Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1921:
After introducing himself as Kris Kringle and taking a list of the things wanted by a 3-year-old child, an unidentified robber plundered the home of Mrs. Samuel Rhodes, of Glen Riddle, yesterday afternoon and secured loot valued at $1,800. Entrance of the place was secured through a front window, and after reaching the second floor, the intruder guarded against detection unloosening all the electric light bulbs from their sockets. The theft is believed to have taken place some time between 3and 5 o’clock.
75 Years Ago – 1946:
Sixty-nine $20bills. They’d come in handy right about now, wouldn’t they? For Christmas shopping. Or maybe paying off a few bills. Perhaps that’s what 25-year-old Joseph Zalewski was figuring on when he hid them in a couple of paper bags, one inside the other, in an East Side rooming house. But the police have other ideas. Zalweski was grabbed at 7.55 a.m. today by Sgt.
Mike Ruby, Patrolmen Vincent Boles and James Jardine and Park Patrolman Roy Stewart, who burst into this room with drawn revolvers and arrested him for robbing Thomas Carney’s International Hotel, Edgmont Avenue near Tenth Street, Chester.
50 Years Ago – 1971:
Chester City Council gave tentative approval today to a 1972 budget calling for reinstatement of a $10per person occupation tax and a 7.53 mill increase in real estate taxes. The hike in taxes and other anticipated revenue increases will provide an increase in spending of $899,180, much of which will go for pay raises for all city employees. 25 Years Ago – 1996: A 1990 Cadillac careened through a guard rail of the top tier of a multi-level parking garage at 69th and Sansom streets, Upper Darby, falling 29feet to the street below during the noon hour of Black Friday. The motorist, a 79-yearold Broomall man, was rescued from the vehicle by paramedics. “He apparently just entered the top tier off of 69th Street and came off at an angle through the cyclone fence and iron rail fence,” Capt. Harry Davis said.
10 Years Ago – 2011:
State Senate Majority Leader Dominic F. Pileggi, R-9of Chester, is considering a run for the GOP nod to square off against U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr., D-Pa., next year. “I have been approached by a number of people about the possibility of running for U.S. Senate,” Pileggi wrote on his Facebook page.