Selective Service Registration Details For Florida Feb 14 16
Officials outline registration rules for the February 14 16 selective service, detailing card colors nine required questions and the need to carry a certificate. Proclamations set 7 am to 9 pm war time hours with local boards handling sites including Mount Dora High School for whites and East Town school for negros.
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Collins
Spessard L. Holland
Florida
Selective Service
United States
Mount Dora
Mount Dora High School
East Town
Lawn Bowling Clubs Contest For Second Prize
Several Fernleigh Lawn Bowling Club members from Hartford Connecticut will clash with local teams this week for second prize. Winter visitors Carl Jamson Albert Whittier Clinton Deming and Edward Deming visited St Petersburg February 4 and 5 to see Dr. William G. Downes and Willard M. Bryant. Former Peabody secretary R N Clark of Daytona Beach says he can no longer assist in bowl adjust-
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Ronald Morse
McDonald
Church
Harold Morse
Poole
Parker
Sheldon
Hill
Carl Jamson
Albert Whittier
Clinton Deming
Edward Deming
St. Petersburg
William G. Downes
Willard M. Bryant
Fernleigh Lawn Bowling Club
Hartford
Connecticut
R. N. Clark
Peabody Lawn Bowling Club
Daytona Beach
Mixed team championship match shrugs off a deep sunk challenge
A Mount Dora bowls match saw Mr and Mrs Hill plus three others defeat the Bridgman Pratt duo by 20 to 6 in a special mixed team challenge of the Water Tank District. Orlando’s league games yielded a 96 to 45 win over Mount Dora amid broad participation by local physicians and players.
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North Carolina
Mount Dora
Bridgman
Pratt
Hill
Blackburne
Miss Richards
Orlando
Dr. Chisholm
Dr. Poole
Dr. Mayo
Harold Morse
Niles-Stevens
Breckenridge
Jones
Roland Morse
Cornwall-Miller
Converse
Crockett
Denbroeder
Nelson
Woodworth- Smedley
Stoner
Urquhart
Berry- Rhodes
Kiwanis Talk Sparks Space Fascination and Frolic Plans
Kiwanis meeting features astronomy talk by Mr. Rogers about Earth Moon and stars highlighting the solar system. Carl Graves promotes the Kiwanis Frolic at Princess Theatre February 26 27 and urges member help. Attendance reports show Dillenbeck 85 percent French 75 percent with makeups due. E J Best of Maryland attends as a visitor.
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Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mr. Rogers
Carl Graves
Ken
Princess Theatre
Engelhard
Eustis Kiwanis
Dillenbeck
E. J. Best
Maryland
Nooded West
Roland Morse
C. J. Brown
Certificates for Tire Purchases Issued by Lake County Board 128
List of certificates for new tires or tubes issued to Moorhead Feed Store H C Peterson James C Orr for week ending February 7 1942. Obsolete type notes. Published under The Rationing Regulations December 30 1941. List posted at Mount Dora offices. Officials Alfred Rehbaum A C Quixley C H Lichliter.
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Lake County
Mount Dora
Moorhead
H. C. Peterson
James C. Orr
Office of Production Management
Washington, D.C
Fifth Avenue
Donnelly Streets
Florida
Alfred Rehbaum
A. C. Quixley
C. H. Lichliter
Lake County Tire Rationing Board
Milner Rosenwald Academy Tag Day Rally and Memorial Program
Milner Rosenwald Academy East Town invites friends to a Tag Day Rally on Friday February 13 to support students with tags. A memorial program for Dr Duncan Chambers Milner and Mr Julius Rosenwald will be held Sunday February 15 at 4 30 p m featuring a protesting program and a pleasant hour for attendees.
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Milner-Rosenwald Academy
Duncan Chambers Milner
Julius Rosenwald
Cauly Lott
H. S. Basketball Schedule and Tournaments Listed
The schedule lists games at Eustis on February 13 and Umatilla on February 17 for the senior class play on February 20 and February 23 with the Ocoee conference tournament on February 27 and 28 followed by the district tournament on March 6 and 7 and the state tournament on March 13 and 14.
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Eustis
Umatilla
Ocoee
A Disease or Disgrace The Syphilis Cure Message
A persuasive health notice urges viewing syphilis as a disease not a disgrace and promotes cure through blood testing and weekly arsenic and bismuth treatments. It claims seventy weeks suffices to protect family, unborn children, and national health, and notes the Mount Dora Clinic meets every Wednesday.
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Mount Dora
Annual Barbecue and Reunion Of Retired Postal Clerks
The Postal Colony Company of Clermont hosts its annual barbecue on February 19 at noon for postal friends. The event, now 20 years old in Clermont, has grown from a dozen members to 500 700 attendees from across the United States. Expected guests include Senator James Mead and Congressman Joe Hendricks, with many postal officials in attendance. A per plate charge is requested and attendees should notify Clermont with party counts to aid planning.
