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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1916
Page
2
Hershey calls on every citizen to join the Volunteer Fire Company as a broad recruitment drive begins. After four recent incidents the department seeks frank improvements and invites public interest. With strong community support and skilled leadership it aims to strengthen discipline and organization and make the group a social as well as emergency center ahead of the big fair in May.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler argues in Philadelphia that the nation seeks decisive leadership to express political conviction and moral purpose. He compares modern leadership to Lincoln and urges parties to present their best candidates for the coming presidential election.
Located in Derry Township Dauphin County in the Lebanon Valley Hershey is a flourishing company town with a 1903 start and a 1915 crowd of 40000 at the park. It features a vast chocolate factory farms school library theatre zoo park and extensive public works and transportation.
The essay argues farmers hold a central role in national defense and economic support. It notes farmers supplied much of the fighting in crises, stresses self sufficiency, and contrasts American farm labor with European mobilization, praising rural patriotism and resilience.
A traditional poem offers marriage timing by month. It links favorable outcomes to months like May and June while warning of hardships or changes in other periods. The verses blend advice with seasonal imagery and moral tone.
A fragment from the Christian Register mocks men who use grand words to seem impressive yet lack real substance. Uncle Eben criticizes flashy talk as hollow performance.
A registered package from New York sent $30,000 to the U S treasury conscience fund in the largest donation to date. An unsigned Philadelphia dated letter, mailed from New York, explains the sender has restored $80,000 in total, with a note admonishing thieves and prohibiting any claim to the money. The fund stood at $495,933 on March 1, with the previous high of $18,000 linked to customs fraud.
Bureau of Navigation figures show 400000 crossed the Atlantic last year with 250000 aboard belligerent vessels and 150000 on neutral ships. More than half traveled eastbound, Italian ships carrying the most. Only 38000 passengers were in first class while 270000 went steerage.
An $8000 firehouse is to be built by the Union Hose Company of Annville. Miss Anna Borgner of Lebanon picks a pear blossom in her yard at Lititz. Lititz voters approve borrowing $95,000 for a new school building by a 173 vote margin. J Henry Miller of Lebanon, 82, serves his 53rd year as secretary of an insurance company. Postmaster H S Noblet of Halifax plans retire in May as three Democrats announce bids Henry R Shoop M W Etter and John C Miller. Pleasant View seeks annexation to Harrisburg. Edward W McElroy, Civil War veteran, is last Marietta prisoner from Salisbury prison pens to return in 1865. He is now 77, with 16 of his 17 comrades having died. most lived to 70.
Broncho Bob notes Crimson Gulch seem open after a demonstration. The crew admits they miss the old habit of being wicked and entertaining visitors who deride them, saying they feel slighted by their newfound respectability.
A Denver sociologist asserts red headed women are weaklings in a statement that drew strong reaction from readers and a counterpoint urging fair discussion. The piece notes public response and editorial stance on the remark.
The document lists detailed trolley times for Hershey Hummelstown Harrisburg Lebanon Elizabethtown Palmyra Trummelstown and connections. It gives first and last car times on Sundays and weekdays and specifies hourly and half hour departures with cross-town transfers and special notes for Hershey connections.
A dense schedule lists cafe meals, employment bureau hours, information office hours, factory visitor times, store, drug store, market, bank, library, gym and welfare hours, barber shop, theatre, zoo, post office lobby, and money order windows. Some entries note Sunday closures and holiday exceptions.
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