Sarasota Bay channel plan advances with $92,000 appropriation
Government documents from Senator Fletcher detail Sarasota Bay improvement studies. A proposed Long Key route would fund an 8 foot deep, 100 foot wide channel from Tampa Bay to Sarasota with 3 foot depth to Venice and related maintenance costs. The Board of Engineers supports the Long Key route and a $92,000 initial cost plus $3,000 yearly maintenance.
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the Times
Fletcher
Sarasota Bay
Tampa Bay
Venice
National Board of Engineers
Longboat
Anna Maria Keys
Lindley M. Garrison
House of Representatives
Dan C. Kingman
Secretary of War
Sarasota
Longboat Cut
Longbat Cut
Cortez
Long Key
Board of Engineers For
Tampa
Sarasota Pass
Little Sarasota Bay
Board of Engineers
Plow Demonstration Destroys Palmetto and Oak on Palmer Tract
The Chattanooga grubbing plow, weighing 1400 pounds, tackles heavy palmetto and oak on a seventeen acre Palmer tract south of the bayou. Col Butler trains the mule driver as the device bites through roots and shatters dense scrub, opening land for forage crops and profitable pasture.
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Chattanooga
Orange Avenue
Palmer
Col. Butler
Palmer Farm
City Band Rehearsals Open in Sarasota Golf Club House
Four Yacht Club members plan to buy Saxophones for a quartet as Sarasota starts a city band at the golf club house. Conductor Pickett volunteers time and seeks players from all ages, with Owen Burns assuring expenses will be covered.
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Sarasota City
Golf Club
Pickett
Sarasota
Yacht Club
Owen Burns
Presbytery of St Johns Spring Meeting Dates Set
The Presbytery of St Johns meets at Sara sota's Presbyterian church from April 21 to 28. About 50 ministers and elders attend, with sessions open to the public. The opening sermon is by Dr P W Sinks of Bartow and the presbyterial communion service by Rev E D Brownelee and Rev J Tunis and Dr J W Stagg address missions. The bounds span DeLand to Key West with 80 ministers and 40 churches.
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Presbytery of
St. Johns
Presbyterian Church of
Sarasota
P. W. Sinks
Bartow
E. D. Brownlee
Sanford
J. C. Tunis
Tampa
Jannus Airboat Demonstration Sparks Sarasota Interest
Tony Jannus piloted a Benoist airboat from Sunset Park with Owen Burns and others aboard as Sarasota residents witnessed the first aerial passenger flights over the bay. Mrs. I. R. Burns became the first lady to fly over Sarasota Bay, with multiple demonstrations and a planned air link between St. Petersburg and Tampa highlighted as a potential regional asset.
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St. Petersburg
Tampa
Tony Jannus
Sarasota
Seaboard
Yacht Club
Walker
Allyn
Owen Burns
Sunset Park
Jack Halton
Jack Junior
I. R. Burns
Sarasota Bay
Burns
Jannus
Club
Esther Edmondson
T. Gilmore Edmondson
Bradentown
Jack
Transfer closes on thirty bayfront acres near Sarasota
Real estate activity includes the sale of thirty acres of bay front land from J. KE. Moore to Miss Gertrude Mc Clelland via West Coast Realty Company. The property runs bay to Osprey avenue with a yacht basin dredge and sea wall to form a high land subdivision near Sarasota's southern border.
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Bay Front
J. KE. Moore
P. D. Lacy
West Coast Realty Company
Gertrude McClelland
Bay
Osprey Avenue
Mr. Cunliff
Sarasota
Dr Schultz and Turner Head to Tampa for Operation
Dr F Wm Schultz and Claude Turner departed Monday morning for Tampa where Turner will undergo an operation at Gordon Keller hospital.
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F. Wm. Schultz
Claude Turner
Tampa
Claude
Gordon Keller Hospital
Baltimore man joins Sarasota real estate and booster effort
L Rawls and his wife with two children move from Baltimore to Sarasota to work with A B Edwards in real estate and insurance and participate in Sarasota Improvement Co. Rawls, once a Daily Star writer and Maryland and Western R R publicist, brings publicity skills and connects with R C Caples and J B Fletcher during a city visit earlier. They reside in the Madison bungalow on Seventh street.
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Sarasota
Rawls
Madison
Seventh Street
the Times
Burns couple to spend summer in San Francisco from Sarasota
Mr and Mrs I R Burns depart Saturday for New York then visit Burns Terrace Inwood on the Hudson before heading to San Francisco for the summer. They will be greatly missed by many friends for their wide ranging efforts to promote and enliven Sarasota.
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I. R. Burns
New York
Burns Terrace
Inwood-on-the-Hudson
San Francisco
Sarasota
Sarasota Bay hosts record kingfish catch by Hall party
Mr. Horatio L. Hall of Chicago, president of Mitchell Automobile Co., and party fished Sarasota Bay for kings. They landed 47 kings weighing 340 pounds plus five jacks and a bonita, with Mrs. Hall hauling the largest kingfish of about 385 pounds, now being mounted for display.
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Sarasota Bay
Horatio L. Hall
Chicago
Mitchell Automobile Co
Hall
Sarasota
California
Florida
Times
Big Pass
West Coast Cruising Yachts Visit Bay This Week
The bay welcomed six cruising yachts this week bringing visitors from western coastal points. The presence of the yachts enlivened local activity as they moored and guests explored the shoreline.
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E. W. Pickett, Conductor
Halton
George Roberts
Gulf
Baltimore
H. L. Hall
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