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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1913
Page
6
The notice lists the successor publication of the Manatee County Advocate based in Sarasota Florida It notes weekly issues published every Thursday with editor and proprietor Mrs C V S Wilson Subscription rates quoted at one year or six months in advance The item appears as a postal record indicating second class matter status in Sarasota Florida.
State papers advocate restoring spelling matches as the best method to teach spelling amid declines in higher studies. Plant City issued first market strawberries at seventy five cents a quart and Sarasota is said to have land nearby suitable for strawberry raising, suggesting profitable crops could improve conditions.
From the trucking centers of the state vegetables are beginning to go forward from southern counties with lettuce beans and early tomatoes. Mana tee county leads in shipping lettuce and celery and some tomatoes. DeSoto is shipping beans and cucumbers for carload movement in a few days while the East coast expects its largest vegetable acreage in history to move this month.
Florida would appoint city registers to report births and deaths using federal forms. Each report would earn the register twenty five cents from the State board, with accuracy required within ten percent of actual figures. Lakeland News notes Congress adjourned and the 63rd session opened with a currency bill likely to pass before holidays as Meadoo requests a 22 million dollar budget rise for 1915.
The Siesta Yacht Basin project plans palm trees around the basin. Mr Faubel is planting value vege tables for the hotel and crews repaint to ready for opening around January 10. Enquiries from former guests seek season rates as Mr Campbell opens a real estate office in the Arcade to serve hotel guests with a future boat service.
The club met with strong attendance and six new members elected. Lectures on India by Miss Margaret Davis are planned for December 15 at the Palms Theatre, with current events and a display of Elston Art Publishing pictures forthcoming. A special December 8 meeting at the board of trade room is announced.
Bob Franklin has bought out Dr O B Wilson's interest in Crescent Pharmacy elevating Franklin to sole owner of the drugstore.
A brief civic notice from Manatee County Sub-Exchange manager H. C. Gomerecut urging cooperative effort to sustain local fruit programs and community orchard projects.
The Library Committee reports a large donation of late 19th century titles from Miss Johnston of Chicago. The list includes West Ways, Laddie, The Indifference of Juliet, With Juliet In England, The Husband's Story, The Story of Waitstill Baxter, V. V's Eyes, The Potter and the Clay, Jones Trip Abroad, The Girl of the Limberlost, Emerald and Ermine, The Heart of Hyacinth, and a Japanese story.
The Sarasota Citrus Association packing house opened Friday morning employing twelve workers. Over a thousand boxes were shipped from groves in the Fruit ville neighborhood. The facility will stay open until mid month then close until after the holidays.
Board approves continued consideration of a bond issue for a special district or general county issue. Mr Grinton moves to adjourn until tomorrow evening December 38 1918. J W Keener secretary.
The article discusses a school faculty gathering led by Miss Story presiding over the department. It praises her hosting as fitting and credited to her, noting the impact on the department within the schools.
The Braden town Board of Trade supports a ten day Chautauqua program series provided by the Christian Culture Institution of Gainesville Florida. The festival runs from February 22 to March 4 with Seaboard Air Line offering excursion rates during that period.
A contract was let yesterday by Owen Burns to Bert Luzier for a six inch artesian well to supply water for Sunset Park, the new subdivision on the northwestern bay shore.
Voters expressed strong approval for the County bond issue in Bradentown and endorsed another municipal measure of 95 000 dollars by a four to one margin on Tuesday indicating broad public backing for local finance projects.
Agnes Eahart, 19, engaged to Feodor Hennickel, feigned robbery to avoid marriage. In league with a friend she claimed a man bound and robbed her, but detectives found the tale false. She signed a written statement and was released.
A humorous exchange uses wordplay on four flusher meaning someone who flushes four times. The foreigner’s intent to speak vernacular yields a punny insult centered on toilet behavior.
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