auditorium stage. The black-haired beauty spent most of Friday as the “old-fashioned girl” handing-out meat samples in the Medford’s Inc. exposition booth.
25Years Ago – 1992: A passenger ferry made its maiden voyage across the Delaware River, 40 years after waterborne service was halted between Camden, N.J., and Philadelphia. A popular means of transportation between the cities in the 1900s, ferry service ended in 1952 when the “Haddonfield” made its final journey. The ferry, which will run at least 24 times a day, is expected to draw 250,000 riders annually, many of them visitors to the recently opened state aquarium in Camden, officials said. Named the “Delawhale” by school children in Philadelphia and Gibbsboro, N.J., the ferry costs $2 for a one-way trip.
10Years Ago – 2007: Ed Aleman of Folcroft is serving in Iraq. While home on leave last week, he paid a visit to Aston Elementary School to thank two of the fourth-grade classes that wrote him letters and cards while he was in Iraq. Aleman’s two cousins, Jake and Brooke Duncan, are fourth-graders at the school. Aleman told the children in Mrs. Leiser’s class and Ms. Cameron’s class how the letters helped him through being in a war zone and away from his family.