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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1940
Page
4
A Lake County writer praises the Home Guard spirit and national unity after Roosevelt's reelection. The piece urges Americans to forget party divisions, embrace the President, and march together for the country’s safety and progress. It highlights patriotism, salute etiquette, and civic duty.
The city explores additional funding from various sources to clear and beautify the front area down to the underpass. The text also contemplates weather, water needs, and a request for a woman from a middle western state who could sit by water to make it rain, noting weeds dying from drought.
A speaker urges balanced patriotism stressing unity for the common good while preserving freedom of thought. The address calls for tolerance among all groups and both political parties, insisting governing and governed share responsibility to sustain democracy and peace.
The Mount Dora Town Council adopts a formal resolution mourning Tracy M. Kramer former president of the council. The document expresses condolence to his family and notes his four years of service to the town, with the resolution to be entered in minutes and copies sent to the family and local press.
Mr and Mrs Thomas F Franklin report they now live in Minneola and praise Lake County after visiting the Florida Exhibit at the World’s Fair New York. Franklin, once with the New York Stock Exchange, has retired to Lake County. Join the Red Cross. Advertising doesn’t cost it pays.
Thousands pay homage to the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. the Harquet Beechers Stowe estate at Manda Am Mee Sacredmme Anhurley welcomed visitors who marveled at its natural grandeur, including the giant Stole Om and the majesty of Vorynon Gall Oak.
A photographer advises using any ordinary object as a starting point to build a photo series. Show the owner’s help and create scenes such as a scythe in use or a doll buggy with a teddy bear to generate a sequence with a story.
The Church of Christ at Lake Franklin Park on Rossiter Street Sanford Road invites worship attendance at 9:45 a.m. Bible study, 11:00 a.m. preaching and communion, 7:30 p.m. evening services, and Thursday 7:30 p.m. prayer meeting.
Catholic Church and First Presbyterian Church in Eustis list services and parish details. Mass times weekly confessions baptisms and midweek services are noted plus pastor names and youth and auxiliary group schedules.
Pastor Rev L A Ford announces Sunday school at 10:00 a m and worship services Sunday morning. A weekly meeting occurs Tuesday at 7 pm and Y P E Friday at 7 45 pm inviting all to attend.
Reverend O. E. Liden leads morning worship at 11:00 a m and evening service at 7 30 p m at the Groveland Florida church under the Augustana Synod with pastor Rev O E Liden.
The First Church of Christ Scientist in Eustis lists services Sundays at 11 a.m. and Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. A free reading room operates daily 3 to 5 p.m. at 117 Eustis Street. Golden Triangle Lodge 874, Loyal Order of Moose, meets at K of P Hall on the 1st and 3rd Mondays.
Florida officials project a cotton crop of about ten and a half million pounds for 1940, with an estimated average yield near 154 pounds per acre. The Department reports the current week’s figures and outlines the anticipated total based on area planted and weather conditions.
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