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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1929
Page
5
The Graf Zeppelin crew arrives at Lakehurst with woolen dogs called Veedols, a new fad among German flappers. A prior flight featured a lubricator crew giving a frisky puppy named Veedol, bred and registered, becoming a publicity favorite on crossing the ocean.
Rollins College announces new additions to the Florida History Collection led by Prof. A. J. Hanna. The papers include early reports translated from Don Manuel de Montiano and cover the 1808 to 1830 US Britain rivalry in Latin America, Jacksonian Florida, and Spain's cession of Florida. Montiano letters detail plans to annihilate the English on St Simon's Island in 1742.
The St Louis Robin achieved aviation history aided by a special equipped Chevrolet six cylinder truck. A special gasoline was used in the Robin and on Sunday, July 21, the flyer’s sec-
Chicago business leaders launch a science focused crime program with Northwestern University to create the Chicago Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory. An endowment of 300000 funds the effort under a directors board led by Walter E Olson of Olson Rug Company with Bert A Massee as co sponsor. The school aims to wage scientific warfare on crime and will offer ballistics and fingerprint courses.
A 800 gallon tank was loaded on a Chevrolet and driven 450 miles after a wreck halted Tulsa supply. The truck completed the run with no engine trouble or overheating, delivering fuel to avert a plane's fuel shortage amid a crisis.
Polk County and its fifty five thousand acres of citrus in zones 2 have been sprayed with bait spray in a cooperative effort led by county committees. The Growers Marketing Agency and Florida Citrus Exchange supported the operation while growers supplied labor teams and tractors.
AV ITH hot in the offing, ii Gary 'bensoets Onets are vegetables, put it in the ice-box to ep cool, and there your refreshing salad is, in the evening-all ready to turn out and serve. Soma recipes for gelatin salads we tin in one-fourth emp cell water. Add enough water to juice from a at ee eae ee cup. Add ome bay leaf and one over griatin, and stir until dissolved. Add one and finely diced peppers, one boiled carrot and one paragus tips, the edge of a fluted mold. Poor tin mixture in center and chil ve, unmolded, on lettuce, gar nished with mayonnaise.
County growers undertook a voluntary cooperative spraying of all zone 2 areas to combat the fruit fly and have completed the program successfully, marking the county as free from the pest for the time being.
Expenses of state departments for the month show a $20,845.93 reduction from July 1928. The license department spent $11,841.28 versus $16,649.45 last year while theft department costs were $16,599.43 compared with $32,637.19 previously. Salaries and travelling expenses were the main cuts this July.
The farm relief law enacted at Congress extraordinary session provides the first aid to a farmers' corporation in Florida for conserving and moving crops, a measure welcomed despite varied public opinion about the law.
The text notes real estate speculation away from Florida and predicts a cyclical boom ending next year. It mentions Mount Dora and calls for efficiency among local school marms while urging readers to stay vigilant.
Doctors warn that nine tenths of American diseases stem from constipation and toxins in the body. Preventing constipation can spare organs from harm and save medical costs. Herbine, a vegetable laxative, is advertised as a natural remedy. Get a bottle today from Mt. Dora Pharmacy.
The notice warns that within twelve months from the first publication, E M Tally or successor as Lake County Judge must act regarding claims to the estate of Frederick M Fearon deceased. Executrix DeTEPHA FEARON requests sworn claims by August 1 1929 at Platts Hollow.
Creditors, legatees and all claimants are notified to present their claims against the estate of Sidney M. Bell Kinger, deceased, to the Lake County Judge within twelve months from August 8, 1929. Issued by J. West, Administrator with Will Annexed, Mt. Dora, Florida.
Alfred Rehbaum appointed administrator of the estate of Augusta W. Ringer, deceased, with address listed as Mount Dora, Florida.
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