Let’s Pull Together Mount Dora Business Unity Call
Downtown Mount Dora and the Golden Triangle Shopping Center should unite to boost cross referrals and patronage. Merchants from both areas, drawing customers from nearby towns, are urged to collaborate for mutual growth within the city limits.
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Golden Triangle
Mount Dora
Sylvan
Eustis
Tavares
Umatilla
Tangerine
Lake Ola
DeLand
Sanford
Daytona Beach
Sumter County
Welcome Spring Arrives Officially in Early Spring
The article notes spring begins officially at 3 05 p m EST on March 20 after a harsh winter. It cautions that weather may not immediately improve, but foresees buds, blossoming trees, garden chores, lawn care, and time for fishing and relaxation despite lingering cold. It ends with a nod to a distant poet’s line about summer.
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Henry Timrod
Greater Dead Than Famous Voices of Forgotten Genius
Curtis D. McDougall's book profiles artists scientists and thinkers who were mocked or poor in life but later celebrated. It cites Bach Byron da Vinci Mozart Chaucer Whitman Poe and others and notes how fame often follows posthumous recognition despite hardship and ridicule.
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Curtis D. McDougall
Northwestern University
Johanna Sebastian
Bach
Lord Byron
Geoffrey Chaucer
Leonardo da Vinci
Billy Mitchell
Wolfgang Mozart
Paul Revere
Barbara Fritchie
Henry W. Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier
Thomas Chatterton
Garret
Chaucer
Canterbury
Tales
Walt. Whitman
Whitman
Edgar Allen Poe
McDougall
Mount Dora Letter Critics Filthy Plays at IceHouse
A Mount Dora reader writes to the editor condemning the IceHouse Players for staging Tea and Sympathy as too risqué. The letter argues the few annual performances should avoid sordid content to keep supporters engaged.
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IceHouse
Mount Dora Lodge 238 F and A M Meets Tonight
Mount Dora Lodge 238 F and A M will hold a regular meeting Thursday at 8 p.m. The Entered Apprentice Degree will be conferred. All Masons are invited and refreshments will be served.
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F.&a.m
Mount Dora Lodge
Temptation vs Funds Stalls Personal Purchase
A resident admits repeated temptations to buy something but cites insufficient funds as the barrier. The confession notes financial constraint and self restraint shaping their shopping behavior.
Retail markup tensions loom at May hearings
The National Commission on Food Marketing will hold hearings in Washington May 5 to 8 on retail practices with witnesses from food chains wholesalers labor unions consumer groups and trading stamps. Officials note margins rose to about 21 percent in the last decade and seek reasons and consumer benefit. The hearings also cover cattle lamb marketing in Cheyenne and Fort Worth livestock sessions.
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Washington
National Commission On Food Marketing
Cheyenne
Wyo
Denver
Colo
Fort Worth
Texas
Bernhard Schroeder Dies at 82 in Mount Dora
Bernhard Schroeder, longtime Mount Dora resident since moving from Chicago, died Tuesday at age 82. He founded local clubs including Mount Dora Golf Club and the Men's Garden Club and belonged to the Yacht Club. Survived by widow Ruby, daughter Mrs. Emmett Fleming of Greenwich, Conn., son Henry C. Schroeder of Kenilworth, Ill., and brother Carsten Schroeder of Mount Dora. Rehbaum Funeral Home handling arrangements.
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Bernhard Schroeder
Mount Dora
Schroeder
Chicago
Carsten Schroeder
Rehbaum Funeral Home
Easter Seals Campaign Treasurer Named for Mount Dora
George J. White Sr. of the First National Bank of Mount Dora will be campaign treasurer for the 32nd Easter Seal appeal supporting crippled children and adults in the area. Zeta Alpha Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, via Mrs. Robert C. Partridge, coordinates Mount Dora volunteer sponsorship. The drive highlights Camp Challenge, Florida's Seal Camp, started in 1961 and expanding each summer.
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George J. White Sr
First National Bank of
Mount Dora
Zeta Alpha
Beta’ Sigma Phi
Robert C. Partridge
Florida
Baseball Tickets Being Sold Here
The 1965 Major League Spring Training Schedule of the Florida Grapefruit League is available at the Lake County Chamber of Commerce in Tavares. Major League teams training in Florida during March and April are the White Sox Dodgers Reds Athletics Phillies Tigers Pirates Mets Orioles Twins Astros Senators Cardinals Yankees Braves.
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Florida Grapefruit
Lake County
Carver Heights High Launches Book Drive
Carver Heights High School in Leesburg begins a book drive to stock the school library before re-evaluation. Librarian Mrs. D. B. Bell says they seek high school level books and asks donors to call Leesburg 787-5873 or contact her directly.
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Carver Heights High School
Leesburg
D. B. Bell
Thoughts Discarded Later Highlighted in Journal Terse note
Readers are reminded that certain opinions published here may be revised or rejected at a later date. The piece notes the evolving nature of commentary and the possibility of changes over time.
Junior College Leadership Workshop at Leesburg Campus
Daylong event gathers leaders from Daytona Beach to North Florida junior colleges and invited high school student body presidents from Lake and Sumter. Dr. James L. Wattenbarger delivers the luncheon address at 1 30 p m at Lancer's Leesburg. Jeff Wright presides as S G A Lake Sumter president. Workshops cover honors courts publications fundraising and college activities.
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Daytona Beach Junior College
Brevard Junior College
Central Florida Junior College
St. John’s Junior College
Lake City
Jeff Wright
Webster
Groveland
Diana Jackson
Fairfax
Iowa
Cheryl Graddy
Leesburg
Ron Muraro
Mount Dora Annexation Bill Noted For 1965 Session
Notice to whom it may concern states the city seeks legislative action to amend the charter by annexing Road 19 A territory from Old Highway north to near State Road 441. The measure would extend Mount Dora jurisdiction over the added area. Public notice posted at Mount Dora City Hall on March 17, 1965.
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Florida
Mount Dora
Ated Fenis
A.D
City Hall
City of
R. Wagner
Roy Christopher
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Winn Dixie
New York Society of Security Analysts
Big Chain
National Cash Register Co
Leavittown
Supermarket News
AAA
Carver Heights
Pines
Uy Auer
Florida City
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