Visitors barred as Hershey factory undergoes changes
Hershey Chocolate Company announces no visitors will be admitted after April 14 1917 due to alterations and improvements in the factory The notice cites safety during bustling production and rapid Cocoa Warehouse work The long list of recent visitors includes individuals from Harrisburg Philadelphia Baltimore and other towns as the plant handles busy material shipments
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Hershey
Hershey Chocolate CO
Wm. F. R. Murrie
Elda Park
Mount Joy
Gordon Platt
Harrisburg
M. Sheean
Philadelphia
R. Paul Scott
Joseph Smith
Williamstown
W. F. Fake
West Fairview
Conn
Susie M. Lawson
Union
E. E. Lawton
Miss Lawton
E. S. Gregg
Relay
Wallace Jones
Spartansburg
S. C
William North
Solvay
N. Y
James W. Sterling
Lumber City
Wm. W. Strausbach
Robert Goldman
New York City
C. H. Gardener
Lebanon
Samuel Fackler
R. W.woodruff
Selinsgrove
Mary Robins
Ada Rodenheiser
J. D. Patterson
Altoona
Margaret Patterson
Elise P. Smith
Roxborough
Sarah E. Leverich
Brooklyn
Isabella D. Hampson
Ellicot City
Mabel B. Dunning
Baltimore
A. A. Griffith
Duncannon
F. B. Greenawalt
Wytheville
John H. Parfet
Frank V. Seavers
Hummelstown
Fire Company Meeting At Hershey May First
Hershey Volunteer Fire Company schedules an important May first meeting to vote on proposed amendments to its constitution and by laws. The group will also decide on participation in the Palmyra June celebration and consider Annville’s invitation to the dedication of a new $10 000 fire house.
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Hershey Volunteer Fire Company
Palmyra
Annville
Vesper Service By YWCA Held Friday Evening
The regular weekly reaper service of the Young Women's Christian Association was held Friday evening conducted by Mika Ruth Reigler. Select readings were by Misa Jeanetta Donmeyer and vocal solos by Miss Margaret Reigler. Attendance was very encouraging to officers and members.
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Reaper
Young Women's Christian Association
Mika Ruth Reigler
Misa Jeanetta Donmeyer
Miss Margaret
Reigler
Little Farmers and Thirty Lots in Hershey
Land in East Hershey offered by Mr. M S Hershey to town boys for home farming. On Monday afternoon the first lots were apportioned with Rohrer Snavely in charge and John F Snavely assisting. Harry Haverstick laid out the lots and will advise on days to come. Each holder must supply tools and seeds. crops go to the boys.
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Hershey
M.S. Hershey
East Hershey
Rohrer Snavely
John F. Snavely
Hershey Men’s Club
Harry Haverstick
Charles McHeffey
Charles Black
Bruce Murrie
Malcolm Murrie
Harvey Leibfried
Edgar Leibfried
Charles Leibfried
Charles Robbins
Donald’ Robbins
Ira Gibble
William Leibiser
Malcolm Kieffer
Salvador Purcell
Russell Smith
Mark Henry
Joseph Bonfanti
Paul Schlepfer
Robert Bricker
Baby Day Celebrated By Hershey Mothers Club
The Hershey Mothers Club plans a Baby Day on May 4 with three meetings at the Hershey Central Theatre. President Mrs. Ezra F. Hershey directs a program of speeches music and exhibits inviting visitors from Hummelstown Palmyra and nearby towns. Admission is free with a collection to cover expenses.
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Hershey Mothers’ Club
Hummelstown
Palmyra
Ezra F. Hershey
Hershey Central Theatre
High Class Attractions at Local Theatre Showings
The Triangle Film Company brings top premieres to the local theatre with Bessie Barriscale in Bullets and Brown Eyes on Saturday and Cara Kimball Young in The Dark Silence next Wednesday. The Dark Silence features war era scenes and a strong romance thread, highlighting acting prowess and dramatic depth.
