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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1926
Page
2
Local Mount Dora weekly notes listing publisher and editor names, subscription price, and advertising rates. Includes scattered quips about society, weather, and editorial opinions from Tampa papers, reflecting early 20th century humor and public notices.
A garbled Omaha World-Herald page with mismatched proverbs and jumbled phrases. The text mixes old sayings about wisdom, health, and economics with stray lines about movies, taxes, and tobacco, producing a nonsensical collage of maxims and introductions.
The piece frames No U Turn as a safety and life discipline urging continuous progress. It advocates facing forward, avoiding reversal when discouraged, and choosing small pivots instead of complete retreat. It emphasizes steadfast resolve in personal and urban growth.
The Topic editor lauds Florida after a winter stay, praising climate, soil, lakes, and recreation. He argues large-scale development and wealth from visitors will spur continued growth, jobs, and demand for services, predicting tenfold acceleration over a decade as migrants and tourists flood the state.
Mount Dora urged to make next Tuesday a holiday and join Eustis for a well planned Mardi Gras event. The piece praises reciprocal neighborliness after recent yacht races and calls for strong attendance to lead the celebration.
A remark asserts women improve political safety and notes a Republican retaining employment under his wife’s name. The claim foregrounds gender roles and political accountability without detailing dates or contexts.
An elderly man recalls railing against joy riding yet admitting he once drove a bright grey team with one hand. The reminiscence captures a contrast between present views and former driving habits.
A column highlights how the Earl of Craven eloped with Countess Cathcart, then returned to his wife while she faces deportation at Ellis Island. The piece argues men escape punishment while women bear the consequences, calling for a single standard of morality.
Mount Dora resident Dr R W Dickson docked at Lake Griffin basin and endorsed crossing Haines Creek to reach Lake Eustis. He arrive from Mount Dora in three and a half hours and predicted a four hour return. Captain Alsebrook clears floating islands and dredging awaits orders from Colonel Youngberg as work begins.
Johnnie B. Gruelle author and cartoonist is back from Florida for a brief stay and says he will increase investments southward by next summer. He refutes bubble talk, notes a 25 story Coral Gables apartment project with elevators dining rooms pools and roof playgrounds and mentions a new hotel touted as possibly the best in the world.
The note recalls a Springfield era when Abraham Lincoln practiced law and served as a correspondent for R G Dun Co. in 1851. It hints at recurring year by year curiosities about Lincoln and local events, tying reflections on his early career to present musings.
A Dun and Co. credit letter recounts a townsman described by Abraham Lincoln as tenant and part time office holder with few means, a log cabin residence, a three legged stool and a six month rent backlog, with a rat hole noted. Lincoln reminisces about Revolutionary War sites near his Newburgh area home and shares humorous valentines about fishing.
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