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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1926
Page
4
Harrisburg residents and Hershey area families are noted visiting relatives and attending events from Lancaster to Atlantic City. Readers are urged to bring or send items for a local sale plus a list of upcoming visits and excursions among numerous named families and towns.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger notes that few Pennsylvanians know their state, urging visitors and citizens to explore the Pennsylvania Building at the Sesqui-Centennial. Exhibits cover geography, natural resources, and government activity, especially Welfare and Forest and Waters departments, showing how taxpayer funds are spent.
Investigations over four years by Dr H C Corry Mann for the Medical Research Council in London show that adding one pint of milk daily to a growing boy's diet increases weight gain from 3.85 to 6.99 pounds weekly and height from 1.84 to 2.63 inches yearly, attributed to milk as essential food.
The State Health Department will open bids on September 20 for the first unit of a crippled children’s hospital to be built in Elizabethown on a 100 acre tract north of the Harrisburg Lancaster highway. The facility will serve about 500 children overall, with 100 in this initial unit, following a $150000 appropriation by the 1026 Legislature. Research staff at Pennsylvania State College cut bread mixing and baking time to 62 minutes. A western trade journal reports forty thousand grocers go out of business each year.
A Hershey Men’s Club pool room and bowling alley provide a supervised, civic minded recreation space. The piece praises the orderly atmosphere and warns against typical pool hall behavior, arguing the location offers a wholesome environment for community leisure.
Campbelltown will hold a union Sunday School picnic on Saturday August 28 at Penryn Park. Transport leaves churches at 8 AM and returns by 6 30 PM. Events include multiple age group races and games with prizes for the youngest child and oldest participant.
Derry area churches list Sunday services and programs. Derry Presbyterian led by Rev. R H Taylor with Sunday School 9 15 a m and worship at 10 30 a m and sacraments on second Sunday of September. United Brethren led by Rev A G Nye with 10 30 a m service and mid week prayer on Wednesday. Church of the Brethren in East Areta avenue Hershey with 9 30 a m Sunday School and 7 30 p m sermon. Brethren in South Water street Hummelstown with 9 a m Sunday School and 10 a m sermon. Campbelltown U B Church led by Rev S H Waltz with 10 30 a m service and 6 30 p m Christian Endeavor. Salem Reformed led by Rev Henry I Aulenbach with 9 a m Sunday School and 10 15 a m worship. Union Sunday School picnic planned for August 28 at Penryn Park.
A preliminary survey places Adams County peach yield 10 to 20 percent above last year. Picking of commercial varieties like Hales and Elberta begins late August or early September.
Amos E. Hess collector announces dates and locations to receive taxes from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Sept 7 8 21 22 at Hershey Trust building Sept 20 Waltonville Sept 24 Stoverdale Schoolhouse Sept 27 Hockersville Sept 29 Derry Hotel.
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