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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1921
Page
6
Elizabethtown and surrounding towns feature visitors and residents at gatherings. A mix of accidents, family updates, work changes at Kreider Shoe factory, student achievements, Boy Scout camp life near Reading, and local social visits are reported. Notable events include a 85th birthday celebration for I P Balmer, a two-car collision near Swatara Hill injuring Mrs Kaylor, and Miss Dora Bell shopping in Lancaster.
Campbelltown highlights include visitors from Harrisburg Philadelphia and New Philadelphia. Families like Moyer Herring and Kreider share illness travels and church activities. Local road work, auto sales, and farm labor details appear alongside social visits and a youth event at Cressonia Park.
D M Sandy and I M Killian threshed wheat last week with Harvey Ruhl aided by George Heisey. Reuben Sandy bought a farm near Annville and plans to move soon. Sunday School outing for the young ladies at Gretna. Edwin S Yingst taught. Miss Dorothy Rengler stayed with aunt Clara Barnhart at Enola. Forty five head of fat cattle moved from B S Stauffer’s farms. H M Gruber trip to Norristown. Funeral of Rev Hahner at Dauphin attended by A R Brubaker Mrs Mary Williamson Jacob Martin John Kulp and Morton Brubaker and D B Flary family. New water pipe set on road near Wolgemutt line by Frank Albert and crew.
A humorous Old South dialogue features Nimble A Negro attempting to saddle a fractious mule. A bystander asks if the mule kicks him. The reply notes the mule does not kick Sam but sometimes kicks where he has been.
The teaching moment centers on the prodigal son parable with a quip about a fatted calf. A child named Harry responds that it is better to be prodigal than fattened, reflecting a humorous misinterpretation in a Sunday school setting.
A brief exchange notes that romances arise in work life. The remark suggests factories as a setting, with a wry aside about a match factory.
Quotation exchange hints at evolving fashion norms as skirts grow shorter. Dialogue calls for appropriate undergarments, suggesting social debate over modesty and attire. No specific people or places are named in the readable text.
A man boasts to his wife that he did three good deeds in one evening. He recounts aiding a crying young woman, giving her ten dollars after she lost money on the way to christening her baby, and claiming the change as the third deed. The tale exposes vanity in self praised virtue.
Dialogue shows Mr Slow cautioning Miss Speed about cold and risk as they proceed, choosing to travel farther into the country before wrapping up. The exchange hints at caution and prudence shaping their journey.
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