Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917: So great was the crowd and so great was the demand for foodstuffs at the opening of the Farmers’ Curbstone market this morning at Eighth and Welsh streets, Chester, that hundreds of prospective buyers were turned away. With appropriate exercises, the market place was officially opened at 6 o’clock after a brief address by Mayor Wesley S. McDowell. Two hours later there was little produce for sale.
75 Years Ago – 1942:
CIO liquor store clerks today threatened to shut down every state store in Pennsylvania unless Gov. Arthur H. James reinstates them. The union charges that the governor yesterday locked out clerks in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh as a punitive measure for their one-day work stoppage Saturday in order to draw public attention to demands for a 20 percent wage increase to meet the high cost of living. Union leaders said a comparison revealed that the minimum salary of $100 a month paid clerks in Pennsylvania is the lowest in the 14 states where the state holds a liquor monopoly.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
Several fire companies and state police responded to a fire late this morning at the county’s Broadmeadows Prison. Unofficial reports said that a deep-freeze motor caught fire around 11:30 a.m. No prisoners were removed from the prison.
25 Years Ago – 1992: A fire that started on the roof of the historic Dilworthtown Inn in Birmingham yesterday caused an estimated $1.5 million in damage to the 238-year-old restaurant, officials said The smoky blaze began about 3:06 p.m. When the first firefighters arrived, about a third of the roof was engulfed in flames, according to Concordville Fire Chief Steve Cooper. It took firefighters from 20 companies – 13 from Delaware County and seven from Chester County – over three hours to control the blaze.
10 Years Ago – 2007:
Parkside Borough Council Vice President Shirley Purcival recently invoked a protest from American history in claiming “taxation without representation,” citing the continued lack of a Penn-Delco School Board member to represent Parkside interests. Parkside did have the representation of former board member earlier this year, until she resigned amid the political firestorm that has engulfed the district. The current mix of the nine-member body consists of seven directors from Aston and two from Brookhaven.