Tom Sawyer parody and snowbound meters in 1951 Florida
The column riffs on Walt Patton directing a Tom Sawyer era play with IceHouse juniors while noting quirks of 1951 teen culture. It then reports a humorous Korea leaflet diary and a Saskatoon winter parking meter experiment, imagining Mount Dora adopting electric meter heaters or air conditioning for car owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatoon
Sask
Can
Dora
Atoon
Mount Dora
Donnelly
Grandmother Suffers Hip Fracture in Norfolk Hospital
Mrs. Varina L. Taylor, grandmother of Mrs. L. W. Coleman, fell last week and sustained a fractured hip. She is receiving treatment at Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia.
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L. W. Coleman
Varina L. Taylor
Norfolk General Hospital
Norfolk
Sorrento Social Set For Monday
The come back box social and general good time by the village of Sorrento will be held Monday at 6 30 p m in the Civic Center. Sponsored by the Sorrento Mount Plymouth Civic association the af fair is open to the public. Ladies bring boxes for two with names inside men bid on the boxes. Iced watermelon coffee and other beverages served. A funny hat contest closes the event with a parade and prizes from Mount Dora and Sorrento merchants to aid Sorrento in regaining its standing in Lake county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sorrento
Sorrento-Mount Plymouth
Mount Dora
Lake County
Interdenominational Union Meeting At Mt Carmel M B
The Interdenominational Union met at Mt Carmel M B church in Tangerine with Rev A D Lannon and Rev Williams delivering sermons And the Union plans a Pallbearers meeting in Apopka this Sunday Delegations from No Mount Dora and nearby churches attend The sick Mrs Rebecca Banks and Mrs Julia Thomas show slight improvement M Thomas reporter
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Mt. A.me
Bethel F.M
St. John P.B
Triumph Brotherhood
Suen
Mt. Carmel M.B
Tangerine
A. D. Lannon
McNai
No. Mount Dora
Rebecca Banks
Julia Thomas
M. Thomas
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Walter J. Patton
Sam Clemens
Tom Sawyer
Clemens
Mark Twain
Patton
Huck Finn
Joe Harper
Meow
Aunt Polly
Mary Rogers
Twain
Walt Patton
IceHouse
Korea
Panmunjom
U.S
Anthony Stecher
U.S. Army Ret
Montverde
William F. Doehler
Doehler
Florida
Gulf
Douglas
H. J. Bales & Son
Eustis
East Town
Travelers Family Hospital
John Alden Murray
Real Estate and Insurance
Sylvan Shores
the Travelers
Hartford
Free World
Christian Science Monitor
The
Norway St
Boston
Mass
U.S. A
Sone
S. Donnelly
Meat Department
U S
U. S
Wieners
Sam
Venent
Sally Southern
AK Conditioned
California
Sunkist Lemons
del Monte
Luke’s
Vienna
Dixie Lily
Scott County
Lipton
Frostee
Pillsbury’s
Gerber
Armour
Stokely’s Party
Gisco
Coca - Cola
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