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Triangle Film Company
Bessie Barriscale
America
Miss Barriscale
Lovey Mary
Mrs. Wiggs
Ag -Lau
Assembly Dance Brings Crowd to Press Building
The first Assembly Dance in the Press Building drew large crowds from nearby towns and beyond. An orchestra from Harrisburg performed with future dances planned featuring a Lebanon orchestra and Dorothy Sellers likely at the piano.
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Inet
Harrisburg
Lebanon
Harriaburg
Misa Dorothy Sellers
Hershey High to Hold Saturday Sessions Under School Board Plan
The Derry Township School Board approved Saturday morning sessions to make up lost time with State Board approval. Exceptions exist for those needing to help families. new Manual Training and Athletics director Steven C. Leininger will join Hershey High School, which serves about seven hundred pupils in good health.
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Derry Township
State Board of Education
Steven C. Leininger
Leininger
Millersville Normal School
Penn State College
Gettysburg College
Leipinger
Hershey High School
Hershey
Smallpox Cases Reported at Steelton Plant
Evan Kulich an Austrian suffers smallpox at Steelton. Officials view it as a light attack yet a concern due to thousands of workers including many African Americans. Dr Phillips says protective measures are in place.
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Evan Kulich
Steelton
Phillips
Health authorities confront whooping cough outbreak near East Vanover
In the country around East Vanover dale vaccination and prevention efforts intensify as health officials monitor a cluster of twenty to thirty cases and work to stop spread to nearby areas.
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East Vanoverdale
Hershey Names John H. Cope Postmaster and staff
John H. Cope receives commission as Hershey postmaster and assumes duties with assistant postmaster Miss Bessie Moyer and clerks C. L. Peiffer and Miss Viola Boyer. He plans gradual changes, including possible consolidation with Derry Church PO and local free delivery, and keeping hours until 7 25 PM train mail is sorted. Cope, born January 26 1860 east of Palmyra, has long local involvement and is a church trustee.
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John H. Cope
Hershey
Bessie Moy
C. L. Peiffer
Viola Boyer
Derry Church
Harrisburg
Cope
Flershey
Mr. Cope
Palmyra
W. L. Kreider
A. 5. Kreider
J. Landis and Company
Mayor Meals of Harrisburg Dies at 66
Mayor Meals of Harrisburg died yesterday morning at age 66 after a period of illness. He was well known to many Hershey residents and local readers.
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Mayor Meals
Harrisburg
Hershey Employment Bureau Seeks Steady Workers
Men seeking good safe work with steady wages should at once apply at the Hershey Employment Bureau in Hershey Pennsylvania for available positions and guidance.
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Hershey Employment Bureau
Hershey, Pa
Hershey Red Cross Forms Local Chapter at Public Meeting
Hershey hosts a large public meeting at the Central Theatre to organize a Hershey Chapter of the Red Cross. Nearly 200 attendees from Hershey and nearby towns attend as Mrs. Glynn presides and Mrs. Mattson urges a united Red Cross effort. Forty pledges recorded with more expected. 100 members needed for chapter charter.
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Hershey Central Theatre
Hershey
The
Red Cross
Central ‘Theatre
Hummelstown
Palmyra
C. V. Glynn
George Mattson
Harrisburg
Victor F. Lecca
Lecoq
Switzerland
Galveston
Mra
Linn JH. Hanhecker
John S. Snyder
War Cost Will Hit Everyone
Secretary McAdoo outlines a broad wartime finance program totaling billions. Proposed tax changes would lower exemptions and raise rates across brackets, with additional revenue from income, excess profits, and federal taxes on rail fares and transportation. The plan also seeks bonds and various excise taxes to cover roughly half year one costs.
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America
Hershey
McAdoo
United States
Senate, Finance
House
Ways and Means
Handsome Stallion Delmar For Sale At Hershey Show
Delmar a black Percheron of aristocratic stock weighing over 1600 pounds is offered for sale in Hershey. The handsome stallion has attracted many visitors and is highly admired for his imposing presence.
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Delmar
Hershey
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