100 YEARS AGO – 1908

Dr. Harry Kershaw of the Park Pharmacy at Third and Highland, Chester, while down in the cellar of the store, butted his head against a beam and the result is he has an elevation of the cuticle caused by an interior swelling near the skull.The new Fairland moving picture theater opened at Diamond Street and Baltimore Avenue, Clifton Heights. Robert Holt is proprietor of the place that will seat 160 people. The place is well ventilated and in addition to moving pictures there will be vaudeville shows

75 YEARS AGO – 1933

Mrs. Lewis Citrenbaum of Garden City and her children, Cina and Monroe, have returned after visiting Mrs. Citrenbaum’s parents in Summerville, N.J.The Chester YMCA has donated a number of steel athletic lockers to the Chester Boys Club at Front and Concord avenues. The lockers had been at the YMCAState police are searching for two bandits who held up a riding instructor at the Brinton Lake Club in Concord. They escaped with $15.

50 YEARS AGO – 1958

The assembly plant of Ford Motor Co. in Chester returned to full-time production of 1959 cars and station wagons. Work at the plant had been suspended because of a shortage of materials.Some $350 worth of golf clubs, balls, tees, bags and other equipment and $10 in cash were stolen from the office of the Valley Brook Driving Range on Wilmington-West Chester Pike. The range is operated by William Boucher.

25 YEARS AGO – 1983

A threatened strike by workers at the county’s Fair Acres Geriatric Center in Lima was averted after marathon negotiations. Details of the tentative agreement were not divulged.Michael P. Fletcher of 248 E. Winona Ave., Norwood, has been awarded the Eagle Scout Medal. He’s a member of Troop 174 in Norwood.“The Fighting Tigers” is the name of the new boxing team at the Salvation Army Community Center at 151 W. 15th St., Chester. Dennis Shaw, a boxer and trainer, runs the program.

10 YEARS AGO – 1998

Clyde and Marian McCleaft of Aston observed their 50th wedding anniversary with a party at the Aston American Legion. Clyde (Sonny) is a retired operating engineer and his wife is retired from the Penn Delco School District.

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