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company for $1 million in order to concentrate solely on making chocolate. By the following PEOPLE WORTH year, the Hershey Chocolate Company was REMEMBERING producing chocolate caramels, chocolate for One in a series baking, breakfast cocoa, and sweet chocolate. The first Hershey bars were sold in 1900. • In 1903, in the middle of dairy farmland, construction began on what would become the world’s largest chocolate manufacturing factory. The facility was completed in 1905, and Hershey was already at work building a community, supplying it with housing, a bank, hotel, public schools, churches, parks, and a zoo. Today, the population of Hershey, Pennsylvania is over 14,000. The name of Hershey has been synonymous with chocolate for over 120 years. This week Tidbits • The company introduced Hershey’s Kisses in 1907, followed by the Hershey bar with looks at the man behind the company and some of almonds the following year. the highlights of his interesting life. • Milton Hershey grew up on the family farm in • Mr. and Mrs. Hershey had a narrow escape from death in April of 1912. Having spent the Pennsylvania’s Mennonite community, where winter in France, the couple was booked to the members spoke Pennsylvania Dutch. His travel home on the Titanic. Pressing business father pulled him out of school to assist with matters necessitated Milton to return home the farm chores after the fourth grade, and that earlier than the doomed ship’s departure date, was the end of Milton’s formal education. so he cancelled his tickets, sailing on a different • At age 14, Milton was apprenticed to a local liner. He arrived home in Pennsylvania five printer, the publisher of a German/English days before the sinking of the Titanic. newspaper. He was terminated after a short time • Hershey and his wife Catherine, who were for accidentally dropping his hat into one of theADVERTISING PROOF unable to have children, put their fortune to machines. His mother then arranged for him Mon., July 24, 2023 of5:00 Final Changes DUE: good work in 1909 with the establishment to apprentice under a Lancaster, Pennsylvania Please review carefully. Double check: Phone Number(s) Spelling a school for orphan boys. Three years after P confectioner, and for the next four years, Milton Catherine’s death, in 1918, Milton endowed learned the art of creating sweet treats. Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corr the school with his entire fortune to ensure • When he was 19, Hershey moved to Philadelphia Office: 760-320-0997 email:The valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760 its longevity. school, which expanded to establish his first candy business, which, to include girls, is now the wealthiest private after six years, went bankrupt. It was then on to Pendley Construction school inMike the nation, with an enrollment of Denver, and a new venture – making caramels 16th pg, BW, 6xstudents are admitted, 2,000. Only low-income with fresh milk. After a year, he settled in New July 30, free 2023of•charge. Vol. 19 - No. 31 and are educated York City, training at Huyler’s, the largest chocolate maker in the nation. At 26, Hershey • Hershey died of pneumonia in Hershey Hospital on October 13, 1945, at the age of 88. tried it on his own again with his second
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business, but alas, another bankruptcy. • Returning to Pennsylvania penniless, he borrowed money to launch the Lancaster Caramel Company. Using the recipe he had obtained in his early years which used fresh milk, success was finally his. By the early 1890s, Milton Hershey employed upwards of 1,300 workers in two separate factories. And where else would a candy maker meet his future wife? In a candy shop while delivering an order! • In 1893, Hershey attended the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and while there, purchased equipment for the manufacture of chocolate. Back home, he began experimenting with ingredients for the perfect milk chocolate. Now a daring entrepreneur, he sold his caramel
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