Highland Park of Hershey Attracts Summer Visitors
The hill overlooking Hershey draws crowds this season with a moonlit view and extensive plantings. More than 50 000 evergreens and 100 azaleas plus a thousand mountain ash trees prove the landscape transformation. Native trees survive as rustic bridges span streams while the floral display features 5 000 rose bushes and asters in bloom. Sundays bring heavy trolley traffic as tourists visit the crest.
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Highland Park
Hershey
Lebanon
Moth ers Club to Hold 500 Bridge Party in Hershey
The Hershey Moths Club plans a combined 500 Bridge and Novelty Party at Park Cafe to raise funds for the public kindergarten. The event is Friday evening August 25, with games 7:30 to 10, dancing 10 to 11:30, and refreshments sold.
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Mothers’ Club
Hershey
Park Cafe
Miss Trace to Leave YWCA Post for Philadelphia Work
Miss Martha Trace, executive secretary of the Tershey YWCA, will depart September 1 to rejoin the Philadelphia Association. She will join the Garman town organization and focus on industrial girls and business women. Miss Mary Bureh heads home to Williamport after visiting Camp Nepahwin. Miss Loch will accompany her. The association currently hosts sixty one guests.
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Martha Trace
Tershey Young Woman's Christian Association
Philadelphia Association
Garmantown
Mary Bureh
Williamaport
Camp
Nepahwin
Courageous vaudeville tightrope act at Hershey Park Theatre
A young performer balanced on chair tips atop the Hershey Inn then swung between chairs before claiming he would climb the Hershey Press on Thursday. The act follows his past feats atop the Woolworth Building and the Washington Monument as part of a week of attractions including Cliff Howard and Helen Clayton skating, Oliver and Dwyer comedy, and the Creighton Horak Trio. Moving pictures, new acts, and upcoming bills fill the Hershey program.
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Hershey Inn
Hershey Press
Woolworth
New York
Washington Monument
Washington
Hershey Park
Johnny
Reynolds
Cliff Howard
Helen Clayton
Oliver and Dwyer
Creighton
Horak
Beltrah
August sets records at Hershey Park as crowds peak
Hershey Park welcomes a record month with huge crowds from Manheim and the Business Men's League. Visitors arrive by ten special trains and numerous regular trains and trolleys, dining at Hershey Park Cafe and touring the factory and state capitol. Restaurants report strong business and higher spending while the swimming pool reaches new highs.
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Hershey
Reading
Manheim
Business Men's League
Hershey Park
State Capitol
Visitors Pass Through Hershey Factory Amid Weeklong Tour List
A stream of visitors from states including Connecticut Illinois New York Ohio Indiana Maryland North Carolina and Pennsylvania toured the Hershey factory over the past week. Names listed include Max M Wild Ela Boyer James Wimer Cy Farr Anna Reddeway A Hooker Cella Klavana Meyers Mika Annetta Williamson Charles Wise Hater Roy Schwenk Roy Sehneder Goulden Robert Gunning and Aug Smith among others.
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Hershey
Max M. Wild
Hartford
Conn
Ela Boyer
Decateur
Ils
James B. Wimer
Washington
Cy C. G. Farr
Amterdam
N.Y
Anna Reddeway
Parkersburg
Hooker
Elwood
Ind
Cella C
Klavana
Denver
Colorado
W. Li. Meyrs
Providence
Mr. and
Mra
A. L. Brenner
Canton
Ohio
Mika Annetta Williamson
New York
G. Shopler
Wadsworth
Ohias
Charles Wise
D, CL
Hater
Taneytown
Robert Iy Tee
Philadelphia
Bowmann
Ralleigh
N.C. J.D
Kanaya
Hagerato
Experts admire Hershey farms on Pennsylvania tour
A party of experts from institutions and counties toured Hershey farms and dairies visiting Cloverdale and the Round Barn. They praised Hershey equipment and Mr. Hershey’s land education plan, noted asphalt floors and sawdust at the Round Barn, and completed the visit with a chocolate factory tour before continuing to Mt. Gretna and Lancaster.
