This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 18 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
4
A Hershey Press date 1916 piece echoes the flag’s passage with a poem by Henry Holcomb Bennett and a broader note on the United States size and effort to conquer and pacify vast territories. It frames national resolve, duty, and the cost of war for a growing nation.
An official replies to criticism of the Philadelphia and Reading schedule noting the Hershey express at 11.07 will stop for passengers. Readers urge all Reading passenger trains to halt at Hershey, citing missed connections and the station’s profitability on both eastern and western runs.
Hershey reports a major expansion with two dozen new or under construction residences, the completed Hershey Press Building now a showcase, Park improvements including fountains and pillar work, a restaurant for 1000, a revamped Zoo, and significant factory growth. The expansion also includes a carbarn, new cars, and a Elizabethtown rail line opened since last summer, with notable farm and area progress enhancing the overall development.
A congressional committee prepares a 25 million dollar measure to fund mobilizing, equipping, and transporting the National Guard to the Mexican border as intervention costs rise. Estimates place total costs in the hundreds of millions, with thousands of Pennsylvania troops promised to serve as state spokesmen. Mexico spans about 1942 miles.
The piece declares the end of the Progressive Party and a full reunion of the old Republican camp behind Hughes and Fairbanks. It notes Wilson’s minority victory in the last election and predicts a clear clean fight between two tickets as observers await clearer signals. Republicans rally with renewed vigor behind Hughes.
Poem inviting readers to abandon study for a day of nature in June. It praises meadows bobolinks and streams, and urges immersion in the natural world. The speaker contrasts human learning with nature and invokes Sappho and divine natural beauty.
Mr and Mrs Harvey Basehore of Hummelstown hosted a wedding dinner Sunday at Addison Martin's home in Derry Church. Guests traveled from Hummelstown Vian Bachmanville Elizabeth town Middletown and Derry Church. Gifts of cut glass and linen were received. Attendees included Mr and Mrs John Basehore Miss Anna Martin Miss Barbara Martin Jerry Martin Mela Martin Mrs Eshelman Miss Mary Gingrich John Palmer and Mr and Mrs Adam Garman.
Hershey in Derry Township Dauphin County Pennsylvania has grown from farmland to a thriving industrial town. By 1915 it boasted a vast chocolate factory farms 8500 acres 28 dairies 150 homes in Model Town and a large transit and public service network including a 800 seat theatre 36 miles of trolley and a 1500 seat park theatre with many facilities.
Public transport timetable outlines Hershey area trolleys to Hummelstown Harrisburg Lebanon Elizabethtown and Palmyra with first and last cars varying by route Sundays add connections. Interchanges at Elizabethtown Hershey Harrisburg and Palmyra enable connections to mounting trains while cafe and service hours run daily with offices open restricted Sundays.
Rev. N. L. Linebaugh leads Bible School at 9.15 and sermon at 10.15. Junior and Intermediate Hour at 2.00, Christian Endeavor at 6.30 with a 7.30 sermon. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7.45. U P S C E special business meeting Friday 7.45. All members urged to attend.
Sunday School at 9.30 a m Preaching at 10.30 a m and 7.30 p m Christian Endeavor at 6.45 p m Wednesday evening regular prayer meeting and choir rehearsal.
Help wanted ads offering farm hands milker and dairy labor positions at Hershey Employment Bureau. cooks and factory workers. laborers for outside work. basement helper. meal and school staff. Also sale of a 460 gallon Bowser tank and curb pump outfit, fresh cow with calf, and rental listing at Palmyra with seven rooms. Harrisburg Auto Co quoted.
Patty Miller was badly spiked while filling in at short for Duncannon against Marysville and left the game in the fourth inning. Dearoff contributed two of Duncannon’s five hits, while Howard Romig joined Hummelstown in uniform after weeks out. Romig starred at second base as Hummelstown battled New Cumberland.
Bible School at 9 15. Sermon by Rev John I Meek at 10 30. Choir rehearsal Thursday evening at 1 30.
Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 7 30 PM Sunday School at 9 30 AM Christian Workers Meeting at 6 30 PM Preaching service at 7 30 PM.
The June issue of The Messenger from Ardmora features a group picture labeled harehall team with Clayton Sweet. Sweet previously played for the Hershey team in the Central Pennsylvania league last season.
Mrs Elizabeth Burger 60 of Tagers Town Maryland died suddenly on Wednesday at Hershey Park during the union picnic of Landisville and Salunga Sunday schools. Heart trouble listed as the cause. She was the daughter of the late John N Miller of Lancaster and survived by one daughter and five sons in Maryland and many Lancaster relatives.
The Hershey Volunteer Fire Company holds its annual meeting on Tuesday, July 11, following a holiday. Members are urged to attend the first Tuesday in July meeting rescheduled to July 11.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.