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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1920
Page
7
Furnished homes near the bay with 7 to 8 rooms and 2 baths ready to occupy. Bay front lots 50x200 and 240x100 feet with deep water, paving, and improvements. Prices range from 500 to 5 000 dollars with quick sale offers and farm plots nearby including two to three acre tracts on Orange Avenue.
Local column recounts Osprey and Venice events, church and school scenes, health notes, and visiting guests. Mentions Rev. John Coker, Mrs. Phillips, the Phillips family, and student progress while reporting on mail, express work, and citrus trade chatter. Includes Christmas reflections and resort plans for Eagle Point with Charley Strohmeyer and the Evans family.
Bee Ridge brief items report Andrew Hawkins returning from Okeechobee and Annie Mae Guess visiting her brother Oscar at Osprey. Residents attended church in Osprey and the Hardshell church foot washing. A Gillespie school Christmas tree is planned for Bee Ridge on the 24th.
The Florida community reports strong egg demand, with new benches at the Osprey Baptist church and ongoing road petition efforts for better county access. Winter visitors include Geo E Dixon and family, Mr F M Rhoads from New Jersey, and the Powell party from the North. Capt Will Hamlin and others travel for shopping and gifts while boat work on the Oregon resumes after tow to Sarasota.
The speaker argues for Exchange warehouses and cold storage where consumers can pay growers a fair price. This would cut the large army of middle men whose work raises costs. They urge government aid and legislation to stop turning food into a gambling table.
Englewood highlights include A Stanley Lampp’s drive to Bradenton and Captain Mitchell at Pass View for winter, with residents and guests from Palmetto Sarasota New York Geneva Ohio and Ohio visiting Tamiani Lodge Avon Park Pine Island and Pass View for the season. The group includes Mr and Mrs W H Lampp Miss Wingate Miss Hartley and others planning winter stays.
Rupert Courtey and Lefty Taylor left for a two week Everglades hunting trip. Dr. Fred H. Albee and family arrived in Nokomis, six day auto journey, with 313 miles in one day. The Citrus Fruit Exchange is praised as a solution to eliminate middle men and improve grower profits.
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