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Hershey
E. S. Bayard
National Stockman
Pittsburg
M. S. McDowell
F. P. Weaver
H.H. Havner
Penn State College
F. S. Bucher
Lancaster
D. K. Sloan
Braddock
C. F. Preston
Chester
C. S. Adams
Berks
Pennsylvania
Mt. Gretna
Hershey Store Outing Attracts 100 Plus Employees
The first annual Hershey Store Company outing was held at Valley Glen Park on Wednesday with over 100 employees attending. Automobiles from multiple departments and a large truck provided transport. a noon start marked the event. The general committee, including V. N. Gingrich and J. Zoll, planned a full sports program featuring a Clerks vs Mechanics baseball game and events like racing and a swimming contest.
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Hershey Store Company
Valley Glen Park
Lumber Department
Implement Department
Grocery Department
D. Clark
Victor N. Gingrich
Ira Bacastow
J. Mark Light
David Gordon
Hull V. N. Gingrich
John R. Zoll
Mins Anna Lewis
H. J. Patten
Mechanics
Edgar Neibert
Cyrug Garman
Hershey and Lancaster Trade Tug Continues
Lancaster Intelligencer lauds county prosperity and Hershey’s growing reach as trolley plans extend to Manheim. The piece notes Hershey businessmen target Lancaster city and county trade while Lancaster residents increasingly visit Hershey for conveniences and attractions.
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Hershey
Manheim
Lancaster
Lancaster City
Intelligencer
Lancaster County
Dauphin
Lebanon
Raymond Gongloff Drowned at Swati Creek
Raymond Gongloff 25 a Philadelphia and Reading railway operator at Swatara Station drowned Monday afternoon in Swati creek. George Spire found the body near the creek bottom and Coroner Jacob Eckinger said cramp caused the drowning before aid arrived. He leaves a widow and infant son John Rupp Gongloff and was known in Hershey where he once served as night operator at the Harshiey station.
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Raymond Gongloff
Philadelphia and
Reading
Swatara
Swati Creek
George Spire
Jacob Eckinger
John Rupp Gongloff
Hershey
Harshiey Station
Swatting up on flies as Hershey fights a summer pest
Hershey faces rising fly numbers with a civic drive urging households to trap and swat. The Fly Eradication Committee calls for cleaning stables, securing garbage, and avoiding yard rubbish while Dr. Simon Flexner warns that domestic flies can spread disease and infect food.
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Hershey
Simon Flexner
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Dixon
Samuel G. Dixon
Hershey School Highlighted as Model of Rural Education
The Philadelphia North American contrasts poor rural schools with Hershey, Pennsylvania, praising the consolidated country school there. It argues modern, well equipped campuses serve farm children and act as community centers, urging reforms to prevent desertion to cities.
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North American
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Thomas D. Wood
Columbia
H. W. Foght
United States Bureau of Education
Hershey
Little City
Dia
Frankin KK. Lane
Secretary of the Interior
Folke
New Business Institute Opens in Harrisburg
Professor James H H DePue a Princeton graduate will head a new school in the Hershey Building at Front and Market Streets Harrisburg. The institute opens the first Monday in September and is funded by the Hershey Store Company. It offers direct practical training for clerical office and executive work with each student receiving a personal typewriter and desk to take upon graduation.
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M. S. Hershey Consolidated School
Derry Township
Mildred Thomas
Harrisburg
M.S. Hershey
James HH. DePue
Princeton
Hershey
Young Men's Business Institute
Dershey
Front
Market Streets
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Johnny Reynolds
Lucille Savoy
Hershey Farms
Cloverdale
The
Round Barn
Hershey and
Lancaster Intelligencer
the Intelligencer
United States
Hershey School
NEW Business Institute
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