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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1916
Page
2
The piece notes improving angling after rain muddied streams and reports Hershey residents’ enthusiasm. It details fishing seasons for pike, salmon, yellow perch, grass bass, crappie, trout, and carp with size limits and daily quotas. It warns of penalties for Sunday fishing, early catches, explosives, gigging, nets, and outlines.
The Army and Navy Journal urges strict physical exams before any unit is sent south for border duty. It cites Spanish American War figures to warn that lax testing would swell pension costs, noting 108,000 of 225,000 volunteers asked for pensions and $49,944,041,984 paid so far in this war.
George C Boldt has written Hints to Country Hotel Keepers for small country hotels and roadside eateries. He urges simple, attractively served fare and a clean, welcoming setting rather than copying city hotel menus.
A dialogue fragment shows Mr. Roxleigh asking about what comes after a mil-Hone and answering with the line The fortune-hunter. The text reads as a character exchange likely from a play or serialized tale.
The text outlines Sargon’s era circa 3800 BC, describing his humble origin, unification of Babylonia, and westward expansion to the Mediterranean, Armenia, Elam, and Arabia. It notes Naram-Sin’s reign about 3200 years later and asserts Sargon as a foundational figure in early world empires.
A playful exchange shows a recruit claiming bad eyesight and a sergeant offering literal front-line placement for a better view, highlighting wartime recruitment humor and discipline.
War correspondent E Alexander Powell, visiting Syracuse after two weeks in Mexico, describes Carranza and Mexican attitudes. He predicts a slow advance of American troops 200 miles inland, avoiding large battles, noting hardening of troops and the peril of returning home.
A Kansas City colonel tested Mexican governance by gathering 500 men for a mock straw poll. Ninety six percent backed the reigning matador of the bullring, a figure likened to Ty Cobb. The speaker argues for permanent occupation as the only way out.
A courtroom exchange features J Fuller Gloom insisting there are two sides, while the judge dismisses any alternative and proclaims there is only one side amid the debate.
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