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100 Years Ago – 1922: Because of the Dominion Miller, a coal carrying vessel now at 57 South Wharves, Philadelphia, offers the most exemplary testimony of the Diesel engine, the latest device of ship propulsion, the management of the Sun Shipbuilding Company is keenly interested and alive with curiosity. So great is the attraction of this vessel to the company that has started to make the Sun-Doxford Diesel engine that Vice President Robert Haig last week went aboard her for a trip of inspection.

75 Years Ago – 1947: The McClure candidates swept into county offices on Tuesday with majorities ranging from 5,000 to 11,000 votes over the Republican Campaign Committee candidates. In a Primary Election which saw more than 90,000 Republicans cast votes in the county, the McClure-endorses candidates won the judgeship and the eight row offices. It was the largest Primary Election turnout on record in Delaware County, drawing approximately 60 percent of the registered Republican vote.

50 Years Ago – 1972: Self-service is fast becoming the American way of life. First we were allowed to help ourselves in supermarkets, then department stores and drug stores. A short time later we could wash our own cars at drive-in car washes. Soon we could wash or dry clean our own clothes at laundromats. And now countians can pump their own gas. Three of the nine gasoline pumps at the Mobile Oil. Corp Service Station at Baltimore Pike and Sproul Road in Springfield have been labeled “self-serve.” A customer must get out of his car, press a button on a speaker box installed at the pumps and say “regular, premium, or special.” An attendant inside the station releases the pump by pushing a button.

25 Years Ago – 1997: A world leader in business software has signed an agreement to purchase more than half of the ARCO Chemical Co. campus in Newtown Square, a move that will bring 2,000 jobs here during the next 10 years. SAP America Inc., the fourth largest software company in the world, has received local approval for site development of its U.S. headquarters at the ARCO campus.

10 Years Ago – 2012: Concord Supervisors held the first of a series of hearings, Sept. 4, regarding a 58-unit townhouse development on the parking lot of the former Pulsations, 240 Baltimore Pike. The Benson Companies, which presented a sketch plan in June, returned to begin the process regarding a proposed zoning amendment, conditional use and land development plan. The site, zoned C-2 Commercial, was previously approved for a 108-unit extended stay hotel.

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