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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1912
Page
4
Local notice from Hershey Pennsylvania lists printing firm Hershey Printing Company with proprietor M S Hershey and associates J R Snavely and L B Harnish. It notes second class mail designation and post office entry in Hershey.
Readable chunks praise national resilience and wealth, urging humility and gratitude after lines about governors, trusts, and industry. The fragment extols iron ore, copper, silver, gold, fertile lands, and varied climate as foundations of wealth. It dismisses demagogues and calamity shouters while celebrating industrious masses.
A critique of political demagogues and muck rakers warns that noisy street clamor misrepresents public sentiment. It urges civic involvement, trust-busting, railroad wage debates, and a conservative presidential outlook tied to crop prospects and economic signs.
A call urging men to embrace gentleness and generosity in daily life. It asks men to soften words, forgive and forget, and greet others with kindness. The piece encourages improving behavior toward women and children, acting thoughtfully amid life’s storms, and being earnest and true.
The Atlantic prints John Burroughs meditation on nature titled The Summit of the Years. It presents a grand man’s testimony to earth’s beauty and life’s nobility, praising a life spent in nature away from society and reforms.
A teacher asks Harold a riddle about eleven sheep, six jump the fence, and Harold insists none remain. The exchange highlights a playful misunderstanding of arithmetic with a sheep theme.
The Hershey Free Public Library in the Y W C A Hall holds 250 volumes across fiction poetry child stories and religion with new books via the State Library Commission traveling library. Librarian Miss Ella Kegerreis operates Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoons issuing loans for up to two weeks with a one cent daily fine after due date. Contributions welcomed to support the growing collection stemming from the May Mock Trial.
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