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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1914
Page
6
The Public Service Commission refused Hummelstown borough’s request for a grade crossing at Water streets with the Philadelphia and Reading tracks. The ruling says petitioners failed to show a sufficient reason for a new permanent crossing.
Community notes from Bindnagles list visits by Mr and Mrs Crum Poorman Yorty Bomgardner Wenger Leslie Garman Ensminger Leese Behm Keef er Hetrick Shefley Ried Wert Tobias Barnhart Kuntz and Cassel. Courthouse juryman David Ensminger. Fall seeding work and ajek list mention.
The Geographer of the Department of Commerce C Sloane estimates the U S population on July 1 at 109,021,992, an increase of over 1 million since 1910. The forty eight states and D C total 98,781,824, up about 7 million in four years. New York City is listed at 6,888,537.
At a reception a woman reading about health culture confuses Mr. Willama with his doctor brother asking if it is better to be on the right side of the left. The lawyer replies that if one is on the right side it isn’t often necessary to lie.
Sir George Paish states United States wealth nearly doubles that of any country with vast gains in century wealth and population. He notes rising banking and credit activity driving global capital pours and foreign investments, listing major banks and national deposits across Europe and the Americas.
Cyril Scott recalls a court scene where a judge expresses sympathy before sentencing an assault with intent to kill offender to thirty years. The condemned inmate quips that the judge is careless with other people's time. A farmer joke closes the luncheon anecdote.
In a World War II era critique the phrase scraps of paper is invoked to critique treaty protections from Belgium to the Magna Charta and to illustrate how perceived sacred texts and laws are diminished by force. The piece argues that respect for treaties marks national honor and that democracy remains stronger than autocracy despite rhetoric.
An angry mother leads her boy by the hand as she wields a menacing cane arguing about a misadventure with a cat aboard a Chicago scene. The exchange preserves a tense, folkloric moment in city life.
Poem asserts peace and labor as a peaceful defender of bread and honest toil against famine and war. It envisions soil, cotton, corn, and the Lord’s blessing while pledging faith and steadfast work to feed the world. A quoted note references a caption about a picture agent asking a fat woman about enlarging her photo.
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