Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917:
With three persons dead from extraordinary causes, and a fourth believed to have committed suicide, this city’s casualty list from the weekend was in keeping with the ghastly record of the past few weeks. Several are in the hospitals suffering from serious injuries. The accident list was augmented by two deaths this morning: A man was struck on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks this morning and died within an hour; a 62-year-old West Second Street woman was stricken by heart failure at her home and died within a few minutes, her family finding her in her bedroom.
75 Years Ago – 1942:
Permission was granted today to City Center Realty Co. for the construction of 12 two-story dwellings from 36 to 53 South Eyre Drive in Eyre Park. The departure of some 275 men for final examination and induction into the U.S. Army brings to about 4,000 the number of Chester men serving in the nation’s armed forces and women in the WAACS and WAVES.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
A woman sales clerk was bitten when she attempted to detain a young woman shoplifter for arrest, second time in as many days that a woman shoplifter tried to bite her way to freedom. After a woman allegedly tried to steal three pairs of shoes from Louis Goldberg’s store at 14 E. Seventh St., a 21-year-old clerk chased and caught the woman at Eight and Sproul streets, but was bitten on the right arm in the ensuing struggle. The manager of a department store in the 600 block Edgmont Avenue was bitten on the chest Thursday by an attempted shoplifter.
25 Years Ago – 1992:
U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon, R-7, easily survived the Bill Clinton landslide yesterday, beating Democratic challenger former Media Mayor Frank Daly and Natural Law Party candidate William Alan Hickman. Political neophyte Thaddeus Kirkland won the 159th District state legislative contest against former Chester police officer, county sheriff and county councilman John Taylor by an unofficial vote count of 9,440 to 7,317. Democrat Greg Vitali scored a stunning upset over Republican Joan Genthert in the race to replace Steve Freind as state representative for the 166th Legislative District in Haverford with an unofficial vote count of 16,265 to 15,400.
10 Years Ago – 2007:
Bowing to opposition from neighbors, the Walling ford Swarthmore School Board has put the brakes on a proposal to erect a 150-foottall cellular phone tower at the rear of Strath Haven Middle School. Instead, the board has agreed to consider a different option favored by some of the residents, which would allow light standards on the visitors’ side at George King Stadium to be used as cell phone towers.