Rust and wear to send 'Mighty Mo' to dry dock

Pearl Harbor monument will be gone for three months.

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - "Mighty Mo," the World War II battleship best known for hosting the formal surrender of Japan in 1945, is heading to the shipyard for repairs.

 

Inquirer Anniversary: A blow to Camden, but dreams persist

The soup-can water towers of Campbell Soup Co. that for a century have dotted Camden's skyline have been a symbol of the company's presence, even as other corporate citizens fled the city or closed.

 

Inquirer Anniversary: New life for a 'dead-end island'

BRIGANTINE, N.J. - When John Rogge came here in 1946 to raise his family and start a small development company, there were only 250 homes on this island.

 

Inquirer Anniversary: Croces capture time in a bottle

Jim and Ingrid Croce are waiting to be discovered. They are in no great rush for they - and just about anyone who's heard of them - feel it's only a matter of time.

 

Inquirer Anniversary: Civil-rights standoff in Levittown

Despite the presence of a detail of 12 uniformed State troopers, a crowd of several hundred residents of the Dogwood Hollow section of Levittown last night milled around the home of the first Negro family there for the third consecutive night.

 

Inquirer Anniversary: A favorite son returns in triumph

Staid old Philadelphia opened its warm and tender heart last night to give its returning native son and world's rowing champion, Young Jack Kelly, a royal reception.

 

Inquirer Anniversary: Baseball's Mack at dawn of the '40s

The setting sun, a copper seal upon another year and another decade in that long and abundant life, slipped behind familiar housetops as we concluded another call on Connie Mack.

 

Inquirer Anniversary: End of an era for a grand hotel

The time-honored, historical Continental Hotel, of Philadelphia, closes its doors forever on September 2. That is the end of one of the landmarks of America, for immediately its fine old furniture will be pulled out, the grand stairway dismantled and then the workers will begin tossing down its stone walls, until the hostelry that entertained the Prince of Wa

 

Inquirer Anniversary: An ill-timed boot spells Phils' doom

Say! for the love of Mike, who slipped our goat to Roger Bresnahan this season? For aeons and aeons have we been accustomed to viewing the St. Louis baseball team as a nice bunch of juicy ensilage on which to fatten our percentage in the official averages. ...

 

Inquirer Anniversary: Mapping 'the people's greatest boon'

By the construction of the proposed boulevard from City Hall to Fairmount Park, Philadelphia will leap in beauty and attractiveness ahead of every city in the country. It will be the peer of any city in Europe.

 

Inquirer Anniversary: Few beds for homeless in 1890s

To mark the 180th anniversary of its founding, The Inquirer is reprinting an article from its archives every Monday for 18 weeks. Today’s offering, the eighth in our series, was published on Jan. 25, 1893, and describes the challenges of dealing with the city’s growing homeless population. The story includes an early census of “wayfarers.”

 

Inquirer Anniversary: Mayor King was a man of letters

'I have read the article your paper contained today on the fortune tellers," said Mayor King yesterday to an Inquirer reporter, "and I agree with the opinion there expressed that great harm is done by that class in the community. I shall take th

 

Inquirer Anniversary: A struggle and a celebration

After years of care, labor and vast expenditure of money, the men - chiefly citizens of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania - shall witness today, in the opening of the Great Exposition, the triumph they have wrought so faithfully and unselfishly to win.

 

A bridge not too far

A large and enthusiastic mass meeting of the citizens of Camden was held last evening at the new Court House, to take action in reference to spanning the Delaware river with a bridge, at some point between Camden and Philadelphia.