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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1937
Page
6
Publication details show Mount Dora Florida weekly publication by Mount Dora Publishing Company with display advertising at 35 cents per inch and classified advertising at one cent per word with a 25 word minimum.
A list of birth dates and names tied to Lake and surrounding counties with notes on years of service include George F West breck Clermont state senator born near Mascotte 1871 W M Igon Ringold Georgia county official and 14 years as state senator died 1933 John F Lacey born Milton Delaware county surveyor Lake County born 1865 died 1937 A G Smith prominent Eustis merchant born Rome New York Oct 1 1879 W F Austin Uma tilla born Washington county Tennessee T G Futch Leesburg born Bradford County Florida Oct 2 1863 George S Mickle Lake County engineer born Lynchburg Alabama.
A fragment notes that some languages lack certain swear words and that men struggle to speak when absent such terms. It recalls a man who justifies drinking whiskey by claiming he was taught to love his enemies.
A compact wry remark noting that some men display practical common sense like a horse, while others consistently kick about issues like a mule, illustrating two temperament types in everyday behavior.
The text asserts persistent newspaper advertising as the top cure for a failing business and claims thousands of testimonials support its effectiveness.
The Melbourne Times Yankee Edition appeals to Florida visitors with thirty six pages of live reading matter, appealing local views, and advertising highlighting the city’s up to date progressive business establishments.
A reflective reminiscence celebrates memories of corn bread sorghum syrup and friend meat breakfasts, home crafted clothing, moon planting beliefs, traditional child care, and rural chores like fetching water, lamp care, and stove wood. It invites readers to savor that satisfaction.
The column urges renewed pioneering in the south as an industrial frontier with vast resources and new science chemurgy shaping agriculture and development. It cites national sentiment against protecting Americans in China, noting polls showing little support, and quotes General Smedley D. Butler urging U S citizens to leave China.
Florida's attractions travel west to east with a Philadelphia display at the new 60 million Pennsylvania Station followed by a National Sportsman's Show exhibit in New York City and another Philadelphia showing. The events aim to draw thousands to Florida's sunshiny winter playground, though not as comprehensive as the Great Lakes Exposition.
Governor Rivers says a special session of the Georgia legislature will convene on Thanksgiving Day to focus mainly on taxation. The move overshadows the holiday joy, and Georgians are told to have sympathy for the situation as the state faces tax related deliberations.
A reflective note on mental effort highlighting how people delay thinking until urgent. It suggests cognitive ease leads to delayed reasoning and urges deliberate thought when confronted with dilemmas, emphasizing practicality over constant rumination.
The Daytona Beach Observer questions prospects for completing the Florida Cross State Canal under Roosevelt, debating whether it serves as an essential wartime waterway and a cost saving for shippers, tracing its origins to Andrew Jackson and contrasting claims by Lex Green and Claude Pepper. A Lakeland Highlands grower, Fred Pope, develops a new orange variety promising year round fruit sales and potential millions in industry gains.
The writer condemns modern warfare as more brutal than medieval atrocity highlighting civilian Japanese air raid victims and the agony of non combatants. A Lake CountyCitizen column proposes redirecting slot machine money to an orphanage or humanitarian project instead of promoting gambling.
The Florida Deer Protective Association met at Bradenton to plan a statewide coalition with conservation groups. They will expand to other game protection once the deer campaign ends. The plan follows a pending court challenge to a state order to kill deer, halted by a circuit court and under appeal to the Supreme Court.
Lillian D. Vickers Smith of Fruitland Park and Leesburg becomes the only woman to hold a sports editor post in a Florida newspaper. She was appointed at the Leesburg Commercial, Lake County’s oldest paper edited by Gilbert D Leach. Mrs. Smith has long served the paper and led local American Legion Auxiliary work.
Mr Truman N Allen aged 33 died at his Tangerine home on Friday afternoon from a heart attack. He was a Florida citrus industry figure from Georgia and Emory University graduate. survived by wife Helen Mae Little, a seven year old daughter Patrica, his mother, and three sisters. Remains were sent to Atlanta and Decatur for services and burial.
Clifford R. Hiatt leaves his Lake County Extension post after eleven years, with colleagues praising his work. The office will operate in Tavares and Groveland on specified days as staff plan poultry records and organize 4 H clubs. Col C E Lester notes compliant work advancing in Uma til la Eustis Mount Dora and will move to Leesburg Fruitland Park Lady Lake around October 15.
Ormond Beach property of the late John D. Rockefeller was appraised last week under order of County Judge John E. Peacock. The total valuation set by appraisers totaled $14,221.
The article outlines WPA and PWA projects in Florida including county offices in Orlando, city park improvements in New Smyrna, and land clearing near St. Augustine. It notes a $100,000 allotment for a Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Orlando and praises supporters. It also covers farm legislation goals, civil service exam notices, and Coast Guard commissioning opportunities with admission standards.
Heber D. Ketcham D D minister leads the morning worship theme God's Hand in Human Affairs with Mrs C M Gudgeon as organist. Church school at 9 45 a m and Bible study at 7 30 p m Wednesday.
At Corner Tenth and Tremain Rev Neslie V Underwood leads Sunday School at 9 45 with classes for all ages Morning Worship at 11 00 Evening service at 8 00 B Y P U gathers at 6 30 Mid week service on Wednesday 7 30 P M Strangers welcome and all others without a regular church home.
The congregation led by Pastor Andrew Melrose Brodie D D and organist Florence Gilbert Hanscom held Bible School at 10 A M and Morning Worship with a sermon at 11 A M on the topic Why Go to Church.
The Church of Christ on Rossiter Street Sanford Road holds services each Lord's Day with Bible School at 10 A M and worship from 11 to 12 A M. Evening preaching at 7 30 P M. A Women's Bible Class meets Wednesday at 3 PM and a Prayer and Praise Service is Thursday night at 7 30.
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