Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1919: Chester’s stock of canned lightnin’, rum, booze, thirdrail, etc. - its nomenclature depending upon the fancy of the individual - is going on a trip. This was learned this morning during a conversation with an ex-liquor dealer of this city. The rendezvous of the liquor – whiskey, wines, etc. – is no other than Bermuda, the land that has made the onion famous. With only a few days remaining before the national prohibition law becomes effective, the owners of the stock were obliged to adopt quick means to insure themselves against a dead loss. 75 Years Ago – 1944:
Judge John E. McDonough was reported to be “weaker” this morning at his home, 712 E. 20th St. The Orphans’ Court jurist, who was 71 on Christmas Day, suffered a heart attack two weeks ago. His condition is critical.
50 Years Ago – 1969:
Some Delaware County motorists who parked their cars in Friday’s soft slush found today that belowfreezing temperatures had packed their tires in ice. The subfreezing temperatures followed in the wake of the first major snowstorm to blanket the county this year. Overnight temperatures in the mid20s packed the snow and left a ragged case on side roads. 25 Years Ago – 1994: A Philadelphia man who tried to rob Paul Revere’s Pizza in Yeadon but was stopped by employees who pinned him down until police arrived was held for trial after a preliminary hearing last week. The 18-yearold is charged with simple assault, harrassment, robbery, theft, receiving stolen property and disorderly conduct after he snatched a money out of a cash box at Paul Revere’s Pizza in the 600 block of Cedar Avenue, around 11 p.m. on Dec. 16.
10 Years Ago – 2009:
The Providence Friends Meeting is celebrating 325 years of Quaker presence in Media in the physical sense of a structure, but more importantly on what has happened in the faith community during those years. The meeting had a gathering that focused on the theme, “Quaker Contributions to Freedom.” Parker Snowe, the meeting’s clerk, said Friends often met in homes of those with a strong personality and meetings would then bear the individual’s name. In the case of the Media area, history has chronicled at least three leaders, but the current Providence Meeting, so identified in 1700, grew out of the Thomas Minshall Meeting. Minshall was the recipient of a land grant from William Penn.