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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1938
Page
4
The Lake Worth Herald reports Florida pineapple shipments will top 6 000 crates this season. The only continental United States pineapple packing plant is in Boynton Florida, signaling a healthy industry comeback.
A Florida Citrus publication notes Mrs. Jean McDonald of Calgary Alberta uses unsweetened grapefruit juice as a nightly and morning eye rinse. She says the juice soothes and keeps her eyes bright, with others noting the effect.
The Florida reader notes say native pasture adds 10 pounds per year per acre for beef cattle, while improved pasture yields 100 to 210 pounds. Agronomist W. E. Stokes from Gainesville emphasizes pasture improvement as a key to higher returns in beef production.
Karl Lehmann secretary of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce travels through New England for five weeks showing up to date Florida and Lake County motion pictures. He highlights agricultural resources including orange and grapefruit groves grapes watermelons and winter vegetables and portrays Bok Tower Silver Springs Ravine Gardens McKee Jungle Gardens and Marine Studios. He emphasizes that most Florida beauty spots are within one day’s ride of Lake County and aims to attract winter visitors to the state.
Kiwanis International plans support for rural youth through farms and civic activities. At the San Francisco convention the group proposed aiding 4 H and Future Farmers of America members to buy pure bred stock and poultry, promote diversified agriculture, and expand vocational agriculture in high schools. The program also seeks to form town and county groups for cooperative study of city and country issues.
Arthur Brisbane praised Florida soil and the Melbourne Times highlights H L Lyons of Pompano who began with five acres and now cultivates 8000 acres, using drag lines tractors and many animals, employing hundreds seasonally. The example supports broad opportunity in Florida farming with careful work and management.
A short exhortation urging cheerful talk about daily joys over gloom. It emphasizes optimism, faith, and resilience, noting life’s trials and the compensating joy, urging readers to radiate happiness and spread optimism.
A terse aphorism notes the difficulty for a deceitful individual to balance income and expenses. The line suggests moral judgment on greed and the consequences of dishonest gain.
The author describes a Florida State Hotel Association convention visit to Havana aboard the Florida from Miami. He praises the voyage on the P. and O. steamship Florida, the crew’s attentiveness, onboard meals, and comfortable accommodations. Havana impresses with a blend of old world and neon modernity, bustling streets, hospitality, and the potential value of Cuban tourism to Florida.
Barbara Stanwyck returns to glamorous fare in Always Goodbye at the Princess Theatre with Herbert Marshall. The 20th Century-Fox drama features 24 costumes by Roger and a blend of beauty and dramatic appeal directed by Sidney Lanfield.
The writer encourages readers to choose Cuba for a summer trip describing it as a glorious vacation option for any length of stay. The column promises more details in a future installment while signaling a light, persuasive travel tone.
The Lake County Chamber of Commerce issues a monthly trade slogan blotter urging residents to patronize local businesses. The August prompt Does Your Money Come Back To You warns spending outside Lake County drains wealth while money spent locally stays to benefit the community and area merchants.
A Florida Agricultural Extension Service report shows Lake County growers averaged 158 boxes per acre with a net of 19 cents per box for owner supervision and an overall 10 cents per box for cooperating growers. Total Lake County grove area was 5 612 acres with 29 046 acres in all groves surveyed, and costs per acre excluding supervision stood at 104.83 dollars.
At State Theatre in Eustis Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland star in Tropic Holiday a Paramount musical romance set against a Mexican backdrop Milland portrays a young Hollywood writer Lamour plays a native daughter helping him escape comedy leads include Bob Burns and Martha Raye shows run Sunday and Monday
The Lake County data show per acre totals of 135.44 versus 107.23 elsewhere and owner supervision net returns of 30.61 versus 12.22. Box cost averages are 0.67 versus 0.72, and the box return averages are 0.86 versus 0.82. Lake County groves average 16 acres, 28 elsewhere, with 25.5 percent grapefruit trees compared with 31.2 percent.
The passage notes dusting napthalene and paradichlorobenzene into rat holes drives pests from walls. It mentions mosquitoes harming humans and hints at a marked production drop in milk cows due to insect bites. It ends with the idea that simple methods are often best.
Rev Kenneth G Rogers leads church services with 10:00 church school and 11:00 morning worship including a sermon Divine Guidance. Evening services at 7:30 feature an old fashioned song service directed by Mrs Clarence Gudgeon with 6:30 Epworth League.
All ages invited. On 1100 a.m. church service. B Y P U at 7:00 p.m. Mid week service Wednesday at B Y P U at 6:30 p.m. 7:30 evening service.
The notice lists a church service at St Thomas Episcopal in Eustis Florida with Sunday School at 9 45 a m and Holy Communion at 11 00 a m. The sermon is by Rector D T Johnson. Organist is Florence Gilbert Hanscom.
Church of Christ on Rossiter Street Sanford Road holds Bible study at 10 AM preaching and communion at 11 Sunday evening service at 7 15 Thursday prayer meeting and song service Bro Lawrence Mize is pastor purists invited. St Marys of the Lakes Catholic Church Grove Street Badger Avenue Eustis Rev Patrick Doyle pastor services 8 00 AM Clermont 10 00 AM Eustis first Friday Mass 7 30 AM.
Regular services held each Sunday at 11 a m and 7 00 p m Sunday School at 10 a m Prayer meeting at 7 30 p m Come worship with us at the church.
The First Church of Christ Scientist in Eustis Florida invites the public to Sunday School at 9 45 a m Sunday worship at 11 a m with the topic Love Wednesday 8 p m testimonies and remarks on Christian Science. A tea room in the Fountain Inn Bail 117 Eustis street is open daily 3 to 5 p m except Sundays and holidays. The Bible and all Christian Science literature may be read borrowed or purchased.
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