Mount Dora Hotels and tourist accommodations
The Mount Dora area offers several first class hotels with modern amenities. The Mount Dora Hotel provides American plan, lake views, and an up-to-date grill. Sylvan Shores on Highway 441 features a coffee shop and recent renovations. Simpson Hotel on Fifth Avenue operates European plan with an in-house restaurant. Smaller prime lodgings also serve visitors. rates available from managers or the Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce.
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Mount Dora
Sylvan Shores
U. S. Highway 441
Fifth Avenue
City Business Institutions of Central Florida Listed
Three well equipped restaurants and a first class hardware store. Two barber shops and a sound banking institution. Four garages with first class agencies. An automobile display room and jewelry store. Two gift shops and two ladies ready to wear outlets. A dressmaking shop, two department stores, and an auto paint and body works shop. One bakery, pool hall, bowling alley, miniature golf, and a high class theater. A dancing school, six hotels, barbecue shop, caterer, and electric shoe repair. Three radio agencies, a lumber yard, one saw mill, five citrus packing plants, two dry cleaners, thirteen filling stations, three dairies, five real estate offices, five insurers, a furniture store, four doctors, and two attorneys.
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Florida
Mount Dora Businesses Proclaim Modern Services To Community
Five building contractors, a photographer, high class laundry and cattery, printing establishment, market, two cement plants, blacksmith, two feed stores, hospital, chiropodist, podiatrist, electric store, Western Union and Postal Telegraph offices, railway office, sheet metal shop, gas appliance store, fuel office with appliances, two florists, welding irrigation shop, locksmith, hatchery, interior decorating firm, two landscape artists plus other professionals announce updated services and capital investment supporting residents and visitors.
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Sineta
Western Union Te
Postal Telegraph Am
Railway Ress
Mount Dora
Lake County Bands in Concert December 7 and 8
Eustis and Leesburg bands stage benefit concerts December 7 at Municipal Auditorium and December 8 at Leesburg High School to raise funds for equipment and larger instruments. Featuring a 100 voice chorus and soloists Bob Hollenbeck Ralph Sims Graybill Parks, with tickets 35c/15c and 25c/15c. Proceeds support musical training for Lake County youth.
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Lake County
Eustis
Leesburg
Harry L. Parker
Florida Band Masters Association
Eustis High School
Martin
Irving ‘ Berlin
Bob Hollenbeck
Ralph Sims
Sousa
Musical Truth
Bob
Souraphone
Graybill Parks
Cornet
Country Club Opens Full 18 Hole Course
Lake County Country Club announces the full 18 hole course will be open for play on Thanksgiving Day. Greens and tees planted to winter rye are in excellent condition. Improvements promise a more attractive, enjoyable layout as Lee Kosten returns for a third season with assistant Danny Novalk. George Stevens joins to manage the grill and club house as the season begins December 1st.
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Lake County Country Club
Lee Kosten
Danny Novalk
George Stevens
Mana the Grill
Fall Flower Show Best Ever Held In Central Florida
The Lake County Home Demonstration women present a large fall display at the Tavares building, featuring bouquets by men, miniature gardens, and rare plants. More than 400 attended the first day, with county officials praising the event and no prizes or ribbons awarded.
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Lake County
New Home
Tavares
Frice
R. E. Norris
Col
C. E. Lester
The
Soil Conservation Office
J. M. Lowry
Montverde
J. W. King
Willard H. Sprague
Mount Dora
Florida
A. S. Herlong, Jr
Regulations Set For Gilbert Park Picnics
Gilbert Park welcomes picnickers with free water light and tables. Reservations with Mr Dean at Donnelly Park or his Gilbert Park home provide charcoal buckets for 25 cents each. No trespassing or cooking fires allowed. Trash must be placed in cans.
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Gilbert Park
Dean
Donnelly Park
Miniature Homes at U S 441 Attract Settlers and Visitors
Riley's Miniature Homes at the junction of Tavares and Eustis roads on U S 441 grow in popularity. Three cottages are rented for the season to guests from New York City and Indiana, with Col C Carson of West Point seasonally staying to hunt and visit the Eustis Gun Club. Other cottages host party weekends and overnight guests, while heated baths and showers, hot and cold water, and Green's Fuel heating add comfort. Rural life appeals as farm tractors gain radios and fencing replaces dueling rhetoric.
