Weathering the Lake Dora Sky The Buzzards and News
In a Lake Dora scene Pat Marshall reports a looping cloud and rising water spout while Pat Willmott confirms no damage. Mrs. F P Hatfield of the Kiwanis shares humor and defense duty notes about the Ground Observer Corps and plane spotting misfires. Cattle ranchers share a light moment about back rubbing as a note of rural life.
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Pat Marshall
Lake Dora
Patty Willmott
F. P. Hatfield
Kiwanis Club
Ground Observer Corps
Back rubber cattle setup and theatre anecdote mix
A county agent shares a back rubbing device for cattle using a burlap wrapped wire chain and insecticide for 75 to 100 cows. The piece also recounts a Saturday Evening Post item about Ruth Chatterton and Carl Graves at Pine Orchard and a Sheldon House dining room dress-stand drama.
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R. E
Bob” Norris
Mr. Norris
James E Brogdon
Carl
Miss Chatterton
Saturday Evening Post
Doran
Graves
Sheldon House
Pine Orchard
Conn
Carl S. Graves
Villa Dora
Mount Dora
Ruth Chatterton
New England
Charlotte Buchwald Harmon
Carl Graves
Mr. Graves
Helen Graves
Start New Station WGTO Opens With Open House
The WGTO radio station in Haines City will officially open Friday with an open house at 2 p m at the Pine Crest hotel. President Robert T Convey also heads KWK St Louis and Ray E Dady serves as manager and is VP of the St Louis corporation.
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WGTO
Haines City
Florida
Robert T. Convey
KWK
St. Louis
Ray E. Dady
St. Louis Corporation
Pine Crest Hotel
Winter Visitor Dies Of Heart Attack
Friends of Mrs Ella Jaques learn of her death in Bear Lake New Hampshire her Summer home on September 4. The Winter resident at the home of Mrs Edith Swartz 229 East Sixth Avenue had been staying there for two seasons and suffered a heart attack as she prepared to leave Boston with Mrs Eleanor Jackson for a trip to Mount Dora.
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Ella Jaques
Bear Lake
N. H
Jacques
Edith Swartz
Boston
Eleanor Jackson
Mount Dora
Two Good Books Cited on List at Mount Dora Library
Mount Dora Public Library shelves feature two top sellers The Revolutionary War tale Flight from Natches by Dr Frank Slaughter and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson Both are highlighted as leading books on current best seller lists Other selections include The Flower Girls Sara Dane Murder Makes an En trance Case of the Sunbather's Diary and The Roaring Boys among others
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Natches
Florida
Frank Slaughter
Sloan Wilson
Mount Dora
Clemence Dane
Sara Dane
Catherine Gaskin
Clarence Kelland
Erle S. Gardner
Robert Payne
W. F. Bragg
James Cav
Mount Dora Real Estate Sales Rise in August 1955
Real estate sales in Mount Dora during August totaled 65000 in Federal tax stamps, second in the year to date and lifting the 1955 year total to 387700. Tax Assessor John Cain lists transfers from Carl Foster to John T Clayton and others, including L Dake to Carney Kittinger and subsequent transfers in the Mount Dora market.
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Mount Dora
John Cain
Carl Foster & Wf
John T. Clayton & Wf
L. Dake & Wf
Carney Kittinger & Eas
R. R. Clark & Wf
G. J. Harvey
Whee Inc
R. G. Wells & Wf
E. B. Shottes
Pearl Downs
Norris Hutchinson & Wf
Pinecrest Inc
Oscar E. Shubert & W
J. B. Booth, Jr
Jos. A. Williams
Earl W. Smith
Ralph S. Morgan
O. W. Smith
Mildred E. Marsh
Racehorse Debut Wins Dramatic Churchill Dash
At Churchill Downs an 8-year-old first-timer owned by a West 1 figure surprised bettors by winning by 19 lengths after opening at 136.59. Stewards grilled the owner who admitted the horse could not be caught until it was seven years old, a remark reflecting the odd gamble and curious backstory.
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West
Churchill Down
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