Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1917:

Join the Army – of welldressed, custom-tailored men who have their clothes made to order Stout’s. Headquarters in 16 cities for good clothes. Visit the Chester location of Morton C. Stout & Co. at the YMCA corner of Seventh and Edgmont.

75 Years Ago – 1942:

Accommodating a stranger with a match cost Roscoe Johnson, of Second and Market streets, Chester, $15 early yesterday. Johnson informed police that he was on his way home from work at a riverfront industry and, crossing Second Street Bridge, was accosted by a stranger who asked him for match. As Johnson put his hand in a pocket, the stranger pinioned his arms, went through his pockets and removed $15 in bills. He ran and outdistanced pursuit. Police searched the locality but found no trace of man answering his description.

50 Years Ago – 1967:

A dead ship dock at this city’s dead port. It was the German-built Caldas, a, 259-foot cargo vessel which burned last month off the New Jersey coast. It docked at Chester Tidewater Terminal at the foot of Thurlow Street. The docking was the first at the terminal’s lone ship pier in more than five years. The ship will remain here until its owners can figure out what to do with it. 25 Years Ago – 1992: A Collingdale man was contrite and tearful as he pleaded guilty to thirddegree murder and was sentenced to 4 to 10 years in jail for hurling a beer bottle, which led to the death of a Temple University law student. The 24-year-old had been out on probation at the time, stemming from another altercation which also involved an assault with a beer bottle. Assistant District Attorney John Reilly said the man throw the bottle at the victim – a Wilkes-Barre native and father of three – following an altercation with other men that the victim had nothing to do with.

10 Years Ago – 2007:

Some feel U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, D-7 of Edgmont, is a little too green when it comes to fighting the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA released its most recent Noise Mitigation Report, reducing the number of residents impacted by a redesign to 7,000 from 115,000. “These 7,000 are probably us,” Ridley Park Mayor Hank Eberle said. Both he and Ridley Township resident David Gorbey question if Sestak’s freshman status contributes to the situation Delaware County faces.