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Milton hershey

            
             Milton Hershey made a new recipe for milk chocolate in the 1900's. He sold the chocolate bars for 5 cents. He named the chocolate bar after himself. It became a very big business.
             Milton Hershey was not always successful. When Milton first tried to sell his candy he failed. But he never gave up. He kept trying out new recipes until it made him a wealthy man.
             Then he surprised everyone and gave all his money away.
             HERSHEY FAMILY:.
             Milton Hershey was born on September 13, 1857 in a stone farmhouse in Derry Township, Pennsylvania. His family belonged to the Mennonite religion like most of the towns people. Mennonites worked hard as farmers and dressed plainly. They did not play games, dance or go to parties. They did not even read books for fun. .
             Milton's dad Henry was different. Henry liked to dream, read books and learn about new anything new like machines, crops and ways to get rich. None of Henrys big ideas ever worked. .
             Milton's mom, Fanny did not believe in big ideas. She wanted hard work, so she taught Milton to work hard on the Hershey farm.
             But Milton was like his dad and knew he would never be happy as a farmer.
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             MILTON HERSHEY:.
             Milton Hershey's favorite candy before he invented the milk chocolate, were sour balls. They made his cheeks bulge.
             At 13 years old Milton got a job running a printing press. He hated this job. So he dropped his straw hat into the machine. His boss fired him.
             At 15 years old he got another job as a candy maker. But he made mistakes there too. One time, he forgot to turn off the hot air blower for roasting peanuts and later that evening while at the theater next door he smell burning peanuts and had to run back to the shop. There were burned peanut shells everywhere.
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             At 19 years old he opened up his own candy business in .
             Philadelphia, with $150 he borrowed from his aunt Mattie. He sold each piece for 1 penny. But candy was made with sugar and it was very expensive.


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