Year Round Florida Home Adopts Villa Dora Style
An Illinois style offer touts a 3 4 acre hillside property near Florida as a year round residence with a view and spring, featuring two bedrooms, bath, living room, kitchen, screened porch, basement, pumping plant, and an integrated garage. The ad notes canna and bulb gardens, chicken housing, and potential for tropical flower gardening, asking 5000 dollars with 2000 cash. It also contrasts income and residential property value principles for real estate appraisals.
Lake shore cottage sale detail and financing plan
A lake view lot sold for 2,800 with a well built stucco cottage in excellent condition. The home features a living room with fireplace two bedrooms a good bath a large kitchen porches and water system. Build cost 6,600 with loans and payments totaling 4,108 and monthly payments of 45.50.
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Lake Shore Drive
Desirable Lake Dora area home and commercial lot for sale
Property on Donnelly Street at Tenth Avenue lists for 150 dollars per front foot along Route No. 2, ideal for automobile showrooms. A Lake Shore Drive residence near Lake Dora is offered at 25,000 dollars with three bedrooms, large living room, sun parlor, lakefront lawn, furnace, and electric systems. Also, Lake Franklin Park Unit No 2 near completion features a bright living area with fireplace and archaway to dining, two bedrooms sharing a bath, plus a garage, priced at 4250 dollars.
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Donnelly Street
Tenth Avenue
Lake Shore Drive
Lake Dora
Hockemeyer
Lake Franklin Park Unit No
Leesburg Welcomes Florida Munici palities League Visit For Lake Griffin Trip
Leesburg hosts the Florida League of Municipalities on a Lake Griffin fishing expedition held Saturday after the group attended the league convention in town. The Day tona Beach delegation, numbering over fifty, arrived by motorcade with banners and bugles and stayed about 30 minutes to tour northern Florida and south Georgia. Refreshments were provided by the local commerce chamber. The excursion, sponsored by the Putnam County chamber of commerce and directed by Charles B. Harris, included seventeen Putnam county committees and visits to the Dickson grape enterprise in Monroe.
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Leesburg
Florida League of Municipalities
Daytona Beach
South Georgia
Commerce Chamber
Fruitland
Dickson Grape Enterprise
Monroe
Putnam County Chamber of Commerce
Charles B. Harris
L. J. McLeod
C. C. Middleton
Grape Growers’ Club
Putnam County
Crescent City
Florahome
Frances
Huntington
Interlachen
Kenwood
Lake Como
Mannville
Melrose
Palatka
Peniel
Pomona
San Mateo
Satsuma
Welaka
Leesburg Sees Record Arrival of Waterlemon Buyers and Railroad Men
More waterlemon buyers are in Leesburg than in any preceding season. Registrations show daily additions to the ranks, with railroad men also arriving in greater numbers than ever before. All Leesburg hotels have been full for two weeks, turning away guests or sending them elsewhere.
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Leesburg
Watermelon Shipments and Lake County Citrus Returns 1927
The 1927 Florida watermelons total 8 480 carloads with 2 429 cars from Leesburg district. Putnam County joined the Grape Growers Club in a 28- car motorcade of 116 people touring the area. Lake County citrus output fell 30 percent from 1926–27 but value rose by about $500,000, with Florida Citrus Exchange packing houses contributing 246 108 boxes and $859 059.15, averaging $3.49 per box, suggesting a near $3.5 million county return.
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Florida
Leesburg
United States Department of Agriculture
Florida State Marketing Bureau
Georgia Bureau of Markets
F. H. Willson
Putnam County
Lake
Grape Growers’ Club
MacKenzie-Stow
Lake County
F.o.b. Packing House
Florida Citrus Exchange
Exchange Packing Houses
F.o.b
Vegetable crops to cover over three thousand acres in Martin County
Florida This Week reports more than 3000 acres in Martin County will be planted to vegetables this season with tomatoes peppers and beans as the main crops. Irish potatoes eggplants cabbage strawberries and cakes are also grown The state Commissioner of Markets L M Rhodes urged farmers to improve grades and packs advertise to create demand and market cooperatively at a Kiwanis farmer picnic in Zolfo Springs this week.
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Martin County
L. M. Rhodes
Kiwanis
Zolfo Springs
Montverde
United States
ForestrY conservation steps to visit Florida
W C McCormick director of education for the American Forestry Association will soon arrive in Florida to discuss funding for a statewide education drive on preventing woodland fires with the Florida Forestry Association. Florida also made history by electing a woman to the state Railroad Commission, Mrs. Robert L. Eaton of Monticello.
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Florida
W. C. MceCormick
Washington, D. C
American Forestry Association
Florida Forestry Association
Florida Railroad Commission
Robert L. Eaton
Monticello
First Woman Appointed to U S Railroad Commission
The Florida Railroad Commission states she is the first woman to hold a railroad commission position in the United States, marking a historic milestone in the industry.
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Florida Railroad Commission
Railroad Commission
United States
Florida sugar bowl hopes rise with executive move
P G Bishop resigns from Cuba's largest sugar operation to become vice president of the Southern Sugar Company. The firm is developing 100000 acres of Everglades muck land near Canal Point and Clewiston Florida for sugar cane plantations with plans to boost production.
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Florida
P. G. Bishop
Cuba
Southern Sugar Company
Everglades
Canal Point
Clewiston
Florida Cities Seek Industrial Growth In 1929 Plans
Florida towns including Tallahassee Quincy and Stuart aim to expand industrial plants as the Jackson Bluff hydro electric plant nears completion. The Manatee Canners Inc will open Palmetto canning factory with 250000 capital. Florida leads in motor vehicle registrations with five countries ahead and new auto legislation to benefit motorists.
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Tallahassee
Quincy
Florida
Jackson Bluff
Gulf States
Palmetto
Palmetto News
Manatee Canneries, Inc
Grape Shipments and Council Bid Positions in Mount Dora
The article argues Florida grapes need iced transport to reach profits, notes domestic demand cannot absorb annual production, and discusses Mount Dora’s plant sale where a higher bid was offered with cash backing, while the council’s lower offer is questioned and may be voted down to secure full value.
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P. S
Mount Dora
Public Service Corporation
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Villa Dora Hotel
A. C. Quixley
Real Estate Board
J. G. LaDue
M. M. Javens
F. G. MacMahon
Donnelly
Fifth Avenue
Mount Dora, Florida
Leesburg Life
Stuart
Business Men’s Association of
United Kingdom
France
Canada
Australia
Tasmania
Germany
M. M. Smith
Florida State Automobile Association
American Automobile Association
Hudson
Essex
SuperSix
C. C. Dooley
Mt. Dora, Fla
Cruskett
Fla
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