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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1928
Page
10
Mount Dora promotes shopping locally to boost growth. New business by O J Pierce will offer high grade vulcanizing and tire repair. Listings include a $4000 two bedroom bungalow with private baths and several lots ranging from $1050 to $6500, plus unfinished and stucco cottages for sale near town.
In a continued page one report, Mount Dora gathered a 9 to 3 win over Winter Park as Morris and Hale contributed hits and Adkins hit a long homer. Vaden, Pike, Stapleton and Overstreet aided with key plays and runs as Brock and Avalitt advanced runners. The game featured a double steal by Hale and Adkins and strong fielding including a tag by Carlisle on Adkins at the plate. Community speakers praised Lake and Orange counties with musical interlude by Leesburg High band and Tavares Boy Scouts assisting.
A Lake county citrus meeting highlighted volunteer work behind forming a clearing house to organize growers and shippers. Officials hope to sign up sixty percent of this year's crop, after which the Committee of Fifty will resign and a new directorate will be elected for seven districts.
Speaker of the day lauded Lake county to underline its excellent citizenship, institutions and resources. He called the Lake County Chamber of Commerce the first such commercial body in the southern states and paid tribute to its pioneers and sustained activities over many years.
Dud Adkins chips in with gilt framed homers as Hale seeks jinx busting fielding. Battle Averitt and Morris shine in the gardens with four high catches and key plays. Pike’s unassisted double play, Stapleton six strikeouts, Mount Dora steals nine, three double steals in a fracas.
Reclamation of 4,300,000 acres in the Florida Everglades is to start early in September after selling half of a 20 million dollar drainage bond issue approved by the 1927 legislature and upheld by the state supreme court. Polk county citrus growers received over 16 million dollars for their last crop, underscoring the area's agricultural impact. Electrical refrigerator exports surged from 1,443,782 to 3,684,981 dollars, with the United Kingdom accounting for the largest share at 419,368 dollars.
The 1928 pace in Jacksonville shows rapid industrial expansion led by business and civic leaders. Florida birth data from the State Department of Agriculture highlights migration patterns feeding industrial surveys nationwide.
West Florida Power gains permission from Floridia Company to string electric wires across Floridia property to the Quincy power house. The project switches from a two phase to a three phase circuit, ensuring uninterrupted city power. In weeks, Quincy will be lit from a new source.
Agricultural agent Frank Holland says Polk County farmers have a strong chance to profit from late spring crops despite adverse weather. He notes unusually cold dry spring and a recent damaging wind storm that harmed tender crops.
Banana shipments are starting small but will grow, says Am C Douglas of Toronto linked to Tropical Planting Co. He has been in Pensacola since last week for the new line into the port. The Clyde line Osceola will continue between Pensacola and Sanford until June 80, per Franklin D. Mooney, Clyde Steamship pres., relayed by H. G. White.
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