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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1915
Page
2
The Hershey Press touts Hershey as a model city of modern homes with garages and a thriving motoring country. It highlights a wealthy, high‑grade workforce and promotes merchants, manufacturers, and auto mobile and accessory makers as advertising targets.
Detailed timetable for Hershey and connections with Hummelstown Harrisburg Lebanon Palmyra and trains. Includes hourly and half hour bus and car departures, Sunday first and last cars, cafe and meal hours, bank and store hours, and post office times.
The article argues talking aids sanity and traces insanity to loneliness. It urges neighbors to offer conversation and friendship, noting loneliness harms women most and that open parlors and visits improve welfare and happiness. The piece urges action to foster social contact.
The passage urges readers not to isolate themselves but to seek social companionship instead despite harsh penalties such as solitary confinement. It portrays the world as largely good and encourages effort to find good people, implying social resilience.
The piece estimates total world wheat output near four billion bushels yearly, split about two billion for Europe and North America. It notes war distortions in Europe, compares Civil War era U.S. crop data, and concludes life continues as crops rise, with food and clothing available to those who persevere.
The article extols the local weekly paper as essential to farmers and families. It highlights its value for township and county news, finances, politics, and neighborly connections, praising steady service and faithful reporting over bigger dailies.
Poem fragment by Mildred Stewart encouraging stepping outside to cope with trouble and find pace. It urges leaving home to face the world, promising surprising improvement as worries fade through action.
An editorial notes royal rulers show poorer health than belligerents amid the war era. It cites issues from laryngeal trouble of the German Emperor to gout in Portugal, rheumatism in Albion, influenza in the Greek King, and a melancholic Czarina, painting a dim view of monarchs’ vitality.
Medical science extends scrutiny to common insects beyond rats and flies. The ant and bee are explored as possible disease disseminators, with an investigator noting ants as potential carriers and a stingless bee in the Canal Zone linked to illness from honey produced there.
Rev. George Snavely-Rentz leads Sunday School at 9.80 a m and morning worship at 10.80. Christian Endeavor at 6.45 p m and evening worship at 7.80 p m. Wednesday prayer meeting at 7.45 p m.
Reverend N L Linebaugh leads Bible School at 9 15 A M and sermon at 10 15 A M on The Ninth Word. Junior and Intermediate hour at 2 P M and Senior Christian Endeavor at 6 30 P M. Evening sermon at 7 30 P M with Wednesday prayer at 7 45 P M and Friday choir practice at 8 P M.
John Irwin Meek leads Bible School at 9.15 a m with a main service at 10.30 a m. Choir practice is scheduled for 7.30 p m on Friday.
Rev. A. C. Forscht and J. H. Longenecker lead church notices at Reform Mennonites English Lutheran Church and Church of the Brethren respectively, detailing pastoral leadership and elder in charge duties.
The report recalls British flyers B. C. Hucks and Flight Commander C Grahame White braving high winds and artillery. Hucks survived a direct shell strike that tore a hole in his aircraft at 6,000 feet and 60 mph gale. White was pitched into the sea from 7,000 feet after a snowstorm unbalanced his plane.
The London Express notes American philanthropy during World War I includes aid to eight allied countries via money food clothing and Red Cross work. US contributions to European war funds reach 20 to 26 million dollars with over six million raised domestically. The Belgium relief commission imports food valued above 50 million dollars and the American Red Cross has sent surgeons nurses and a sanitary group to European battlefields.
The article recounts Mapplebeck, an English aviator, who was struck by shell fragments injuring his hips and leg but remained conscious. He landed safely and was treated at a base hospital where surgeons found an artery pierced yet blocked by a severed muscle. Verrier, a French expert, performed a difficult procedure to save him, while the observer suffered grave injuries.
The article tracks the spread of prohibition by 1914 noting over 62 million Americans under laws and 71 percent of U S area influenced. It highlights key states and cities where saloon territory concentrates and cites distribution across Maine Kansas North Dakota Oklahoma and more.
A humorous New York Times item juxtaposes a baby’s resemblance query with Becker’s quip that the infant looks neutral, reflecting playful dialogue in a brief column segment.
A fragment from a letter evokes a gondola voyage on Venice's Grand Canal as the writer reflects on life feeling richer and fuller at night amid the city’s evocative ambiance.
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