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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
2
Sarasota's hotels served Thanksgiving dinners with many families visiting the eateries. High living costs drove residents to enjoy the holiday out, and all hotels reported strong trade with restaurants selling out early before standard meal hours.
The Belle Haven Inn plans to open for the 1916 1917 season and will not publish a menu in this issue due to not yet opening. The seasonal opening is anticipated once the paper is published.
The Mango Avenue hotel served guests with pleasing hospitality. Tables featured flowers in cut glass containers with hibiscus carnations roses and ferns. Each lady guest received a rose or carnation as a gracious custom in a well served luncheon.
A dense directory of church services across denominations with times for Sunday schools worship and midweek gatherings. It also lists numerous Masonic and other lodge meetings, officers and meeting nights, plus state and county government officials.
The Watrous hotel hosted a generous Thanksgiving style menu with items like Oyster Cocktail Consomme, Roast Sirloin of Beef, Roast Turkey with Cranberry Jelly, Mackerel, Mince Pie, and assorted vegetables and desserts. A second row of menu items repeats similar dishes including Duck and Stuffed Fowl, Cranberry Sauce, Creamed Potatoes, Plum Pudding, Strawberry Ice Cream, and Coffee.
Mrs Burton Thoms hosted a congenial Thanksgiving gathering at the new town site of Manasota. The group arrived by auto, dined at the Manasota hotel on a lavish menu including roast turkey, oysters, candied sweet potatoes, and grape juice, then enjoyed boating and fishing in calm weather. Attending were Dr and Mrs Nash, Mr and Mrs Prior, Mrs Mann, the Weldons, Spears, Stevens, Seale, Chapline, Mr and Mrs Harry E Baker, Mayor Dowell, Col S H Owens, C W Bogart, Charles A French, E S Williams, and Charles G Strohmeyer.
The Weida hotel and other establishments served a Thanksgiving dinner with one of the largest guest counts in years. The menu features clam chowder baked mackerel radishes egg sauce roast Florida turkey cranberry sauce oyster dressing whipped white potatoes candied yams wax beans white bread corn bread salad desserts include pumpkin meringue pie New York cream cheese plum pudding brandy sauce frozen fruit sherbet tea coffee and assorted nuts. Also noted are roast turkey roast duck chicken soup roast pork with apple sauce and other side dishes.
Messrs H M Taylor Russell Taylor and their families spent Thanksgiving Day outdoors in the woods along the Myakka River. The party loaded cars with food and split duties with the women preparing a meal at the riverbank while the men hunted along the river’s edge.
They were very successful and slew ducks quail and rabbits but did not get any of the wild turkeys said to abound there. They returned in the evening pleased with their day and believe that is the only way to enjoy such a day. The Romanian army on war footing numbers about 690 000 with an unorganized reserve nearly equal in size.
State Shell Fish Commissioner T. R. Hodges reaches Key West aboard the patrol boat Roamer after a west coast trip with a motion picture cameraman making a reel on the fish industry. He departs Monday for Miami aboard the Sea Foam, to join the cameraman there for the east coast leg.
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