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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1910
Page
3
Local notes report visits by officials and travelers to the Belle Haven Inn in Sarasota, business trips to Tampa, and engagements of residents from Bradenton and Venice. Mentions include Dr. Jack Halton, Rev Miller services at Fruitville, and several names tied to hotels, stores, and schools.
Kitchen utensils stocked at Sarasota Furniture Company's Store. Thanksgiving visits include Dr O A Burton and family with Mr and Mrs Mark Burton. Miss Gertrude Turver of Coun ty High School spent Thanksgiving in Sarasota. Carl Thompson of Sarasota Fish and Oyster Co. on a business trip to West Virginia and beyond for about ten days. Miakka Venice Osprey Bee Ridge Cortez residents invited to shop at Sarasota Furniture. S W Phillipson of Kissimmee arrives to open a Main Street photo studio, plans to return in a couple weeks.
The piece lists upcoming events and social moves including a Guild bazaar on December 14, visits by Mr C W Townsend and Mr Ogden Cadman, architectural talks with Mrs Potter Palmer, a Ladies Guild meeting at the Belle Haven Inn, property purchases on Orange Ave and near Hudson Bayou, and winter arrivals such as Miss Elsie McCuen and Mrs R A Christy. It notes shopping options at Highsmith and Prime and Sarasota Furniture as well.
Local notices describe Woodmen Circle hail with no dancing, holiday gatherings at Philippi creek, a Tampa medical visit, a Bradenton to Venice hotel stay, teachers’ meeting in Bradenton, and a Sarasota furniture display. Guests from Muncie and Indianapolis plan winter visits, with shopping appeals from Highsmith and Prime.
Thanksgiving visits and holiday hunting mark a Sarasota week as residents return home from Palmetto and other towns. Local events include church services, furniture sales, mapmaking projects, a launch trip to Sarasota Key, and plans for new insurance sub-agencies. Notables: Mrs E J Messer, Miss Sallie Harrison, Judge Honore, Potter Palmer Jr., J H Lord, Louise Lord, Rev W F Allen, and broker R H Johnson among others.
Venices blooms appear after a storm with a late winter risk of few plums. Major J D Courtey and the grey mule route are praised for beef and chicken sales. Higel expands grapefruit trade. local growers face competition from commission men. letters from Boca Grande praise gun purchase and hardware support.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a fifty year old remedy used by millions of mothers for teething. It promises to soothe the child gums allay pain cures wind colic and relieve diarrhea. It sells for twenty five cents a bottle through druggists worldwide.
Bud Sharpe has made good as first baseman for the Boston Nationals. Paskett Bescher Lobert and Egan of Cincinnati share a spot among the six leading base runners in the National League.
In two years 300 new public schools will be built and opened in the Philippines. The piece notes widowers tend to be shy of their age in marriage, with a broader look at social attitudes.
A reader discusses the Washington Capitol dome as an immense iron sphere weighing 8,000,300 pounds. Comparisons liken it to 70,000 people or 1,000 coal cars, with America perched atop weighing 13,985 pounds. The dome bears 14477 pounds per square foot, while crushing pressure would reach 755,286 pounds per square foot. In a separate scene a woman misreads a Miller painting noting gleaners gathering millet with fascination.
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