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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1928
Page
5
The article extols vegetables as bulk for digestion and notes they aid bowel movement. It lists cabbage carrots rutabagas and celery as high in cellulose and lime and outlines iron vitamins and protein provided by vegetables plus dairy and eggs as dietary complements.
Harold Lloyd plans a Speedy production with Yankee Stadium as a filming location. Babe Ruth will ride in as a baseball figure while Ann Christy is poised as leading lady. Florida osteopathic physicians prepare public health talks at a First Baptist meeting.
National figures in osteopathy will attend the twenty fourth annual Florida Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons convention at the Palmerin Hotel on Davis Islands in Tampa May 10 11 and 12. Included are Dr C J Gaddis Chicago secretary of the American Osteopathy association and Dr Oral F Martin Boston chief sur-
Mount Dora Elementary School holds graduation exercises on Friday May 4 1928 featuring music orchestra salutatory by Donald Cartledge class history by Peggy Champ readings including The Leaf Flowers The Rose and The Last Rose of Summer and various dialogues poems songs and speeches with certificates presented Virginia Williams Evelyn Hammond Katheryne Williamson and Nelson Cain among participants.
Seaboard suspends its bus line serving Orland o and Wildwood via Mount Dora Tavares Eustis and Leesburg for the summer season. The service halt affects riders along the Orlando area corridor and replaces regular routes with no current resumption date.
Continues listing Clermont, Mt. Dora, Tavares and other communities with representatives including M. V. Simpson, R. P. Burton, W. M. Rees, J. R. Ashmore, and Paul T. Harber among others. The group of business leaders includes Esmeralda, Mascotte, Eustis, Grand Island, Leesburg and towns across the county.
A series of residents depart for summer homes in East Orange New Jersey Mount Dora and New York while others attend events. Mrs George Keller attends the Florida Press Association meeting in Lake Worth and several men return from Jacksonville after the Masonic Grand Lodge gathering. The Washburns plan to Gray's Lake Illinois and a Girl Scouts fundraiser nets 18 dollars 29 cents for a June camping trip.
Mrs. Fannie Akam departs Mount Dora today to return to her home in Maysville New York for several months. She is a well known figure in Mount Dora having spent the last 24 winters at the Grandview Hotel.
The article notes a Mount Dora meeting where Mayor D C Sherman and others praised local merchants for clean stores and high standards. Speakers urged buying locally to support the economy, highlighted the Sidel market as a benchmark, and called for interclub cooperation and full attendance at the Leesburg interclub meeting.
Mrs J B Kennerly of Orlando stayed with her aunt Miss W A Adams on Wednesday. Miss Minnie Ball of Columbus Ohio visiting in Orlando toured the Grandview Hotel. Mr and Mrs M F Hockemeyer moved into the Lake shore Drive cottage of the Hazelwoods. Miss Amos Mrs F L Ten Eyck and R M Tyndall of St Peters burg were guests at the Grandview Hotel.
Miss Helen Heath and her mother and sister in law from the Lake side Inn left this week for a Florida tour and then Cape Cod. Mr and Mrs Dart left Mount Dora for Wayatta Minnesota to spend summer months. Mr and Mrs E W Denton, after several days at Villa Dora hotel, left for a Shenandoah trip before returning to New York City.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway Company will discontinue through trains for the summer. Traffic heads report satisfactory patronage and expect reestablishment next fall with the 1928-29 tourist season opening.
David Simpson leaves Tuesday for the postmasters convention at Lake Worth this week. J C White is able to work again after illness. Ernest Chamberlin and wife bought a home in the Better Homes section on Eleventh avenue and moved in last week. Mr and Mrs William F Gentsch of Oakfield New York visit Mr and Mrs William A Umlauf in town. S F Hayward mentioned.
Two Mount Dora boats finished in the money at the Sanford regatta on Tuesday afternoon. See Me Go owned by Harry Backus took second and Miss Pluto owned by H W Willett finished third in the 151 class final. Miss Mount Dora failed to compete after blowing a cylinder head gasket.
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