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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1934
Page
4
A collection of wry sayings on work, taxes, advertising, and ethics. It jests about face lifts, forest preservation, auto dangers, government money, and debt worries, punctuated by satirical notes from local columns and signs. The tone is playful social commentary.
Chicago notes report two robbers stole a teacher’s back pay just after she was paid for the first time in seven months while Upton Sinclair aims to abolish poverty in California and Florida’s citrus shipments face action from the agriculture commissioner. A Mount Dora typo hints at a “Congressional” Ladies Aid.
The Literary Digest reports a nationwide go to college recruiting drive using the Governments relief measure FERA. By September the program aims to admit about 100000 boys and girls who would not otherwise attend American colleges and universities.
The Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce and the Topic promote a publicity drive to attract Northern winter visitors and residents. Russell Kay’s Too Late to Classify column spreads the plan, with twenty one Florida exchanges carrying the feature, inspiring other communities to imitate the effort for greater outreach and economic relief through FERA funding and PWA projects.
The speaker extols Florida as a land of vast agricultural, mining, timbering, manufacturing, and commercial potential. He highlights its railway and port facilities, strategic location, varied soils, and capacity to grow cotton, tobacco, grains, fruits, vegetables, and forage crops, urging greater effort to leverage opportunities across farm production, diversification, fruit growing, dairying, and industry.
Sam Hill of the Cincinnati Enquirer notes his wife objects to pressing his trousers but offers to spot them out instead. He jokes about removing one, five, or ten spots.
The article praises college education as essential for success and discusses a broad program to promote the Orange Blossom Trail to increase tourism in Central Florida. It notes a $30,000 advertising campaign, calls for community support, and references statewide editorial commentary and local columns. It also mentions football injuries and a note of thanks to a local editor.
The First Florida Infantry and Third U S Volunteer Infantry veterans from Florida will reunite at Lakeside Park on Sunday under Col Charles P Lovell. The event blends a reunion with a basket picnic and a council meeting, with attendees urged to bring picnic baskets and families. The Central Florida Council includes camps in Ocala Sanford Orlando Eustis St Cloud DeLand Daytona Beach New Smyrna and Leesburg.
Eustis forms a new chamber of commerce while Leesburg boosters club activity increases. Apopka Winter Garden and Kissimmee St. Cloud Cocoa chambers plan for brighter winter season. Sanford leader Karl Lehmann elevates the port profile, drawing substantial publicity. Kiwanians return from Mount Dora praising local spirit as Central Florida builds momentum.
Mrs Florence Gilbert Hanscom arrived home Saturday night from Dansville New York where she visited her sister Mrs E B Cridler. The pair toured Shenandoah Caverns Natural Bridge Virginia Silver Springs and logged five to six thousand miles on their summer trips.
Friends mourn Mrs Lina L Engle Barnett of Red Gables Jacksonville Beach who died early Wednesday Sept 12 at her home. Funeral services were held the next afternoon. She was active in Red Cross wartime service the Woman's Life Saving Corps the Florida Historical Society and the Florida branch of the League of Nations Societies. She served as an officer of the National Society of Colonial Dames in Florida and belonged to the Woman's Club.
The Sunday program features 10:00 a. m. morning service and an 11:00 a. m. sermon on Religion and a Changing Civilization by Reverend Perry B. James. Evening worship at 7:30 p. m. will present a resume of Dr. S. Parks Cadman's The Prophets of Israel with illustrations by Frank O. Salisbury.
The Congregational church invites the public to a morning service at 11 oclock and a Young People's meeting at 10 oclock in the morning. Pastor David B. Spencer will deliver the second sermon in a series on the Gospel's relevance to present day problems titled If a Communist State What Then.
Corner tenth and Tremain Lom Renfroe Lambert, pastor. Sunday school 9 45 a m. Morning worship 11 00 a m. Baptist Young Peoples Union 7 00 p m. Evening Worship 8 00 p m. Mid week service Wednesday 8 00 p m. You are cordially invited to worship with us at any or all of these services.
St Thomas Episcopal in Eustis Florida invites parishioners and visitors to 11 a.m. services next Sunday featuring Holy Communion and a sermon by Rector D. T. Johnson. A cordial welcome is extended.
Mr and Mrs Edgar E Stokes announce the birth of a daughter Frances Ashton born September 7 at Lake County Hospital. She weighed seven pounds at birth. Both mother and baby are home and well. Mr Stokes has returned from Key West for the weekend.
A guide emphasizes two rules for good drivers: know how to drive and follow the laws of the road. It explains momentum and stopping distance, noting a car at 40 mph takes four times as long to stop as one at 20 mph, and urges drivers to give others the benefit of the doubt.
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