100 YEARS AGO – 1908

Myers and Borher, the dentists at 514 Market Street, Chester. advertise they will pull aching teeth free of charge and without pain. But they might get you to buy a new artificial tooth for $5.Prof. Thomas S. Cole, the superintendent of Chester Schools, has opened a private office in the Hoskins Building at Fifth and Welsh streets Chester while an illness continues at his residence in the city. He has been prohibited from entering any school building by the Chester Board of Health because of a family illness. Prof. Cole said he doesn’t think the illness at his home is contagious, however, he must said he must follow orders of the board of health and so he opened a private office.

75 YEARS AGO – 1933

With the exception of special delivery matter and perishable parcels there will be no mail deliveries by carriers on Memorial Day. Chester Postmaster John K. Hagerty said the delivery section and stamp window will be open from 7-9 a.m. Two Chester young men, Chester Nuttall and Jack Holdsworth, both of Sixth and Penn streets, were rescued from the Delaware River when their canoe overturned. They were saved by the crew of a steamer that saw them clinging to the overturned craft.

50 YEARS AGO – 1958

A 34-year-old mail carrier named John W. Fisher, with seven children and his wife, Miriam, decided to take the plunge and go into the furniture business in the Holmes section of Ridley Township. They opened Leonard’s Furniture.
Ridley Park High School musicians are having their annual music picnic at Lenape Park in Chadds Ford

25 YEARS AGO – 1983

Aldan Police are fingerprinting all but 15 of Aldan Elementary School’s first through sixth-graders. The parents of only 15 of the school’s 256 children refused to sign permission slips for their children to be fingerprinted. The records are to be mailed to the parents.
The Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County is attempting to raise about $250,000 for a shelter for battered women and their children. Executive director is Elaine Humme of Nether Providence.

10 YEARS AGO – 1998

Rita Patel of Blair’s Forest, in Aston, donated $700 to Cardiac Services at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland. The donation was accepted by Dr. R. David Mishalove of Aston and Lynne Brooks, R.N.
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