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Newspaper
Bradenton Herald
Location
Bradenton, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1927
Page
6
The Bradenton Herald presents national advertising joy. M Branham and Ca York Chiama 5 percent Louis Atlanta Telephone No lize.
Plans for Bradenton and Manatee County include population targets, 1927 health and infrastructure projects, and modernization. Goals feature fire and police department upgrades, new union depot, widened waterways, improved lighting and sidewalks, traffic-friendly runways on bridges, and countywide beautification toward Sarasota County line.
A fragmented Ballyhoo style column croons about faith fear fishing and holidays. It mocks fairs and merchants invites Chamber of Commerce attendance while tossing quirky lines about actors evangelists and a photographer changing records.
Brederton and Manatee county towns host Confederate veterans this Thursday urging merchants to display flags. The piece urges local residents to honor aged veterans of the South and ensure they receive courtesy during their visit to the Dumble Mansion before they pass on.
The Herald endorses a state wide survey of Florida schools and supports spending 60 000 for the project. Manatee and other lawmakers push for remedial measures to ease school funding during this session, hoping for faster improvement. The piece credits Gordon B Knowles with shaping the debate and warns legislators to advance concrete reforms.
The piece denounces a British bill barring detailed divorce reporting, arguing it boosts secrecy and scandal. It contends free press sustains democracy and moral standards, warning that suppressing truth harms civilization and enables evasion by guilty parties.
The columnist argues American tourists fuel France’s summer economy, and warns that rude treatment may drive visitors to Munich Vienna Geneva Naples and Nordic nations. If Americans redirect dollars, Paris risks losing the goose that laid the golden eggs and French manners must improve for mutual benefit.
A Bradenton letter opposes a proposed gas plant sale to John A. Reed, detailing objections to contract terms, payment timing, attorney authority, and price rates. The writer argues the plan favors Reed, delays closing, and risks city control, urging thorough review before April 19 election.
A six and one fourth pound egg plant from Sneads Island is sent to Barnesville. J. W. Lewis house sale to J. Fred Chatterton of Oxford Junction Iowa. Isaac Breeding Jr and wife plan to move to Detroit for law practice. New school building by Hullinger includes five and a half acres, seating 800, 40 000 square feet, cost about 132000. West Pine street property owners donate six foot strip to widen the street.
In New York the subway expands beneath Manhattan disrupting landmarks and shops. A former bar where John Masefield began as a bar boy and later Frank Shay’s book shop face demolition as a new line cuts through Christopher Street. The owners and artists fear loss of the village’s historic doors and studio houses amid influx and redevelopment.
A fragment of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem Brahma explores the paradox of life and death, self and escape. It portrays the speaker as the unseen force behind slayer and slain, doubt and hymn, wings and flight, inviting the seeker to find him away from heaven.
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