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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1910
Page
5
A zoo article notes Hershey Park Zoo acquiring a possum family, including a mother and ten young, praised by keeper Mr Zimner. The park’s menagerie also lists bears prairie dogs Angora flock pheasants peafowl and fox squirrels. A resident of Myerstown offers rattlesnakes but they are not desired.
Rumor says the Reading railroad will install screens in passenger coaches to keep out coal cinders ejected by engines. It aims to prevent passengers from appearing as coal mine workers and protect eyes from cinders.
Billy Kicker recalls two boys Henrich and Boscow who sight Halley's comet from a church in 1910. They fear discovery on Sunday as they wander in fear and later confess to neighbors, promising a good tale for a long evening.
The month just past was the driest July in fifteen years at the weather bureau with 1.41 inches of precipitation, slightly wetter than 1895’s 1.16 inches. A single rain event last Thursday brought sixty six hundredths of an inch, preventing it from being the driest on record. The mean temperature was 76 degrees, 13 degrees above normal, with a 93 degree high on the ninth and 60 degree low on the twentieth. There were 15 clear days, nine partly cloudy, and seven cloudy.
A 1900s style note explains a low cost milk cooler using a wooden box and tin pail. By nesting two pails inside with sawdust and newspaper insulation, and adding a small amount of ice each morning, milk stays cold and safe for babies despite limited ice.
A quirky anecdote describes Liszt as a devotee of a cold cigar that he chewed during playing. Mas senet notes the abbe could not perform without a cigar in his mouth, but he never lit or smoked it. He munched the cigar between notes until the piece ended.
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