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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1915
Page
2
The snippet lists M. S. Hershey as proprietor L. R. Meekins as editor and J. R. Snavery as manager. It provides the telephone line Hershey-Bell 211-2 with long distance connections and notes Telegraph Western Union service. It states entry at Hershey post office as second class mail matter.
The notice lists Hershey area transit times to Hummelstown Harrisburg Lebanon Palmyra and trains and postal hours. It outlines first and last cars trains and Sunday service, cafe hours, store and library timings, post office lobby hours, and mail schedules with Sunday closures.
A lively summer notes Hershey is poised for growth despite global war. The town boasts a leading food manufacturing base, widespread national advertising, and rail gateways. plans include a grand Convention Hall, weekly draw, and new trolley lines to Elizabeth town and Ephrata linking to Lebanon. Thousands are already visiting for entertainment.
The article touts a lively summer in Hershey with an improved Park and Zoo, daily Amphitheater performances except during the Church of the Brethren Conference, and a lineup from the Hershey Band and other groups. Motor tours are encouraged to stop for food shows and sightseeing in a safe family friendly resort.
The piece urges readers to support President Wilson after Germany’s submarine campaign and the sinking of an American vessel. It calls Germany the aggressor and praises measured, firm response while emphasizing national unity and restraint.
A health column argues sixty two percent of patent medicines are laxatives and advocates diet reform. It urges Hershey farmers and the People’s Market to grow and sell more vegetables, noting seventy five percent lack sufficient greens and linking indigestion and related deaths to poor diets.
A reform worker claims women now drink more as temperance spreads and two thirds of the country goes dry. William S. Bennett notes rising female drinking while hotel interviews show not more than a decade ago. The piece blames hypocrisy and slow change, not all on women.
The Pennsylvania push for a new constitutional reform fails in the House as opponents argue four year advertising costs would total about 800000 dollars and that 175000 dollars in current session appropriations cover a deficit. Supporters claim a new constitution could avert waste and other savings, while critics say the machine men resist change to preserve the old nearly fifty year old framework.
Postmaster Eppley announced a new Postal Savings Bank policy allowing mail deposits from any U S resident aged ten or older. Accounts may be opened by individuals ten and up, including married women free from spousal control, with withdrawal on demand and government guarantees. The change follows a net national savings gain of 19 million dollars in the eight months before April 1, a sharp rise from 8 million the prior year.
Photographs indicate sun spots reappearing after eleven years and their area increasing since April and May. Scientists link spots to cooler temperatures and storms, with later forecasts suggesting spots will fade as the sun’s surface reappears and rotates.
A May arrival, the rose-breasted grosbeak, praised for its beauty and uninterrupted song, is described with vivid color notes and folklore linking it to Calvary. The bird appears in May and remains through September, distinguished from the scarlet tanager by its markings and voice.
Sunday School at 9 30 a m Morning worship at 10 30 a m Rev Alford Kelly of Harrisburg will preach on Self Control Christian Endeavor at 6 45 p m Evening worship at 7 30 p m Rev Alford Kelly of Harrisburg will preach Theme Salvation Prayer meeting led by Mr John Stoudt at 7 30 p m
Rev. N. L. Linebaugh presides with Bible School at 9.15 a.m. Sermon at 10.15 a.m. The Fourth Word theme. Junior Hour 2.00 p.m. Intermediate service 2.00 p.m. Senior Christian Endeavor 6.30 p.m. Evening sermon 7.30 p.m. Lovest Thou Me theme. Wednesday prayer 7.45 p.m. Choir practice 8.45 p.m.
Church notices list prayer and preaching times at 7.30 p m and identify pastors and congregations including Church of the Brethren Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church of the Holy Trinity Reformed Mennonites English Lutheran Church and Rev A C Forscht Ph D pastor.
A concise call to end quarrels and bloodshed. The speaker urges harmony among brothers, warning that strength lies in unity and danger in discord, attributed to H. W. Longfellow.
A patient receives three small packages from a doctor in a comical consult room scene. He reads the directions a powder for my headache a pellet for my liver and a capsule for my gouty foot. He then asks how the little beggars will know the right place to go inside.
A bag filled with naptloin suspended in a closed well or cistern drives away female mosquitoes seeking breeding sites without imparting any unpleasant taste or odor to the water.
A Liege native, faced with execution or oath to the German emperor, swore allegiance to survive. He later questioned whether Belgians had offered any real chance to resist, reflecting on power and the hand that rocks the cradle and the world.
Report from a London meeting describes widespread poverty as speaker Thornton Burke cites thousands “grinding their faces” in debt and hardship while trying to survive. A temperature advocate voices intent to arms, urging action.
A well known preacher is credited with declaring that William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, never made a treaty with the Indians and never broke one. The remark appears amid wartime era reflections on colonial diplomacy and the history of Native relations.
In a humorous hospital scene Mr. Jones wakes from anesthesia saying the procedure is over. Two fellow patients recounts of instruments left behind prompting the surgeon’s hat inquiry. The anecdote ends with Jones fainting. A separate line notes a projection that Russia’s population may reach 600 million by century’s end.
A hospital physician asks a starving patient about meals and the patient replies he can eat a small chicken but asks for it to be stuffed with another, presenting a darkly humorous exchange from the ward.
A town in Illinois hosts a tent event where a benevolent looking elder asks the ticket-taker to count the crowd as they pass. The gateman assumes it is philanthropy and responds accordingly.
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