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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1912
Page
4
An OCR fragment notes Hershey Printing Company in Hershey Pennsylvania with proprietor initials M. 35 and a partial address line. The readable text identifies the business as a printer in Hershey with ownership details incomplete.
In the March American Bulletin from American Type Founders, Hershey Pennsylvania is celebrated for the Hershey Press anniversary issue published last August. The note highlights Hershey’s chocolate industry origins, the move from Lancaster to Hershey in 1905, incorporation in 1908, and a new printing establishment alongside a local newspaper. The Aug 31 edition is lauded as a fine news printing specimen with town focus and industry illustrations.
The country paper contrasts its country weekly style with metropolitan sheets whose editors and reporters are largely unknown to readers. The piece notes the tension between sensational city crime coverage and home journalistic approach.
A reflection on country weekly editors promoting clean news, dodging salacious crime, and serving readers with a wholesome mental diet. The piece contrasts metropolitan papers and praises rural editors for suppressing objectionable reports while serving rich and poor alike.
A lighthearted look at editing duties through ordinary local anecdotes. It notes small mishaps like Bill Jones cutting himself with a can opener in the pantry and a Piketon lad striking Mr Pike with a stone in an alley while other snippets recount a roof inspection gone wrong and a dog attack on a couple on a public square.
A speaker urges voters to evaluate the individual candidate over party loyalty. He uses the analogy of paying a high price for a crippled horse to illustrate potential losses and advises citizens to know the person they support. The note honors Mr. M S Hershey and references Rock Ridge.
A driver bets a policeman he was not speeding at fifty miles per hour and offers ten dollars to prove it. The officer accepts the wager, noting eleven to one against the driver, and decides against subjecting the county to a trial.
Official I C C returns show January operating revenues at 203 143 118 dollars and expenses at 158 911 489 dollars. Compared with January 1911 revenues declined by 2 886 149 dollars while expenses rose by 4 205 871 dollars.
A restaurant manager greets a customer and confirms they make their own pies. The elderly man offers a suggestion and proposes letting someone else bake the pies. The manager welcomes ideas, but the punchline is his smiling assent to the odd proposal.
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