Hershey Briefs and Local Happenings
Local notes report Mr Wim R Murrie buying a 1910 Packard touring car and Hershey Chocolate Company adding a Frayer Miller truck bringing total to three. Reports cover visits, promotions, park improvements, a trolley project, a vaudeville show, lost pin, a giant lemon exhibit, trips to Philadelphia and Hudson voyage, and a colleague’s streetcar accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wim. R. Murrie
Hershey Chocolate Company
Frayer-Miller
Hershey Park
The Advantage Pipe Quarrel Splits Spokesman Row
Mrs Flyabout accuses her husband of loving the pipe more than her. He retorts he can keep his pipe lit, sealing the domestic dispute in the newspaper’s comic-spread tone.
In Toyland a paper doll and china doll refuse match
A brief vignette from Chicago News describes a paper doll asking the china doll to marry. She rejects him with a sharp reply, saying he is not cut out for her and dating would never happen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Farmyard Frivolity from Pittsburg Press
A humorous Poultry dialogue features Chanticleer and the Hen Chicken debating a hat hiding a frozen comb. The exchange highlights playful wordplay and rural whimsy from the Pittsburg Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanticleer
Pittsburg Press
Stranger Sightseer Narrates Niagara Falls Meeting
A Buffalo man showed his newly arrived Scottish cousin Niagara Falls then shared a calm remark about beauty. The Scot countered with a tale from Peebles describing a wooden-legged peacock, adding a humorous local contrast to the awe of the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Niagara Falls
Donald
Peebles
Also Mentioned on This Page
Blanche DeBolt
Lancaster
Hess Bigley
Heffer Bow- Tan
Harrisburg
Jacob Wenger
Paradise
Morris Wenger
el Rhine
Geo. Eppley
Hershey Volunteer Fire Co
Palmyra
George Shearer
Thos. Black
Bert
Sylvanus Roden
Hershey
Curley Mangans
Curley
Gus Drescher
Gus
Howard E. Enders
Pardee University
Lafayette
Israel Moyer
Clarence Barnet
Mt. Gretna
H. H. Shenk
Annville
Lebanon Valley College
Daisy Klein
Chocolate Avenue
Harry Haverstick
F. B. Snagely
Philadelphia
Hudson
Robert Koppenhaver
Lebanon
Samuel Brehm
Sam
Ing
Hershey Trust Co
Hershey, Pa
Harry M. Gingrich
Cleona
Krakauer Bros
New York City
W. Eugene Miller
Main St
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