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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1926
Page
6
Plans cover new courthouses and city halls in DeFuniak Springs Auburndale Clermont and St. Augustine plus expansions like a 1500000 bank extension in eustis and a 125000 school in faded city. hotel theater and street work advance in Tampa Daytona Beach Palm Beach and other locales with mills plants and bridges.
The notice lists infrastructure and development plans across several cities. Eustis construct a 2 mile side and spur track for the Atlantic Coast Line. Fort Myers will build 16 new bungalows. Clearwater gains a new national bank. Plant City strawberry growers receive 2 million dollars for 1926. Jacksonville plans widen Riverside Avenue. Hotel Divine Taylor hotel project bids. Clearwater Harbor causeway progresses. Lake Worth Lake Avenue extension westward. Fernandina to build two bridges over Chunky River. Milton Telephone Exchange upgrades. Daytona Beach aviation field constructed. Lake City to get a new broom factory.
Orlando Republican chairman W. Lawson announces a bid to divide Florida into North and South Florida. Judge E C Davis endorses the plan, citing Tallahassee access, unequal taxation, and climatic and industrial differences as reasons, with a boundary proposed from Volusia northeast to the Gulf.
A fragment notes the region establishing a new capital and creating government machinery as part of regional development efforts. It mentions South Florida but lacks specific dates or named entities. The read portion implies an organizational reformation toward formal governance.
Bible School to be held in Educational Hall at 9 45 for all ages. In Princess Theatre a Men’s Bible Class led by Dr. Crouch at the same hour. Preaching services in Princess Theatre at 11 and 7 30. B Y P U meets there at 6 30 ending with a song service.
Elias Seccombe of Derby and Gardiner P. White of South Norwalk bought the eight acre Dickerman tract in the city limits through M. C. Williams agency. The tract is described as beautiful and very choice and the new owners plan development of the property.
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