OTHER TIMES
100 Years Ago — 1922: Louisa Merlino, 3 years old, 519 W. Second St., was treated at the Chester Hospital Friday suffering with abrasions of the scalp, as the result of being felled by an automobile near her home. The driver, the Rev. Dario Tedesco, pastor of the First Presbyterian Italian Church, third and Fulton streets, picked up the child and conveyed her to the hospital, where she was treated and sent home. The driver later reported the accident to the police.
75 Years Ago — 1947: George C. Toppitzer, leader of the McClure-Toppitzer Republican forces in Upper Darby, held a long conference here this morning with John J. McClure. Emerging from an 85-minute confab in McClure’s office on the eighth floor of the Crozer Building, Toppitzer declined to reveal what had transpired between him and the Chester Republican Boss.
50 Years Ago — 1972: Mrs. M. Lulu Craig, 1817 Edgmont Ave., Chester, who would have celebrated her 104th birthday in October, died Sunday in Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Upland, after a brief illness. Mrs. Craig was born in Chester and had lived there all her live. Her father, Lewis Ganby, had one of the city’s first retail shoe stores. She graduated from Chester High School in 1886 and was a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church, Swarthmore. She was the oldest member and an honorary member of the New Century Club of Chester. Her last husband, James Craig, was a Chester merchant.
25 Years Ago — 1997: U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R7) yesterday lashed out at House Republicans who have plotted to oust Speaker Newt Gingrich, reserving particular ire for the junior lawmakers who rode into Congress during the Republican revolution of 1994. “”They became spoiled,” Weldon, of Aston, said in an interview, adding, “”They want everything to revolve around them. And they don’t want to be team players.” Weldon said he will proudly support Gingrich during a meeting today of all 228 House Republicans, during which a full accounting of the plot to oust Gingrich is expected. “”There is no one the (GOP) conference could unite behind but Newt Gingrich,” he said. U.S. Rep. Bill Paxon, R-N.Y., who resigned from his leadership position after the coup was first reported, called Weldon yesterday to apologize for how the entire affair has played out in public.
10 Years Ago — 2012: U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., announced that Broomall resident Ryan Fulmer has received an appointment to a United States Service Academy. Casey nominated Fulmer, a graduate of Devon Prep, to attend the U.S. Military Academy as part of the class of 2016.