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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1915
Page
2
A poetic seasonal item from The Hershey Press includes a verse invoking Christmas joy and the new year. The piece speaks of blessing, wisdom, and love as gifts, referencing Youthful year and Celia Thaxter as a quoted source.
Hershey in Derry Township Dauphin County Pennsylvania centers a vast chocolate factory complex. It reports a 40 000 crowd for the 1915 anniversary with a thriving village including a model town and numerous enterprises. The district hosts a department store bank library school and trolley and train connections supporting 2 000 daily visitors and thousands more in surrounding farms and towns.
An August statement from the German Secretary of the Imperial Treasury increases the daily war cost to 82.5 million dollars, yielding an annual bill of about thirty billion. With America’s total wealth around 180 billion, the scale of loss stuns even seasoned observers as the conflagration seems un subdued.
The notice outlines detailed daily and Sunday bus and train schedules from Hershey to Trummelstown Harrisburg Lebanon Elizabethtown Palmyra and Hummelstown with first and last car times and frequent half hour and hourly departures. It lists fare and service notes for breakfast noon and dinner hours, cafe availability, and information booths.
The piece argues that nations will bankrupt as fighting continues. It criticizes Germany for issuing loans and bonds and calls the war economy a bluff. It asks who will pay interest on multiplied debts and where the global blow will land after credit runs out.
In Hershey the Christmas message highlights peace amid war, prosperity, and abundant community life. The author celebrates a year of work, health, and social well being and urges happiness through selflessness and making others glad.
A mother recounts a nostalgic Christmas tale to her child, blending a traditional nativity narrative with the crucifixion story. The verse evokes angelic hymns, shepherds, Bethlehem, Calvary, and the sorrowful yet hopeful message of Christ’s sacrifice.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a postman and a navy context with garbled phrases. Names and places are unclear, but mentions progress, postman, and a marine figure with possible wartime or postal themes. The readable bits suggest a communication or laments about legacies and younger generations.
A garbled exchange shows names Cha Judea and Geely amid disjointed lines. The excerpt hints at a misunderstanding or interrogation with phrases like you, your hon and what man.
Report from Lancaster shows residents urging the Elizabethtown to Lancaster route to shorten time. Advocates claim Hershey to Lancaster travel now under ninety minutes, with movement to curb overall run between Hershey and Elizabeth town.
Fragmentary text references editors and individuals from Mount Joy and Nowa with unclear context or complete details about Hershey Gnécol. No coherent event or outcome can be determined from the readable portion.
The party tours Hershey's facilities noting the chocolate, confections, and production areas. Guests dine, view exhibits, and sample items though some descriptions are unclear. booklet about Hershey is referenced and gate area described.
John J. Snyder presided over a gathering where speakers discussed plans for a Wivahoth town rail project and Lancaster connection. Attendees praised local industry efforts and community prospects while sharing a light reception that included stewed onions and pies.
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