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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1983
Page
6
Domenica Mamie Pennestri born June 23, 1915, was chosen from 12,238 entries to win 508 in the Daily Times Birthday game. widow Demetrio Pennestri, mother of Maria, plans to apply the prize to a 2000 school tax bill due in August.
District Justice Thomas L. Lacey ruled the Darby couple must pay $332.50, 25 percent of their $1,330 delinquent rent, and evicted them after finding the apartment only partly habitable due to rat infestation and a leaking toilet. Landlord William R. Levengood sought payment while noting welfare and heat reimbursements. the couple, Charles Temple and Agnes McCullough, faced 30 days to find new housing. The hearing also included a long inserted birthday game notice from The Daily Times.
In Sharon Hill a tenant told a district justice he caught many rats and stored them in glass jars to illustrate a pest problem. Charles Temple, of Main Street, blamed rats entering his kitchen through a wall as he argued over a landlord-tenant dispute. He said he has used an axe and slingshot to kill the invaders.
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