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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1931
Page
10
Avalon Pharmacy at 497 North Orange Avenue in Orland is described as a progressive, well known firm with a broad apothecary selection. The review praises courteous service, quality at the right price, a complete department setup, and a prescription line using pure drugs, predicting growing patronage.
O G Carmichael at 1109 East Colonial Drive offers complete dry cleaning and dyeing under expert direction. The firm emphasizes speed, quality, and public service, cleaning delicate fabrics for both men and women and returning garments odorless, pressed, and fashionable. The management is praised as leading local business figures supporting community progress.
Russ Mattress Co operates a 1122 West Church Street factory in Orlando making Inner Spring mattresses in demand locally. Under experienced leadership the firm remodels Grand View Hotel mattresses in Eustis and has supplied homes in Mount Dora while expanding and earning regional recognition for quality and durability.
The Bumby Hardware Co at 129 South Orange Avenue and 102 West Church Street offers a complete line of high grade hardware. Staff are courteous and ready to demonstrate the latest inventions. A center for farmers and neighbors, the firm is praised for progressive public spirited policies and hometown hospitality.
The Howell Sanitarium at 200 West Gore Avenue Orlando is praised for expert nursing bright cheery rooms and modern equipment. It specializes in stomach bowel and rectal ailments with careful diet and accurate diagnostic care under leading physicians.
A local shop at 310 South Terry Street in Orland offers all wool materials and first class trimmings for tailor made suits and overcoats. The ad touts careful fit, courteous service, trusted guidance, and quick fittings, urging men to choose Grimes The Tailor for style and value.
The Washington Star quotes the sage Hi Ho of China Town calling bad leadership unable to untangle the current mess. He likens it to a cat playing with a ball of silk, arguing the group cannot be trusted to fix the tangle.
A brief meditation on recognizing illness and knowing when health ends. The piece contrasts common awareness of sickness with uncertainty about true wellbeing and suggests self assessment as key.
Uncle Eben warns against overreaching size in a quote about avoiding danger and the folly of becoming too large. The piece uses rural dialect to humorously urge restraint and caution in personal growth and bold action.
The line praises an orator who can discuss low things with sharp insight, great things with dignity, and moderate matters with measured temper, attributed to Cieere.
A Chicago News aphorism notes that success often comes from action and self-reliance as a man answers his own prayers by getting busy.
The Mather Wagoner Furniture Co at 801 West Church Street Orlando showcases a large stock of furniture for the modern home. The store emphasizes fair pricing, quality materials, and strong service while inviting the public to visit and inspect offerings and gain ideas for home furnishing.
Paris Le Matin notes that many travelers crossing the English Channel commemorate the journey with tattoos such as anchors or crossed flags. The curiosity centers on the cultural appeal of permanent ink to celebrate voyages and distant lands.
The text traces the white potato from Peru to Europe and then to the Americas, noting its ancient Inca cultivation and later limited early adoption by Europeans. It mentions its spread from elite gardens to common knowledge among common people over centuries.
A quotation attributed to Mrs. Owen Kildare asserts that most women are deceitful and truthful women are rare, claiming deceit is the weapon women are forced to use by men to achieve their aims.
The bureau of standards notes that paint is not a true preservative like impregnation treatments. A more impermeable coating helps prevent weathering by reducing exposure to the elements.
An English inventor proposes a motor car convertible into an airplane, a concept noted as novel yet reminiscent of historic horse and carriage innovation. The report frames the idea as ambitious but unclear on practical progress or feasibility.
A Orlando advertisement extols the Avalon Hotel at 489 North Orange Avenue as a modern, up to date establishment offering reasonable European plan rates. It highlights attentive staff, comfortable rooms with ventilation and hot and cold water, welcoming unescorted ladies, traveling salesmen, farmers, tourists, and emphasizes convenience for those living away from home. The notice urges readers to choose the Avalon as a quality, home away from home.
The jewel bearing use for watch pivots began with Nicholas Fahr in the mid 1700s. Five was the first count used, quickly adopted by Swiss watchmakers. Diamonds and sapphires preceded rubies, which proved unsatisfactory and came later.
One of the world’s oldest trees has been located at St. Vincent in the Cape Verde islands. Estimated to be at least five thousand years old, it sprouted about eighty years before Christ. The colony calls the ancient giant the dragon tree.
Report notes a European volcano site listed for sale as a house location. It highlights central heating and access to amenities as key advantages.
The Washington Star notes that 86,000 acres are needed each year to supply the flavorings for part of the chewing gum and candy consumed in the United States. The oils come from peppermint and spearmint, with spearmint used entirely for gum and peppermint also used in candy and toothpaste.
A method to transfer pictures involves dissolving one percent drams of yellow soap in hot water then adding eight percent fluid ounces of spirits of turpentine when cold. The solution is applied to the image and the picture is pressed onto blank paper or linen to transfer the ink.
A fragment discusses the Teal value to a man of the living, reflecting on work or vocation as a key measure of life. The text references Lawrence Pearsall Jas in relation to moral economy and personal effort.
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