21+ hour, 55+ min ago   (440+ words) Delco Times 100 Years Ago, 1926: Members of the Delaware County Firemen’s Association will hold a meeting tonight at the headquarters of the Brookhaven Fire Company and one of the items to be given consideration will be the question of whether Delaware…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (322+ words) Delco Times 100 Years Ago, 1926: Chester’s official participation in the Sesqui-Centennial anniversary of the Declaration of Independence was held yesterday under almost perfect circumstances at Chester Day on the exposition grounds. Nearly 5,000 residents of this city went to Philadelphia by train…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (439+ words) Delco Times 100 Years Ago, 1926: “Philadelphia and Chester have been interlinked for more than a century through the bond of friendship and industry,” Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick said in a talk to Chester citizens who are at the Sesqui-Centennial today observing…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (437+ words) Delco Times 100 Years Ago, 1926: Captain Robinson, taking cognizance of complaints registered with the police department by business people in the vicinity of Third and Dock streets, regarding the corner lounging practice of a group of men, day and night ordered…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (428+ words) Delco Times 100 Years Ago, 1926: The fall term of public schools in Chester opened at 8.30 o’clock this morning, enrollment of 8,784 pupils being reported for the first day. In the majority of the school, the day will be given over to organization,…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (333+ words) Delco Times 75 Years Ago, 1951: The Melrose Homes development in the first ward struck another snag today. Chester Planning Commission, meeting at City Hall, discovered it has never approved plans for the 70 row homes in an area bounded by 15th and 16th streets,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (424+ words) Delco Times 100 Years Ago, 1926: Announcement was made yesterday from the offices of Robinson and Copay, local real estate dealers located at Sixth and Welsh streets, of the sale of the tract owned by George D. Armstrong, containing 57 acres in Chester Township…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (445+ words) Delco Times 100 Years Ago, 1926: The change of the name of the Edgmont Theatre here to the Stanley Theatre of Chester, along with a complete new picture policy, to be inaugurated at the time of the fall opening of the theatre…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (431+ words) Delco Times 100 Years Ago, 1926: A meeting of representatives from the boroughs along the Chester Pike, from Eddystone to Darby, members of the Keystone Automobile Club, the state police force and state legislators, was held last night in the borough hall…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (433+ words) Delco Times 100 Years Ago, 1926: A new order issued by Chief of Police Vance today, it is believed from results already noted, will prove thoroughly successful in regulating traffic at principal intersections. Traffic officers are now operating the traffic light controls…...