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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1935
Page
8
The booklet argues money paid under the Townsend Plan will circulate for essential needs and leisure, ease the tax burden, and fund pensions. It contends job creation, consumer power, and a nationwide transactions tax will reduce poverty, curb crime, and preserve freedom while expanding prosperity.
Florida Motor Lines expands service with eight daily round trips between Jacksonville Miami and East Coast cities and a similar count between St. Petersburg Tampa and Jacksonville. The firm keeps summer schedules intact to meet peak tourist and business traffic, says General Traffic Manager T B O St een. A limited express between Jacksonville and Miami completes the route in under nine hours with lunch, while an experimental St Petersburg to Jacksonville run proves popular.
Governor Dave Sholtz leads the All Florida Ad Committee in Tampa on September 9 to outline plans for a statewide campaign. A $25 000 fund will back advertisements to boost Florida in northern publications during the upcoming season.
The National Youth Administration announces Horace C. Beatty of the University of Florida as Florida state director for the NYA. The notice outlines financial aid plans for needy college students during the 1935 36 year and details the program’s scope in the state.
Mr and Mrs George A Deen of 1010 Fifth Avenue celebrate the birth of a fine boy on Soon 1st He has been christened Jr and the family shares joyful news from their home in the city
Hattie M. Allen holder of Tax Certificate No 2650 dated August 7 1933 has filed for tax deeds on property in Lake County Florida described as S% and NW% (less railroad right of way) Block 32 Reeves Subdivision Sorrento. Original assessment in J A Cowart name. If not redeemed a tax deed will issue September 17 1935.
Notice: T M Arrington holder of Tax Certificate No 1120 dated the 7th applies for tax deed for Lake County Florida properties in Belmont Heights Unit 2 blocks 1 2 3 4 and their lots 1 to 16 incl. under the certificate issued in the name of James R Thorpe. Deed dated August 5 1935. Clerk GEO. DYKES and Deputy Clerk R C Peeples sign.
A rambled column describing travel through Utah and Kansas with sharp roads, dust, and crooked signals, joking about Salt Lake City’s traffic whistles and preferring Florida. The narrator jokes about law and crime, ending with a quip about assisting an escape as a crime unless you’re a lawyer.
R H Berg president announces dates for the annual fall convention of the Florida State Press Association to be held November 8 and 9 in Sebring. The association will be guest of local civic organizations and Sebring newspaper men.
Lake County ranks second in fertilizer use for July with 1417 tons, while Polk County shows 664 tons, per the Department of Agriculture report. The finding places Lake County as the area’s second largest consumer for the month.
The text notes orange groves in east Florida before a 1835 freeze, then commercial growth after 1842. Huglas Dummit, an early entrant under the Armed Occupation Act in 1842, cultivated a orange grove from a Mappygo-Lucky Hammock grafted to sour oranges and shipped fruit to New York via New Smyrna. It also mentions the Blue Gray GNATCATCHER common in central Florida year round and its winter range.
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