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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1917
Page
7
Hershey in Derry Township began as farmland and grew into a modern industrial town in the Lebanon Valley. By 1915 it boasted a 40,000 attendance at a single event, 8,500 acres of farms, 75,000 quarts of milk used in the chocolate factory, a 150 home Model Town, a 34 department department store, and a multi-facility complex including a park, theatre, zoo, schools, libraries, and transit.
Schedules list trolley routes from Hershey to Hummelstown Harrisburg Lebanon Elizabethtown Palmyra with first and last cars varying by day. Trolleys run on the hour and half hours, trains show east and west routes with listed departure times, and cafe and bureau hours are given for the factory complex. Sunday service differs for certain legs and connections between Conestoga Traction and local lines are noted.
A nameless anecdote recounts William Wilberforce’s sister, a hunter, who hustled him to Parliament. After her stump, a supporter shouted Miss Wilberforce forever, to which she replied she did not wish that title forever, reflecting humorous vanity of the era.
The Host suggests sending cigars to the Front and the Victim asks how to ensure Germans receive them, implying wartime distribution doubts.
An outspoken national voice for single tax argues five percent own most land, farms are growing in size, and wages fall with land monopolization. The piece urges farmers to heed land ownership issues, calls for new leadership, and predicts the era of cheap land is over, urging purchase now.
A historical guide explains age estimation by horse teeth, detailing milk and permanent teeth progression from birth to older age. It covers cup wear, tooth size changes, and how to spot bishoping, with notes on when age becomes unreliable past 12.
Official statistics rank Pennsylvania seventh in farm output, with a total yield near 300 million dollars. Texas leads due to cotton, Iowa grows grains, Illinois, Nebraska, Georgia, Kansas follow, and Oklahoma sits eighteenth.
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