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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1948
Page
4
In a nostalgic hometown notice, Mount Dora’s weekly Topic extols local merchants and readers. It touts nationwide circulation, high school graduation page features, and praise from industry publications while urging continued merchant support through advertising.
The writer recalls a Wednesday boat outing on a moonlit lake with P.R. at the motor, chasing a silver light and discovering a misleading glow from a distant airplane and car. The night ends with a damp, mossy mood as Thursday brings threatening air and rain over greenish water and orange groves.
A Florida press reader relays a humorous lament about the citrus shortage in the citrus belt. The writer recalls failed promotions, empty grocers, and a craving for fresh grapefruit leading to a improvised avocado grapefruit salad made from fruit they claim they "stole" from a neighbor's tree.
Readers praise the editorial A Parable and the front page story on shippers signing with Mutual. Karl Lehmann congratulates the editor for a good cause. A letter from Win C. Sleight commends Personalities and explains plans for Mount Dora features and a western trip touring national parks.
Four-H club boys of Lake county were urged to speak up with guidance from James N. Watson assistant county agent as part of a county program.
A historical passage extols rural virtue and American ideals. It emphasizes work with nature, personal pluck, and a square deal, then asserts American inheritance of freedom, education, worship, and civic duty. The text links farming life to opportunity and national identity for youth.
A fragmentary diary records a sequence of tropical showers and cool spells in Mount Dora. It describes a post-rain calm, fishing and boating plans, strong evening winds, a warm-to-cool temperature swing, and a splashing thunderstorm with a cool night after a hot afternoon.
A Vacation Bible School will open August 9 at the 13th Ave Church of Christ and run through August 20 with classes Monday through Friday from 9 to 11 a.m. Nightly services will be held at 7:45 for 10 nights in the chapel of the Christian Home and Bible School where the church meets.
The Mount Dora feminine softball league won 38 to 7 against Umatilla last Thursday at the high school field. A return match is scheduled for Friday evening, promising another spectator-friendly game.
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