Plans Complete For Leesburg Festival
Leesburg Florida delegates map a festival expected to draw at least 6000 people with motorcades from Ocala Jacksonville Gainesville Orlando Daytona Beach and DeLand. A parade a queen contest pageant water fight watermelon distribution boxing entertainment and a barn dance are planned with Miss Watermelon wed to Mr Lake County and a fireworks display closing the day.
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Leesburg
Fla
Ocala
Jacksonville
Gainesville
Orlando
Daytona Beach
DeLand
Palace Theatre
Watermelon Festival Committee
Hilda Hall
Florida
American Legion
John Alsop
Leesburg Woman’s Club
Watermelon
Lake County
Silver Lake Country Club
Triangle Rhythm Kings
Mrs. Lake County
Sanford Plans Grapefruit Cannery Site Initiated
Sanford plans to establish a grapefruit and orange canning factory. Bradenton reports the former city market building leased to house an interdenominational tabernacle. Hialeah notes rapid progress on the Dade County Agricultural High School auditorium construction.
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Sanford
Bradenton
Hialeah
Dade County Agricultural High School
Sears Roebuck Opens New Orlando Store
The Orlando Sears Roebuck store opens on Orange Avenue with twenty departments and an all-encompassing range from men's wear to home appliances and radios. Store manager Charles S. Purcell promises satisfaction with a money back guarantee as staffers welcome central Florida shoppers.
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Central Florida
Orlando
Sears- Roebuck Company
United States
Charles S. Purcell
Central Flor
Orange Avenue
Paradise
East Washington Street
Sears-Roebuck
Sporting Goods Department
Automobile
Sears-Roebuck and Company
Purcell
Florida
Sears
County Wide Meeting Promotes Lake County Development
The meeting featured W L E Barnett of the State Forestry Association who outlined Florida paper pulp potential. He noted depleted northern forests and said Lake County could support a pine timber crop with up to 16 mills in thirty years, citing a Panama City plant employing 500 workers and a total payroll around 1 200.
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Lake County
Eem
France
U. S
Lake
Barnett
Harber
Leesburg
White
Mount Dora
Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Brown
County Chamber
Mr. Bowman
Bowman
Girls Glee Club
Promi
W. L.E. Barnett
State Forestry Association
Florida
United States
Canada
Panama City
Demonstration to Kill Water Hyacinth Planned by Bartow Man
Mr. Roland G. Hill of Bartow will demonstrate a new spray at a pond on the Eustis road foot of Hudson Hill to kill water hyacinth and other weeds. He says effects appear in ten days and full disappearance in three to four weeks if depths or currents allow. claims no harm to fish. The hyacinth multiplies rapidly from April to September. Pensacola Bay project notes $3 000 000 for bridge and casino development at Pensacola Beach.
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Roland G. Hill
Bartow
Eustis Road
Hudson Hill
Hill
State road link between 17 and 5 approved
Tampa Free Press reports a new state road connection between State Roads 17 and 5 with a project cost of $200,000. The plan promises improved regional access and traffic flow upon completion.
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Tampa Free Press
First National Bank announces rate reductions on deposits
Notice states First National Bank of Mount Dora will pay 3 percent interest on time deposits and six month certificates starting July 1 1931. Reductions aim to meet lower rates obtainable from liquid securities and declines in rates paid by other banks in Lake county and across Florida. Similar cuts will occur in other banks on July 1.
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First National Bank of
Mount Dora
Florida
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