Mount Dora Hosts CF Conference Tourney Next Week
Mount Dora's Golden Hurricanes aim for a strong CF tournament showing as the boys seek an 8 of 12 finish after a tight regular season. Opening games Wednesday include St James vs St Cloud and Clermont vs Lyman with Mount Dora facing Umatilla Thursday night while the girls meet Tavares.
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Mount Dora
Golden Hurricanes
Central Florida
Umatilla
Tavares
Mount Dora Boys
St. James
Orlando
Eustis
St. Cloud
Lyman
Clermont
Montverde-Umatilla
Clermont-Lyman
Oviedo
St. Cloud-St. James
Groveland
Titusville
Montverde
Lassies
Titusville-Oviedo
X-Ray Unit Calls Five Day Lake County Health Effort
The Lake County Health Department and Lake County TB and Health Association sponsor a mobile X-ray unit in five days starting February 21. Open to anyone over 15 not previously X-rayed, the screening targets chest disorders including tuberculosis, enlarged heart, and tumors. The unit will operate in three county sections with schedules for Mount Dora workers in Eustis on February 25 26, and will be stationed across from Central Florida Motor Sales.
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Lake County
Mount Dora
Eustis
Central Florida Motor Sales
Mount Dora Author Grace Hogarth Puts New Novel Forward
English born American author Grace Allen Hogarth, residing in Mount Dora, plans another children's book while her son David, a Westminster School pupil, joins a coronation parade in London. Her dual citizenship, motherhood, and publishing work shape a career rich in cross Atlantic ties and literary projects.
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Mount Dora
David Hogarth
Westminster School
London
Westminster
Hogarth
J. Weston Allen
America
Newton
Mass
Hogarth Deter
Parade of wagons sets stage for Days of 49ers carnival
A downtown parade of covered wagons and vintage autos will preview Central Florida’s Days of 49ers carnival on Saturday at 10 a.m. Lions Club sponsors, featuring bearded businessmen acting as 1849 figures, raise funds for sight conservation. Ticket sales already exceed prior years as the carnival opens Friday at Third and Donnelly.
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Alexander
Third St
Lions Club
Glendy Sadler
William Prinz
Charles Bradford
Lavoy Winton
Honey Winton
al Rehbaum, Jr
Third
Donnelly St
Carnival
Bill Prinz
Florida
Arnold Haynes
Lake County Personalities Presents Dr Charles Earle Funk
Mount Dora hosts wintering literary figure Dr Charles Earle Funk. The retired editor-in-chief of Funk and Wagnalls Dictionary company and his family may decide if Mount Dora becomes their winter home this season.
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Lake County
Charles Earle Funk
Funk and Wagnalls Dictionary Company
Mount Dora
Guild Meets The Wesleyan Service Guild Meeting
The Wesleyan Service Guild of the First Methodist church meets at 8 p.m. today at the church for its regular monthly gathering.
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Wesleyan Service Guild
First Methodist Church
Uncle Bill Blumenshine Dies While Fishing at Dora River
The 82 year old harmonica performer known as Uncle Bill Blumenshine died of a probable heart attack while fishing alone in a boat on the Dora River near Lake Dora. He lived in Mount Dora three years, formerly a Colfax, Illinois farmer, leaving a son Roger, a sister and two grandsons. Services were held at Rehbaum chapel and burial planned in Colfax.
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Bill
Bill Blumenshine
Dora
Lake Beauclaire
Blumenshine
Roger
Colfax
Robert M. Blackburn
Rehbaum
Jingle Contest Calls for Entries at Lake County Fair
Mount Dora residents urged to write rhymes for the Don t Be a Litterbug tune for the Lakes and Garden club contest during the Lake County Flower show in Eustis at the Lake County Fair in March.
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Mount Dora
Lakes and Garden Club
Bene
Lake County
Eustis
Lent of Sorrento: Florida citrus pioneer's steadfast rise
ED'TOR'S NOTE profiles Victor E. Lent of Sorrento as a Florida citrus pioneer who after surviving the 1895 freeze planted a 53 acre grove and later expanded to 46 acres. The article recalls his faith through hard times, building a family home, roads, and hospitals, and his work as a carpenter to support his venture as agricultural scientists sent experiments and exotic plants for trial.
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Ed'tor
Victor E. Lent
Sorrento
Florida
Lent
Florida gardener Victor Lent and his lush Easter lilies
Victor E Lent earned renown for turning a discarded lily bulb into an expansive garden in Florida, hosting abundant Easter lilies and a thriving display of narcisus amaryllis roses camellias and azaleas. He also ran a roadside garden produce effort feeding neighbors and visitors while his sons stayed in reserve roles until 1917.
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Florida
Elizabeth
Coman
Fetacevine
United Europe Hope Is Strong Says Winter Visitor
A Lakeside Inn visitor Dr E B de Sauze a philosopher and dean in languages argues Eisenhowers nomination could be a blow to France yet he expects his U S presidency He envisions a federated Europe NATO strength and says Americans favor Eisenhower over Taft while Taft faces foreign policy concerns He notes France inflation armament costs and Indo China deployment and praises De Gaulle Schumann and the Marshall Plan.
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Lakeside Inn
Eisenhower
France
United States
E. B. de Sauze
Europe
NATO
de Sauze
Taft
Senate
Lakeside
Graduate School of Western University
Cleveland Board of Education
United States of Europe
U. S
Indo-China
Russia
de Gaulle
Robert Schumann
Schumann
Defense rests as witness is belittled in Groveland case
The Irvin defense wrapped up its case after a Tuesday start and amid controversy over a key witness. Miami detective H V Bennett attacked the State's evidence about footprints and tire marks while the defense faced objections to judges and attorneys. The trial reflects the Groveland case's issues with fair representation and racial considerations.
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Irwin
U. S. Supreme Court
Irvin
H. V. Bennett
Miami
James L. Yates
Bennett
Harry Oakes
Lindberg
Yates
F.B.I
Alex Akerman
Paul Perkins
Orlando
Jack Greenberg
New York City
Thurg
Roper Survey in Lake County Case Stirs Florida Courtroom
A Florida trial reveals use of Elmo Roper public opinion polling to seek a change of venue in the Lakes County rape case. Prof. Julian L Woodward defends the method while four African Americans recount race relations. the effort ends with little gain for Walter Irvin's defense.
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Hunter
Julian Lawrence Woodward
Elmo Roper
Florida
Marshall
Marion County
U. S. Supreme Court
Groveland
Jesse W. Hunter
Lake County
New York City
Walter Lee Irvin
Famous Lakes
Jesse Hunter
Fifth Judicial Circuit
Roper
Jack Greenberg
New York
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Marion
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George
Grace Allen Hogarth
Mrs. Hogarth
Wagon Parade
49Ers
Uncle Bill
Stake County
Mabel Norris Reese
Mount Plymouth Hotel
Mr. Lent
Olive Raulerson
Raulerson
Plymouth Road
Reel Nee Calais
Plymouth
Wolf Branch
Howard
Agriculture Department
Alexandria
North
Africa
Victor Lent
United Europe
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