Steelton to stage big boxing bout
Steelton promoter Joe Barrett brings a championship welterweight bout to Roberts Brothers Garage on Thursday January 1. Johnny Gill of Pennsylvania faces world champion Jack Britten in a ten round title fight in Steelton with seating for 3500. Local bouts include Little Jeff vs Micky Devers and Kid Richmond vs Dick Gotwalt. Tickets on sale at Fairlamb’s, Ye Smoke Shop, and in Harrisburg and York. Referee Harry Trout of Milwaukee oversees the Gill Britten fight.
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Joe Barrett
Steelton
Johnny Gill
Pennsylvania
Jack Britten
Roberts Brothers
Britten
Gill
Little Jeff
Micky Devers
Allentown
Devers
Paskos
Kid Richmond
Dick Gotwalt
York
Fairlamb
Harrisburg
Gill-Bretten
Harry ‘Trout
Milwaukee
Wis
Hershey High to Oppose Alumni in Weekend Games
Hershey High School plans a varsity vs Alumni basketball clash for Saturday afternoon December 3 on the Men’s Unit floor with a possible girls game featuring Virginia Hershey Myrtle Hershey and others. Admission is twenty five cents.
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Hershey High School
Landis
Shenk
Ebersole
Wirth
Long
Virginia Hershey
Misa Myrtle Hershey
Hershey Chocolate Company Grants 10 Percent Pay Increase
Announcement from Hershey Chocolate Company officials shows an additional ten percent compensation for all employees employed at year end 1919 across multiple Hershey companies and related firms. Checks will be issued with payrolls. this is a 1919 year specific measure, not a general raise for subsequent years. The article also notes Nathan Behrin breaking a shorthand speed record at 24 words per minute with two errors. The Swatara American Legion meeting is set for January 5. the Hershey-born Theodore Leib suffered a broken finger at Goodyear in Akron, Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hershey Chocolate Company
Hershey Trust Company
Hershey Water Company
Hershey Electric Company
Lebanon Creamery Company
Hershey Transit Company
Hershey Department Store
Hershey Bell Telephone Company
Hershey Condensing Company
Hershey Industrial School
Nathan Behrin
Supreme Court of
New York County
Certified
Theodore Leib
Hershey
Goodyear Rubber Company
Akron
Ohio
Fritz Kreisler to Perform in Harrisburg Monday Evening
World renowned violinist Fritz Kreisler will play at the Chestnut Street Auditorium Harrisburg Monday evening January 5. Mail orders to C M Sigler Co Harrisburg. Ticket prices 1.00 to 2.50 plus war tax. The program includes works by Brahms Schubert and Beethoven along with salon pieces and arrangements by White Hochstein and Kreisler.
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Fritz Kreisler
Chestnut Street
Harrisburg
C. M. Sigler Co
N. Second Street
War Service records sought by Hershey Post
Ivan L. Mease of Hershey Post American Legion reports receiving War Service blanks from State Headquarters. The drive, coordinated with the Pennsylvania Historical Society, aims to compile Pennsylvania’s war records by distributing forms to all service members and non members. The Local Claim Committee includes Mease, Weishaupt, and Fidler.
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Ivan L. Mease
Hershey Post
American Legion
War Service
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Historical Society
Legion
Mr. Mease
Harold M. Weishaupt
Alan R. Fidler
Hershey Olivets Sweep Two Games Over Ephrata Five
Hershey Olivets defeated Ephrata five two straight games on back to back nights 38 to 25 and 41 to 25 on Hershey floor. Harrisburg Galahads loom next with Gebhard Storey Wolfe Cobaugh Rexroth and Wallower among expected contributors as strong fast team play is anticipated.
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Ephrata
Hershey Olivets
Hershey
Olivers
Hershey Lads
Hershey Boys
Galahads
Harrisburg
Galahad
Gebhard and
Storey
A. BE. PF
Wolfe
Cobaugh
Rexroth
Wallower
Independents
Silver wedding anniversary at Penbrook church
Mr. and Mrs. BE Grant Cassel celebrated their twenty fifth anniversary with about 125 friends and relatives. The couple were the first married at St Andrew's Reformed Church in Penbrook and were joined by relatives from Harrisburg and nearby towns.
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BE. Grant Cassel
Casse
Catherine Henry
Penbrook
Cassel
St. Andrew's Reformed Church
Frank N. Kerr
Reformed Church Seminary
Lancaster
Harrisburg
Lebanon
Steelton
Hershey
Middletown
Linglestown
Palmyra
Res
J. FB. Brants
Win. I. Potterger
J. Spayd Bomerger
Mer
A. S. Stauffer
Christ Moyer
John Bomberger
W.8
Corpman
Ida B. Hess
Win. Marberger
Oliver Mark
Mauffair
Isaac Shelly
Morris J. Henry
Warner S. Mark
Gordon S. Mark
Frank Goerner
Ngene Bell
Cope
Adam Bachman
Charles Templin
Monroe Keal
John Gerber
Michael Henry
Kelward Crum
Sarah Thomas
Sewell D. Fishburn
George W. Teary
Herbert T. Heary
Minnie Neidig
Mary N. Teary
Ada V. E Heary
Mary M. Lingle
Henry
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Hershey High
Junior
Swatara Post
Hummelsdown
Historical Society
Tec
Abe Vibaldo
GB. Viott
Rimatey- Norsahoff
Rosamunder
Schubert
Charles
Vahlex
Kretaler
CC. White
Wally
David Hochstein
Hershey, Pa
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