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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1940
Page
7
Refrigeration Research Engineer touts Dodge engineering leadership with the 1940 Dodge Luxury Liner. The ad highlights comfort, safety, and cost savings, claiming 4,061 engineers bought Dodges in the last year. It urges inspection at local Dodge dealers and notes economy despite luxury.
The portrait profiles Lieut. E. H. Wilkerson of Eustis with details of his legal career. The sketch notes his 24 years in the ore per vine and mentions hobbies including hunting and Sea Island cotton farming as a crop.
Farmers are urged to give at least ten days notice before swine cholera inoculation. Farmers pay full cost now. office injects free. Citrus Growers Institute proceedings from Camp McQuarrie are available with a small material-cost fee. Planting tips include annuals such as asters cosmos sunflowers and zinnias from local seed stores.
Florida officials clarified that citrus packing workers who meet eligibility rules and have not exhausted benefits may draw unemployment compensation. The Industrial Commission estimates about 13,756 workers could access roughly $1.055 million, with similar estimates expected for other citrus sectors.
At State Theatre in Eustis two special shows play Sunday Monday with a Saturday matinee at 9 45. The first full length animated cartoon since Snow White, produced in technicolor by Max Fleischer, tells Swift's tale of Gulliver in Lilliput with eight new songs including Faithful Forever and It's a Hap Ha Happy Day.
Marcus Fagg superintendent of the Crippled Children's Society of Florida Jacksonville says the ten year program adopted at the President's White House Conference on Children in a Democracy will improve conditions for every child in Florida. The conference followed eight months of study by a planning committee and aims to conserve and improve the welfare of all children across urban and rural areas. Florida committee members include Joseph F. Diver Judge W. S. Criswell Marcus Fagg Eunice Minton Malcom McClellan and several others from Jacksonville Daytona Beach Miami Tallahassee St. Petersburg Gainesville and beyond.
Florida Cracker novel The Yearling may be filmed near Silver Springs. M-G-M locations chief Jay Marchant and director Victor Fleming have taken 500 stills of locales, with plans for a feature production. Spurred by high dramatics, the project aims for wide fame with possible star Spencer Tracy. Deer may be brought in, with cooperation from the State Game Commission.
Sports journalist Bob Edge praised Lake County Florida fishing on a recent broadcast urging big mouth black bass anglers to visit. The Lake County Chamber of Commerce had earlier supplied information on camps beds food boats bait and guides after Edge's omission in a fishing book.
Supporters of United States Senator Charles O Andrews defend his Washington tenure as rivals gain momentum in Florida. They cite his long service from West Florida through Polk County and his teaching and legal work as proof of loyalty and understanding of Floridians. Roger W Babson commented on a severe storm disrupting travel, noting Florida residents should stay if possible.
A Bureau of Biological Survey report shows just over 5,000 American bison remain in the United States and Alaska, down from an estimated 60 million a century ago. Of 5,029 counted, 4,829 reside in the US and 200 in Alaska, with 600 to 800 unaccounted owners not included in the census. More than half of the herd lives in South Dakota.
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