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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1930
Page
4
The piece extols Christmas joy and charitable spirit, urging readers to help those in need. It notes Florida’s strong push for generosity while humorously mentioning bad weather and a tiny municipality. It closes with greetings to Ed Lambright and a New Year wish to Tampa Tribune readers.
Tampa police instructed to greet visitors as Mount Dora’s Chief Cliff Palmer leads welcome efforts. Tourist season begins with Palm Beach social season opening and the Tin Tanner’s Convention assembling.
A long verse wishes Florida editors and newspapers a prosperous season. It names many papers and towns such as Orlando Port St. Lucie Bradenton Estero Pensacola Lake Worth and Starke praising editors and urging good cheer and uninterrupted readership across the state. It closes with a traditional God bless us every one.
The narrator recalls hitching a ride in a 6 wheel freighting truck from Louisiana toward Beaumont Texas with a mixed group of travelers including five college boys, two hoboes, and a traveler from Ohio. Rain, fatigue, and gusty roads shape a perilous, comic journey as the crew races toward Houston.
The text outlines that lost notes remain the maker's responsibility if value is provable, interest rules, agent and partnership liability, limited liability meaning, and that ignorance of the law is no excuse. It covers contract validity, Sunday rules, minor or lunatic status, fraud, signatures, and notices of protest for negotiable instruments.
Mount Dora Trio will present a Christmas dinner program at the Grand View hotel. The event aims to attract diners on Christmas Day, following a Thanksgiving turnout of about seventy five served. The concert features March National Emblem Overture Raymond Waltzes Impassioned Dream Selection Rio Rita with popular numbers Stein Song and Around the Corner. Florida Power Light Co purchases Santana Light and power franchise in town.
The First Baptist Church invites all to Sunday school at 9 45 a m across all departments and morning worship at 11 00 a m with a sermon by Pastor Matthew J Bouterse The B P U gathers at 6 45 p m followed by evangelistic song and supper at 7 30 p m Good music and singing welcome everyone
The Community Church led by Pastor David B. Spencer holds Bible School at 10 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. and a Young People gathering at 7 p.m. The First Church of Christ Scientist in Eustis at Grove Street and Lemon Avenue offers Sunday services at 11 a.m. and Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. Reading room hours are 2-4 p.m. Tuesday and Saturday.
The Florida Agricultural Extension Service with the Farm Board and USDA reports 1931 will bring varied results. Hog prospects look favorable while poultry and milk prices remain flat, beef cattle improve gradually, and sheep and wool stay fair.
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