Hershey Sanitary Milk Draws Big Round Barn Crowd
Hundreds visit the Hershey Round Barn on Sunday to drink Hershey Sanitary Milk. The dairy emphasizes medical inspection, purity, and nutrition, with profits reinvested in improvements. Milk is distributed pasteurization not required, kept cold, and priced at 7 cents a quart.
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Hershey Round Barn
Hershey Sanitary
Hershey Press
Round Barn
Pennsylvania
Hershey Industrial School
Hershey
Metchnikoff
Europe
World’s Greatest Wheat Crop Achieves Record U.S. Output
The United States produced a million bushel wheat crop this year, the largest in any country. Government estimates place the total at 1,002,020,000 bushels, about 111,000,000 above the 1912 record, while the corn crop nears maturity at 9,020,150,000 bushels, roughly 8,000,000 below the record.
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United States
Clubs Show 41 000 Increase in Agricultural Club Members
Membership in boys and girls agricultural clubs rose from 110 077 at June 30 1914 to 161 194 at June 30 1916 across 33 states with 26 states in northern central and western regions. Clubs emphasize farm and home management crop rotation soil building and self financing through profits.
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State Agricultural College
Department of Agriculture
State Colleges of Agriculture
Htaalf
Patton Named First Secretary of Agriculture in State
Charles E. Patton of Curwensville was chosen by the Governor as the first secretary of agriculture under the new State Commission of Agriculture. Patton, a former congressman, will oversee reorganization and receive 5000 dollars yearly. He has long promoted livestock improvement and scientific farming in Clearfield County.
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Charles E. Patton
Curwensville
Clearfield
Twenty-fifth
State Commission of Agriculture
Department
Patton
Congress
National Committee of Agriculture
Innis
Commission of Agriculture
Mr. Patton
Dickinson
John Patton
United States
Michigan
Road Expenditures Show Growth of State Aid in Roads
The report notes a surge in good roads activity across states with 39 states adopting State aid laws by 1915 and total road expenditures reaching $211.9 million since 1895. It highlights that 38 percent of states allocated $54.9 million for 1915, while 1914 total road spending from state and local funds totaled $250.8 million. It provides mileage data: 2,273,181 total miles of public roads, 247,490 surfaced (10.9 percent), and 35,477 miles of state aided roads built by 1915. Indiana remains strong in surfaced road mileage at 26,831, behind Ohio and New York, and Rhode Island leads surfaced percentage at 58.8 percent.
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Indiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Texas
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New York
California
Ohio
United States
Rhode Island
Watchmaking labor taps 925 steps in one dollar model
In Flatbush and Bensonhurst chatter, locals debate the claim that a watch priced at one dollar requires 925 separate manufacturing operations. A speaker quips if winding needs 925 turns, highlighting skepticism about production claims.
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Flatbush
Bensonhurst
Bindnagles Church Services Sunday Forenoon
Community notes report church services planned for Bindnagles Church Sunday forenoon as residents join farming shifts and road repairs continue after delays. Local moves include Enos Robb relocating to Hershey farm while others visit friends in Grantville and Oil Millers and Palmyra connections share news of births and social calls.
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Enos Robb
Palmyra
Hershey
Allen Dunkin
Harvey Scott
Lebanon
Harvey Smith
Thomas Lingle
John Walborn
Mt. Annville
Moses Kromis
Charles Sattazahn
Friends
Elmer Gerberich
Mt. Pleasant
Grantville
Adam Satazahn
Annville
Edward Gingrich
Hoover Farm Sale Near Vian Draws Purchase by Albert B. Shenk
The Hoover Farm west of Vian was sold at public sale on Saturday. Albert B. Shenk bought the property. Michael Miller hunted squirrels on the second mountain, totaling eight gray and seven red squirrels across two days. David Gordon supplied ballast for the Hershey Elizabethtown trolley line. Harry Longenecker, a cattle dealer from Annville, bought several fine cattle.
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Hoover Farm
Albert B. Shenk
Michael Miller
David Gordon
Hershey- Elizabethtown
Harry Longenecker
Annville
Negotiations Suggested Before Arms, Wise Adage Says Terence
A Terence quote urges pursuing talks first to avoid war. The remark frames diplomacy as prudent strategy before resorting to force.
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Terence
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Ilitla
Liverybody's
Secretary of Agriculture
Clearfield County
Bindnagles Church
Vian
Walter T. Bradley
S. E. Corner
Ninth and
Thompson Streets
Philadelphia
Hoffer
Engle
Hummelstown
Peorge
P. Hoffer
Landis
E. B. Cassady
Swatara Quarry
Swatara, Pa
E. M. Hoffer
C. S. Maylfair
H. M. Hartz
Insurance and Real Estate
W. Main St
Palmyra, PA
NEW Holland Engines
John Deere
Oliver Gang
Syracuse
Oliver
Missouri
Crown and Thomas
Just
Dempwolf’s
D. B. Martin’s
Hershey Store Co
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