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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1912
Page
15
Frances Evelyn Cocklin, daughter of Mr and Mrs Samuel Cocklin of Steelton, celebrated her first birthday with a shower of sixty dolls sent from distant towns via J Henry Miller and Company of Lebanon.
Various Harrisburg organizations cooperate to stage a peaceful Fourth of July observance this year with a focus on calm celebration and community involvement.
This week a convention of the Men and Religion Forward Movement is held at Lebanon. The event began Tuesday evening with a large interdenominational supper and will close with the men’s meeting Sunday afternoon. Prominent speakers from across the country are expected. Friday afternoon an Italian worker was injured at the Deitz stone quarries near Palmyra when a heavy stone struck his leg after a blast loosened it.
County Commissioners had moved the First Precinct polling place from Haefner House Derry Church to Engine House Hershey. After a second petition, Judge McCarrell ordered the polling site to remain in Derry Church, despite Hershey’s growth and depopulation concerns. Curley Maugans wrote a poem about the town’s pull between progress and tradition.
Fragmented OCR text presents a mix of slogans, political jokes, literary references, and jokes about voting, taxes, and battles. It references Derry, Hershey, Niagara Falls, Venus and Saturn, a ring, and a punchline about beating the rugs. Overall, it reads as a collage of humor and political sentiment rather than a single event.
In a terse courtroom moment Becker quips about sharpening a pencil with a razor and cleaning a pipe with hatpins as the judge presides. The exchange highlights a dry, witty legal ambiance.
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