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Eustis Gun Club
Regies
Green
Lake County Fuel Company
Home Demonstration Building Dedicated in Lake County
Ormund Powers presided at the dedication of a $10,000 Home Demonstration building on the court house grounds. The facility serves the Lake County Home Demonstration women and the 4-H Club, part funded by a National Youth Administration project. Local officials and a Tallahassee agent spoke as the Eustis High School Band played.
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Ormund
Lake County
Ally Pelay Rade Henn
Tavares
Ia National Youth Administration
Court House
Karl Lehmann
Tallahassee
W. T. Nettles
Gainesville
R. E. Norris
W. F. Robinson
Leesburg
Lucie K. Miller
Eustis
New Lake County Recreation Director Named
Mr. Jack Nuttal, longtime Groveland recreation worker, becomes Lake County Department of Public Recreation director. He replaces William J. Weiscopf who left for a Tampa WPA post. Community recreation requests should go to Nuttal in Groveland. Schools may exhibit pupil handcrafts at the Lake County Fair in Eustis.
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Nuttal
Lake County
Groveland
William J. Weiscopf
Tampa
Works Progress Administration
Jack Nuttal
Eustis
Department of Public Recreation
Premium List Out for 1940 Central Florida Exposition
Orlando will host a bigger fair in February with new classes in the premium list. Prizes for stamp collections, arts and needle work for the blind, and a candid camera contest are among additions announced by Mr. Bickford. About 12,000 articles were entered last year and a 72 page booklet detailing premiums is now available from Central Florida Exposition headquarters in Orlando.
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Orlando
Central Florida
Florida
Dubsdread Dining Room Opens In Orlando
Dubsdread Dining Room in Orlando opens under the same management as Las Novedades Tampa. Celestino Landeira, longtime Las Novedades owner, promises the same high type cuisine and a nightly orchestra with dancing in the ballroom or patio. Four day service on engraved cards.
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Dubsdread
Orlando
Celestino Landeira
Tampa
Georgia Florida Scout Camp-oral At Daytona Beach
Regional Camporee in Daytona Beach hosts Georgia and Florida Scouts December 1 to 3 at City Island. About 300 boys in 65 patrols from Atlanta Columbus Macon and coastal cities join Central Florida Council troops from Orlando and Mount Dora. Activities include Gadget Period Scoutcraft knot tying fire building and a burlesque softball game by Daytona league players.
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Georgia
Florida
City
Daytona Beach
Region Six
United States
Atlanta
Columbus
Macon
W. Palm Beach
Tallahassee
Bradenton
Tampa
St. Petersburg
Jacksonville
Central
John Hackney
Ocean
Daytona Softball League
Boy Scout Movement
Sidney J. Meyer
Cletus Allen
Orlando
Harold V. Pace
Gulf Ridge Council
Cochairmen
The
Vapors
Gilbert Rush
Mount Dora
Jack Pease
Odell Redd
Norman Tuckett
Curtis Jackson
C. E. Carpenter
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VHS Utiilid
J. G. Ladue
Chamber of Commerce
Crane Furniture Co
Central Florida Exposition
Burton’s
Highland Ave. & Liberty
Atlantic and
City Service
Yowell
Yowell-Drew
Santa
Drew
Toyland
Yowell-Drew CO
Orlando, Florida
J. J. West
Nan J. Stuart
J. J. West Realty
Georgia, Florida
Campo-Ral
Thomas Parran
United States Public Health Service
T. S. Kennedy
Mount Dora, Fla
Willard I. Sprague
Claire F. Sprague
Circuit Court
Fifth Judicial Circuit
Theodore R. Sparlin
Neva Mae Sparlin
Geo. J. Dykes
Circuit’ Court
Grace H. Cox
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Sterling F. Hayward
Sterling KF. Hayward
A. 8. Herlong, Jr
Sterling
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May L. Hayward
Thomas .H. Cooley Dora Routzahn
Thomas H. Cooley
Suguroe
Ray M. Blanchard
Flayilla &B. Blanchard
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