Mount Dora prepares for new Episcopal Church amid growth
Announcement by prominent resident outlines plans to erect an Episcopal Church on the site within a year. Community notes report a fish fry at Lake Ola Beach, a cake contest winners list, and local marriages and honors, including Scott Venetian Blind Co opening and a high school valedictorian.
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Mount Dora
Cadimores Taah
Iman
Lake Ola Beach
Ray
Y . Parker
Jim Simpson
King's Daughters
C. C. Moorhead
Thomas Campbell
Anna H. Linderman
S. L. Thompson
J. S. Wilson
Dorothy Ery
H. L. Coleman
David Simpson
J.J. West
Snow Drift Company
James Bryant
Rr Mount
Plymouth
Bryant
Orange Mental Hospital
Lake County
R. E. Norris
Richard L. Scott
Scott Venetian Blind Co
Third and
Simpson Sts
Scott
Leesburg
Kiwanis
American Legion
Junior Chamber of Commerce
The
Elks Club
Paul Clifford Mosteller
A. J. Mosteller
N. Donnelly
Murray State College
Murray
Kentucky
Mosteller
W. M. Kennedy
U.S. Arts
Fort Benning
Georgia
Florida Southern College
Lakeland
Mary Ann Brotherson
Mount Dora High School
Charles Wareing
Stanley Wareing
Life Begins at Sixty and Male Menopause Reflections
The piece discusses aging sex drive in men and women, noting testes and adrenals continue hormones. It cites eunuch patients, older clergymen seeking help, and the role of mutual stimulation in lasting intercourse. It mentions women’s prudish upbringing and marital divorces tied to sex life.
Local awe in tame wildlife along Mount Dora docks
A town note recounts a woman feeding minnows and fish at a dock inspiring tame wildlife including a named bass called Johnnie Bench. The tale contrasts real training with TV animal shows and adds miscellaneous notes on a painted bunting spotted on Alexander Street and a grim cat-kitten statistic.
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Alexander Street
Birds of North America
Book Worm Book
Topic
Fifth Avenue
Mount Dora
U.S.A
Letters defend Al Blackburn against slander in Mount Dora
Readers defend Al Blackburn from a recent critical letter, noting his civic service with Rotary, Red Cross, and the Mount Dora Library Board. The writer argues council actions on the old library are nonbinding and aims for economical city funding, urging support and fundraising for the museum and historical society.
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al Blackburn
Blackburn
Frank Clifton
Gordon Dake
Mount Dora
Pentagon
Cheek
Rotary Club
Chamber of Commerce
J. Blackburn
Lake County
American Red Cross
Concerned Citizens of
Congress battles regional bias in grant bill distribution
Florida Congressman Al Ullman and a coalition push against a regional bias in the Community Development Block Grants Bill. The plan favored industrial belt cities like Cleveland over Jacksonville, with an amendment to remove bias defeated 261 to 149. Thirteen Florida reps backed elimination, signaling future organizing for similar money bills.
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Washington
South
Plains
Fifth
Florida
Cleveland
Ohio
Jacksonville
Senate
House
Sweet Adelines Dinner Show Thanks Mount Dora Support
The Sweet Adelines Sound of Sunshine Chapter thanks Mount Dora supporters for the May 13 dinner show afterglow. The note celebrates the big success and promises more barbershop singing in the future from Kitty G Ano.
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Sweet Adelines
Mount Dora
Kitty G
Quiet House After Poet Margaret Gale
A resident teen leaves behind a cluttered scene with skateboards by walls and socks under chairs. Dresser drawers hang loose and a sign about baby hamsters hints at a busy home. Glasses and peanut shells litter floors as the narrator muses on life’s quiet return.
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George Coffin
John
Emily
Mildred Anderson
F. M. Hadlock
Maryann
Richard Koebke
Silver
Sorrente Fends
Cowart
Mascotte
Claudia Knight
Jim
Sorrento
Orlando
Florida State Chamber of Commerce
Mount Bora
A.M. Liveright
West Fifth Avenue
Mount
Sphus C. Luke, M.D
F.r.cs
Johnnie Bench
By Margo Hosford
Kelly
Congress
Richard Kelly
Lnh
al Ullman
Ways and Means
Coalition
Poet's Corner
Margaret Gale
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