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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1913
Page
7
Sarasota City notes include A B Edwards real estate and insurance ad, visits by W H Beardsley to Bradenton, a split of residents from Chicago to winter here, and multiple new cottages, automobiles for hire, and shore acres promotions. Names include Pearl Hill, J Roth, P Zimmerman, Jensen, Dalton Jones, R H Woodward, Chipman, C H Cromer, Ferrer, Ferrell Hanna, Maxwell, and Sistrunk.
H Lautenschlaeger of Buffalo and M Y arrived in town Saturday night and stopped at the Seaboard. He has spent several years here with the last year in Miami part of the winter.
See McFarland's cisterns they see the others. We sell 750 gallon at 20 dollars, 1000 at 25, 1500 at 35. adv R E Ludewig has shown confidence in the future of Sarasota by purchasing two choice lots in Sunset Park. Mr Ludwig and his family have heavy interests in St Petersburg and may move residence to Sarasota.
Mr and Mrs Thompson of Willimette arrive Tuesday to occupy a small cottage on Bungalow Hill while their house is built. Guild meets Mrs Higel. Parish building fund grows by 57 dollars from November tea room sales. Fruit cake orders for Christmas taken. SHORE ACRES ad claims map placement.
Citizens are asked to report decorations to Mrs. E A Kartack and contribute to expenses.
Mrs Walter R. Miller and Miss Ruth Truesdell have arrived in Sarasota to spend the winter. They occupy the cottage corner of Main and Pine streets, where they stayed last winter.
Mrs J B Fletcher arrived from Chicago on Monday. Mr and Mrs R C Caples will arrive December 23 to spend Christmas with Mrs Mary Caples Brown and the Caples parents, Mr and Mrs J B Fletcher, at the Caples bungalow.
Announcements arrived for friends of Mrs Hurdle noting her marriage to Mr Benjamin Franklin Measey in Jersey City New Jersey on November 26. The couple will depart immediately for St Petersburg Florida to begin their life together.
Phore 128 Thompson Bros. report of a new launch Nellie May built at D. W. Walker's boat house. The craft measures 25 feet 9 inches in length and 6 feet 6 inches in beam. Mrs. Foster and Mr. Foster express optimism for better fishing yields and record catches.
A local store announces a fresh line of fashionable shoes now on display. Visit to see the latest styles and other attractive goods offered by J A Clark.
The itemized report lists shelving and fixture work for a new Bank building store to be occupied by W M Taylor, wall repair between Caples and Highsmith buildings, a glass dining room for jeweler Geo Thacker, and a house to be finished by December 24. It also highlights J B Tolmans, veteran Methodist minister, traveling in Europe at eighty six, visiting Sarasota, and inviting A M Woodruff and his family from Watervliet to join a winter stay in Tampa. Woodruff runs loans and insurance and has served as a judge for sixteen years.
Archibald Hardware Co. in Saraso ta invites shoppers to view a vast range of Christmas goods. The store will stay open in the evenings through the holiday season to aid selections.
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