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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1941
Page
4
Mount Dora Topic reports on Thursday by the Mount Dora publishing Car Company. The fragment notes a local topic from Mount Dora Florida with unclear context and incomplete details.
A clipped byline reads Ida Press Association with NA Donal as editor and editorial associate, highlighting a small staff note attached to a local newspaper page.
The familiar pledge to the flag of the United States of America is cited as a standard oath expressing loyalty to the Republic and the ideals of liberty and justice for all.
The text proclaims belief in a government of the people, by the people, for the people and a union of states. It emphasizes consent of the governed, democracy within a republic, and national ideals of freedom equality justice and humanity. It commits loyalty to country, constitution, laws, flag, and defense against enemies.
Dr. H. G. Hamilton of the University of Florida at the Florida Citrus Growers Institute argues that a WWI level price rise would not help Florida citrus growers. He says oranges might rise $1.60 a box f.o.b., but production could jump by 10 million boxes and higher costs would erase the gain. Financial outlook appears better with stable prices over the next five years.
Florida's permanent state school fund has risen by about $226,000 since April 1, 1937, per a report by State Treasurer J Edwin Larsen at the request of Superintendent Colin English. Investments in Florida bonds at a discount boosted the fund, with bonds August 1 totaling $5,019,373, up $226,883 from 1937.
The piece argues that nations and people must make painful choices in war, acknowledging the harsh reality of selecting the lesser abomination. It critiques hope for noninterference and notes Hitler’s attack tests American resolve and the logic of confronting aggression.
The piece weighs stark contrasts among Hitler, Stalin, Nazism, and Communism calling them totalitarian horrors. It argues the three key differences on religion, property, and racial doctrine, urging Americans to choose Britain or Germany and Russia or Japan amid global conflict.
Dr R L Sullivan of Pensacola expresses support for a Mount Dora to Mt Plymouth road. He plans to travel September 7 8 and offers to contribute local expertise from his grove project to prepare the land and assist in the road's development.
The Union Catalog of Floridiana, established 1937 at Rollins College, reports 37 new Florida references from Savannah’s Georgian and Republican for 1824 and 1825. Listing universities and consultants, the note highlights items from Duke, NYU, Northwestern, South Carolina, Virginia and others, plus rare and manuscript materials.
A Florida notes column invites readers to submit references on a Florida classical love story emigration from Cuba Haiti and other Caribbean nations biographical sketches of Colonels Pittman and George Y. Hosmer who lived near Tallahassee in the 1830s and rare Floridiana items such as Mary Estelle Ley’s Fifty two Years in Florida. It defines Floridiana and asks for reader definitions of Florida writers and requests suggestions to Editor Union Catalog Rollins College Winter Park Florida.
Farmers and gardeners report mole cricket infestations and describe a broadcast poison bait using 50 lb wheat bran 50 lb cottonseed meal 744 lb calcium arsenate mixed with water for crusty spread. Add molasses for cutworms and apply 50 lb per acre in moist ground late afternoon or early evening.
Growers in Florida may file claims for outstanding citrus accounts by Sept 28 despite bond and license expiration for dealers on June 30. J F Doc Mays at the State Citrus Inspection Bureau in Winter Haven notes about $30,000 will be paid this year to growers from delinquent dealers, more than double the 1939 40 season.
Leesburg man Bill Floyd paused for lunch beside a Bun nell road crew when a ground rattler coiled under him. He rose startled and, after grabbing a shovel, swung three times before the snake was killed. The incident was reported by Ormund Powers in the Orlando Sentinel.
Eighty two new men joined the State Highway Patrol under the union program authorized by the last legislature. The message urges citizens to buy Defense Bonds and Stamps.
St Thomas Episcopal Church in Eustis announces services next Sunday at 11 a m with Holy Communion on the first Sunday and prayer and sermon on other Sundays of the month. Rector D T Johnson extends a cordial welcome to all.
Lake Franklin Street on Sanfi invites all to Bible Study at 10 00 a m and preaching at 11 00 a m led by Bro. David Harold from Daytona Beach. 3rd Sunday L B Chastain 4th Sunday Lester Starling from Ocoee 5th Sunday L B Chastain. 7 30 p m Evening Services and 6 30 p m Prayer. You are cordially invited to attend each service.
A listing of recurring meetings for Baptist Church The Lambert Mary Simpson and Overhiser Circles W M A Community Church Ladies Aid Missionary group Methodist Chapel Women’s Society of Christian Service American Legion Auxiliary King Daughters PTA and other local clubs. Also notes demand for tourism in Florida and Miami winter visitors with a closing call to buy defense bonds and stamps.
Catholic church listing for Cor Grove Street and Badger Avenue Eustis. Rectory at 234 Badger Avenue provides mass times: Sunday 8 a.m. first Sunday of the month and 10:30 a.m. otherwise, weekday mass 7:30 a.m. Confessions on Saturdays. Rev. William O'Farrell is pastor.
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