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Postal Colony Company
Clermont
James Mead
New York
Joe Hendricks
Florida
Florida Horticultural and Medical Meetings Set in April
West Palm Beach hosts multiple professional gatherings in April. The Florida State Horticultural Society meets April 18 to 19 while the Florida State Medical Association convenes April 12 to 16.
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West Palm Beach
Florida State Horticultural Society
Florida State Medical Association
Sea Island Cotton Prices Stabilized for 1942 Planting
A February 5 press release declares a price floor for Sea Island cotton grades and staple lengths set by the Commodity Credit Corporation. The program aims to end hog round buying, encourage better grades, and support Lake County Florida growers with premiums for long staple fibre while cautioning that acreage will not surge. Attention to high quality seed, careful ginning, and insect control are urged to maximize prices.
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Credit Corporation
Sea Island
United States Department of Agriculture
Florida
Lake County
Commodity Credit Corporation
R. E. Norris
Tavares
M. N. Walker
Leesburg
Payroll Allotment For Defense Savings Participation Urged
Lake County forms a Defense Savings payroll allotment committee led by A S Herlong Jr with members from Leesburg Eustis Mount Dora and surrounding towns. The plan aims to boost payroll deductions for Defense Bonds with several local firms already participating and reports due to the courthouse in Tavares Florida.
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A. S. Herlong, Jr
Central Florida
Lake County
Tim M. Seller
Leesburg
Frank W. Stebbins
Eustis
Richard Edgerton
Mount Dora
G. A. Nash
Clermont
C. L. Bassett
Tavares
Caryl B. Hipson
Umatilla
Clayton Weir
Groveland
Dodge Taylor
First National Bank
Villa Dora
Mount Dora Hardware Company
Post Office
Florida Telephone Corporation
Triangle Gas Company
American Building Products Company
American Road Builders
Herlong
Florida
Borough County
Duval County
Dade
Pinellas and
Leon
Court House
Karl Lehmann
Treasury Department
Defense Savings Committee
George J. White
Lake
Special Limited Service Enlists Older Marines in Florida
The Florida Marine Corps Recruiting Service reports Washington authorized a special limited service Marine Corps for men aged 30 to 50. A 6,000-strong force will operate within the continental United States at naval stations, replacing younger Marines. Ex-Marines and ex-soldiers enlist immediately with station choices. Ex-soldiers and others undergo brief processing.
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U.S. Marine Corps
Florida Marine Corps Recruiting Service
Washington
Marine Corps
Special Service Marine Corps
Continental
United States
Naval
Marine
Marine Recruiting HQ accept applications immediately
Major A. M. Robbins in charge announces that applications for the Orlando branch at 907 Florida Bank Building will be accepted immediately.
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Gu Uty
A. M. Robbins
Marine Recruiting
Florida Bank
Orlando
Eight Ball Talk Sparks Racial Snippet In Times N
An archaic Times n feature quotes H W Brown with a provocative racial remark about a pay call and a horn player named Snowball Johnson. The fragmentary piece juxtaposes the Boston Symphony and a Mess Call as a humorous aside about table beans and strawberries.
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Boston Symphony
Johnson
Notice of Tax Deed Application for Lake County
Dixie Royal filed for a tax deed on a certificate issued September 3, 1939. The property in Lake County, Florida described as NW SE of Section 4 Township 22 Range 27, assessed to Growers Loan & Guardian Co, will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder at the courthouse door in Tavares on March 2, 1942, at 11:00 A.M., unless redeemed. Official seal by Clerk George Kes, Lake County Court, Florida.
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Dixie Royal
Lake
State of
Ae Sy
Nwit
NW SE
Growers Loan & Guaranty Co
Tavares
Fila
Geo. Kes
Sneai Court
Lake County
Florida
A. J. Barnage
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Roy Beasley
R. M. Bevill Ray Blanchard, Jr
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Charles Edward Brooks II
Ralph E. Chapman
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Robert W. Dickson, Jr
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Cliff Dumas
Arnold Durham
A. Lee French, Jr
L. C. Green Lee
J. Hart
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James Jones
Don Kimball
John F. Knight Howard Blair Kramer
Harold Lane
A. D. Marshall, Jr
Leon C. Mortensen
Curtis Minkley, Jr
Thos. F. McCabe, Jr
J. Mortimer McCown, Jr
Wm. McCown Daniel Kenneth McKinley
Walter C. McWhorter
Dempsey Moore
Charles Norris
Roger I. Pinkston
Charles Pohlman
Robert Pohlman
Bayard Roberts
Edward Sadler Mid, Stuart T. Sadler
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Richard G. Shipes, Jr
Frederick Sleight
Ralph Wilson Snow
William Stewart
Cecil Stevenson
Tommy Sumeral
Donald Thompson
Ralph Townsend Monroe Woodward
Richard van Voor
J. J. West Realty DO
Homer Morris
Texaco Gas and Oil
Willard
H. W. Brown
Winfield
Randall
Herlong, Jr
Katie P. Randall
Lawn Villa
N. Donnelly Avenue
W.C. Butts
Mount Dora, Florida
Floridan Country Club
Howey-in-the-Hills
Sentinel
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