Remember When: Sewickley Herald headlines from 1927
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In the news this week 96 years ago:
• Sewickley Academy’s Upper School found a new home in the former Houston estate on Academy Avenue. The Herald’s reporter marveled at the setting:
“Immediately within the gate one is impressed with the beauty of the surroundings,” they wrote. “…beyond a clearing is seen a thick green woods where the morning sun, shining through the leaves, forms intricate designs on the forest floor. To the right a little sunken dell is rimmed by thick bushes and the driveway, bordered on the left by a concrete walk with a stepping stone effect, curves to the right over a very picturesque bridge. This bridge, with its single graceful arch is particularly striking, set off as it is by the restful green of the grass below and the shrubbery at either end.”
Teacher-to-student ratio for the 1927-28 school year was 1:11 in the Lower School and 1:12 in the Upper School.
• The radio broadcast of the 1927 World Series turned Sewickley into “the deserted village on both Wednesday and Thursday afternoons between 1:30 and 4:00,” the Herald wrote, as the Pirates took on the New York Yankees. “Groups of fans were gathered around the sets and the scores were posted” at various businesses from the local post office to the Sewickley Pharmacy and Justice of the Peace Margaret Morgan’s office. Future Hall-of-Famers Pie Traynor, Lloyd Waner and Paul Waner were in the Pirates lineup that year. Unfortunately for the Pirates, the Yankees pulled off an historic sweep of the first four games, ending Pittsburgh’s run.
• Glenfield council was beginning to confront the realities of increased car ownership as it ordered “two stop-and-go signal lights” to be installed along Beaver Street at the intersections of Center and Kilbuck Streets. Council was concerned about speeding “since completion of the new pavement” and a representative from the Brinker Supply Co. demonstrated a two-lens model with a cast aluminum frame. Each signal would have a 250-watt lamp and cost the borough $460.