Hunkler Dairy
The Kentucky Post, Monday, 24 October 1910, page 5
HUNKLER'S INJURIES
It was stated at Speers Hospital today that the condition of
Theodore Hunkler of Newport, who was found badly beaten on the Licking pike near
the Newport Brass Foundry, Saturday night is not dangerous. Hunkler's leg was
broken and he suffered multiple bruises and cuts about the body, but the wounds
are not likely to prove serious. Hunkler refused to talk much about the affair.
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The Kentucky Post, Saturday, 14 April 1917, page 1
Mason Howk, public property commissioner of Covington, Saturday
pointed to the need of military guards at the Covington reservoirs in the
Highlands at Ft Thomas and at the main valves, which are underground about 30
feet-one at Hunkler's Dairy on Licking pike, three miles from Newport.
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The Kentucky Post, 1959 (no other date on article)
Milk Wagon on Rounds by Burl Russell
John Hunkler and his daughter were making the rounds of his dairy route. "Usually dad started out at 2 am from our farm home on Moock road," recalled the daughter, long since grown up, Mrs. Elise Warwood of Erlanger.
"Sometimes he would take me with him. And sometimes I would go with my uncles, Xavier and Theodore" The trio of Hunkler brothers were from Switzerland. They operated the dairy for years around the turn of the century. The milk route was in Newport and Bellevue. The cans of milk were taken from the cooler and loaded into the wagon. There was a measuring dipper which ladled out the amount the customer wanted.
"Sometimes they would get two or three cents' worth, Elsis laughed. "Quite a difference from today." She said her father and his brothers are dead. Theodore lived longest. He was 92 when he died at his home in Reading Oh, three years ago.
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