World’s Greatest Rodeo Comes to Orlando Stadium
Ken Maynard, Western star, headlines the second annual World’s Greatest Rodeo and Thrill Circus at Orlando Football Stadium Friday through Sunday January 8 4 and 5. Maynard appears daily at 3 pm and 8 pm with his horse Tarzan. About 200 cowboys and cowgirls from the United States Mexico and Canada compete for 10000 in prizes in bronc riding wild cow milking calf roping bull dogging and wild Brahma bull events.
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Ken Maynard
Orlando
Maynard
Tarzan
United States
Mexico
Canada
Madison Square Cowboys Visit Orlando Show
Cowboys from Madison Square New York will compete with Johnny Maymes of Florida defending his 1947 state title. Sixteen cowgirls perform tricks roping and riding alongside circus acts Selden Stratosphere man Ernie Wiswell and his Funny Ford Smoky the moving picture horse and more in a two hour thirty minute show touring Orlando January 3 4 and 5 after drawing over two million spectators nationwide last year.
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Madison Square
New York
Johnny Maymes
Florida
America
Selden
Stratosphere Man
Ernie Wiswell
Funny Ford
Smoky
Wonder Horse of Moving Picture Fame
Orlando
United States
Canada
Lake County Child Committee Holds Second Meeting
The Lake County Child Committee, appointed by Governor Caldwell, met with 16 members at the Dutch Kitchen. Reports showed 15 boys and 3 girls were committed to state schools in 1945-46, and 132 other children under 17 were picked up or arrested. Members outlined Boy Scout activity, education and recreation plans, school athletics, and child health surveys as part of the state juvenile delinquency program.
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Lake County
Caldwell
Eee
Dutch Kitchen
A. S. Herlong, Jr
Hugh Embry
Clermont
Marianna
Ocala
Walter Patton
Mount Dora
John Shutt
James Bevis
Tavares
Subcommittee On Education and Recreation
Stone limitations shape 1599 St Augustine building
Records from the Oldest House note material scarcities in 1599 St Augustine with scrub stone as the only usable stone for sitvate home building while better stone reserved for fortifications.
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St. Augustine
Death of W Eichelberger Saddens Pallbearers Society
East Town mourns W Eichelberger of Sanford longtime undertaker and Pallbearers Society No 2 member. He died after a stroke three weeks earlier and will be buried Sunday at 2 pm in Sanford. He leaves a wife and many relatives and friends.
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Pallbearers Society No. 2
W. Eichelberger
Sanford
Mount Dora
Eichelberger
Sorrento
Frances Young
Patience Francis
James Johnson
Fustis
Eustis
Apho
Thomas family plans Christmas trip to Amsterdam and Calvary
The Thomas family, including Santa T. M. Thomas and his wife, intend to travel Tuesday morning Christmas Eve day via Amsterdam and Calvary, Florida. They request prayers from the Mount praying group as they depart, while Janie and Johnnie Foster prepare to return home from Jersey City, New Jersey.
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Santa T. M. Thomas
Amsterdam
Calvary
Quins Midway
Florida
Janie
Johnnie Foster
Jersey City
New Jersey
M. Thomas
Mount Dora to Review Ordinance on Alcohol Sale Distances
At the December 3 1946 regular meeting Mount Dora Town Council submitted a proposed ordinance to amend distance rules for liquor sales near schools and churches. The plan reduces the setback from 2500 feet to 1500 feet and will be publicly available for inspection in the town clerk’s office until final passage on January 7 1947 at 7 30 p m in Mount Dora Florida.
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Mount Dora
Fila
Florida
Wm. C. Stewart
Mount Dora Town Council reads proposed ordinance
Notice is given that at an adjourned meeting the Mount Dora Florida Town Council on December 9, 1946 read a proposed ordinance to clarify and codify points in the ordinance passed April 3, 1945. The ordinance is on file and may be examined at 7:30 PM December 30, 1946 at City Hall. Town Clerk William C. Stewart signed the notice December 3, 1946.
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Maering
Mount Dora
Fia
Town of
Fila
Florida
Wm. C. Stewart
Fla
Mountain
Raven
Mount Dora Town Council Adopts Occupational License Ordinance
Notice of an adjourned December 9 1946 Mount Dora Florida town council meeting where a proposed ordinance to issue occupational licenses to all business persons and enterprises resident and non resident was submitted for reading at the town clerk’s office and to be inspected.
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Mount Dora
Fla
Florida
Final Ordinance Records at Mount Dora City Hall
Dated the 3rd day of Dec. 1946 the town council of Mount Dora Florida approved the final ordinance. The document lists William C. Stewart as Town Clerk and references a transfer or payment of 0-2 to the town official.
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Mount Dora
Florida
Wm. C. Stewart
Mount Dora Passes Building Ordinance Change
Town council approves ordinance 111.6 restricting wooden shingles for roofs in Mount Dora Florida. The measure requires permits and fees enforcement with city inspections at City Hall. Public hearing set for 7:30 P M December 46 overseen by Town Clerk Wm C Stewart.
Decree Pro Confesso Ordered Publication in Mount Dora Topic
A decree pro confesso is entered against the defendant. The order requires publication of a copy once weekly for four weeks in the Mount Dora Topic, a general circulation newspaper in Mount Dora, Lake County, Florida, dated December 2.
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State OF Florida
Sadie Cody
Circuit Court of the 11Th
Judicial Circuit
Lake County
Chanecery
Mount Dora
Neral
Pmount
Geo
J. Dykes
Circuit Court
Florida
Grace H. Cox
D. C
Thomas H. Cooley Roy Christopher
Joan Machett
Times Core Ee Service
State OF
Harry Martin Chambers
Dauphine Street
Mobile
Alabama
Spear
Fifth Judicial Circuit
A. D
Geo. J. Dykes
Thomas H. Cooley
Roy Christopher
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