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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1917
Page
6
An analysis notes that grains once fed to horses may instead feed humans as Britain shifts away from horse power. It cites rising wheat acreage, falling horse numbers in the U S and global shifts to motor vehicles, and a massive jump in petroleum production aiding road and farm machinery.
A humorous domestic exchange unfolds at breakfast as a wife accuses her husband of giving up his seat to a stranger, joking that she heard him murmur in his sleep about standing pat to an Irishman.
A cautious mourner encounters Farmer Stubbs on market day. She scolds him to raise his hat to her, but he replies his wife is recently dead and he has not started looking at other women yet.
Joe Stein of Sheboygan is divorced for wife abandonment and serves two years in jail for the same reason. Tommy Wagner, who married Mrs Stein, has been sent to jail for non support. Stein and Wagner share a cell.
Edward Ewing Pratt argues that to maintain a great American export trade the U S must build direct markets for raw materials and reduce European middlemen. He cites rubber tin and coffee as examples noting shifts toward US smelting and staging centers and growth of domestic processing.
A shopper asks the bread’s value and a grocer explains the loaf, about biscuit size, is worth two cents but selling price is ten. The exchange highlights price gouging or market markup in a simple retail confrontation.
Numerous help wanted ads for Hershey Pa including factory laborers, skilled trades, cooks, milkers, painters, sign writers, and farm hands. Also positions for track repairmen, quarry and road building work, and room and board listings. Four Shetland ponies for sale and a shuffleboard for sale. Rent available on Oak street Palmyra. Apply at Hershey Employment Bureau or Hershey Men’s Club office.
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