Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce Annual Report 1939
The Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce outlines 1939 activities across sports tourism highway advertising conventions merchants and miscellaneous. It lists officers directors and advisors, notes support for tennis baseball and other sports, tourist promotion including road signs and publications, convention entertainment, community donations, office services, and cooperation with local organizations.
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Mount Dora
Tracy M Kramer
H. W. Harlow
Geo. Coffin
J. J. West
David Edgerton
G. B. Hurlburt
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Shirley Schonenberger Robert
Eleanore Minkley
Dora
Lake County
Keller
Florida Old Age Benefits Offset in State Unemployment
Florida residents receiving Old Age and Survivor's Insurance benefits are not entitled to State Unemployment Compensation unless federal benefits are lower. If federal is less, the difference is paid by the state. Example shows a claimant getting $15 weekly state UC and $5 weekly old age benefits, receiving $10 from the state fund.
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Florida
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BASS ARE HITTING IN LAKE COUNTY NEAR MOUNT DORA
A Lake County scene portrays bass fishing near Mount Dora on a Florida Union Know Your Florida page. The image, from the Lake County Chamber of Commerce, is captioned The Bass are Hitting in Lake County and shows a favored fisherman's short cut near Mount Dora.
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Lake County
Mount Dora
Hoosier Soliloquy On Owning a Home in Florida
A Hoosier considers buying a Florida home versus renting. The verse laments winter costs and taxes while musing whether ownership appeals more due to a havens of warmth, urging decisive action amid doubts about rates and utilities. The piece ends with Shakespearean parody and an authorial signature.
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Hoosier
Florida
Shakespeare
New Englanders Stop At Fruitland Park Post Office
Postmaster Walter E. Clark reported that three cars with New England licenses halted at the Fruitland Park post office. Drivers said they viewed Lake County Chamber of Commerce colored motion pictures in New England last summer and were en route to visit the county, noted at the Lees kick off breakfast.
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Walter E. Clark
Fruitland Park
New England
Lake County
Stamp to honor doctor first used ether
The U S Post Office will feature Dr Crawford Williamson Long, a Georgia village physician, on a 2 cent stamp for first use of ether as an anaesthetic. Long is credited with pioneering ether anesthesia amid historical dispute over early claimants.
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Crawford Williamson Long
Georgia
U. S. Post Office Department
Doctor Long
Congress
Postoffice Department
Tong
T Salen
Scsmerince
England Spends Six Million Daily on War Effort
Francis Lewcock, Special Prizewinner in Exchange Practice, argues England spends about 6 million pounds daily on war needs. Most goes to wages for British goods, reducing impact if kept domestic. He says only about one million pounds daily funds foreign imports. Lewcock downplays U S actions, urges Britain to better present its case to Americans, praising American reporting and noting US magazines reveal German air raid mobility.
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Francis Lewcock
Stock Exchange
Oan Chamber of Commerce
England
United States
America
Lewcock
Europe
Uncle Sam's Almanac 1940 features diverse topics
Frederic J. Haskin issues the 1940 Uncle Sam's Almanac priced at 10 cents. It promises concise, engaging facts from gardens and music to science, the WPA, religion and Bible use, radio, insects, sports, presidential campaigns, and historic cartoons. It aims to inform everyday readers rather than compete with larger World Almanacs.
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Frederic J. Haskin
Haskie
Washington, D. C
WPA
Spessard Holland Live as Leading Governor Candidate
University of Florida students form a Holland for Governor club after a meeting of student leaders last week. The group plans to hold an organization event soon after the second semester begins, around February 6.
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Spessard Holland
University of Florida
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