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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1913
Page
2
A historical telephone directory snippet lists a physician and surgeon with office and residence numbers in Sarasota Florida. Office hours are 9 to 1 and 2 to 4 p.m. and residential contact is given.
Real estate transfers show H Drusilla Mitchell selling Lot 78 in Indian Beach to Frederick H Williams on December 11. Burns Realty transfers Lot 28 in Elk 22 Sarasota to Albert W Dix on December 13. Gulf Bay Land Co transfers multiple lots in Siesta Subdivision to W G West A L McIntyre and D E Harrison. See T C Lines licensed plumber in city. Badger Pharmacy advertises laxatives 50c and 1.00.
An eminent German professor died while on holiday. A mortuary artist engraved the memorial line: He died during his absence, on the tablet in the university town where his life's work had lain. The note reflects a concise, wry obituary line from the New York Evening News.
An advertisement touts Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment as a cure for itch eczema and related skin conditions. A Mendota Illinois resident claims long standing eczema vanished after one box and the ad guarantees satisfaction or money back. Available from Pfeiffer Chemical Co Philadelphia and St Louis for 50 cents.
Church notices list services for First Methodist Presbyterian Baptist Episcopal and Catholic congregations with times and pastors. Also included are fraternal groups such as Saras ota Lodge 147 F and A M and other societies, officers and meeting nights.
At the harvest thanksgiving in Billingsgate Church of St. Magnus the Martyr readers viewed sixty two fish varieties. The display featured great white flat fish red shell fish tiny freshwater crayfish silvery salmon dark skinned eels and yellow dried haddocks.
An advertisement touts White's Cream Vermifuge as a remedy for sickly children. It claims to destroy worms and also act as a stomach and bowels strengthening tonic. The price is 25 cents per bottle and it is sold by Badger Pharmacy.
Round trip fares listed for trips between Tampa and Sarasota with morning and afternoon departure times. Additional routes show entering Jacksonville service with multiple daily times and a single steamer connection.
A Scottish convict completes a three year sentence and departs Peterhead prison with a brown mouse he caught in the quarry. The animal shared meals and learned tricks in a year, eating from the hand and sitting up on command.
A testimonial from Eliza Pool of Depew Oklahoma touts Electric Bitters as a cure for stomach liver and kidney troubles weak nerves lame back and female illnesses. The ad claims thousands benefited and guarantees every bottle with prices 50 cents and 1.00 from H E Bucklen & Co. Philadelphia or St Louis.
Leonardi's Liver-Aid offers relief for liver stomach and bowel disorders. It promises speedy lasting relief for biliousness headache indigestion dyspepsia flatulency chills fever constipation and upset liver. The vegetable remedy never causes griping and is harmless with a money back guarantee at 50 cents from Badger Pharmacy.
Manatee County Commissioners in special session on December 16 1913 approve issuing bonds totaling 386290 dollars to finance paved highway construction and fund outstanding indebtedness. bonds bear five percent interest due June 1 1944 and interest paid annually. election set for March 26 1914 to approve bond issuance and notices to be published weekly for four weeks. multiple precinct inspectors and clerks named for the election with Bradenton as the payment location.
The Bar Association of Manatee County met with all practicing attorneys present and established a uniform fee for abstracts. Fees set at 50 cents per abstract entry and 0.4 percent of the sale price or loan amount over $2000, with a $10 minimum.
The piece traces shorthand origins in antiquity and its evolution through Ennius Tyro and Seneca. It notes the 1412 Ars Scribendi Characteris as the oldest surviving system and Timothy Brights Characterie of 1588 as the first English shorthand work.
An old advert claims deafness results from inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh. It asserts a constitutional cure and offers $100 for any deafness case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, with circulars and product pitches for hall’s pills.
The passage extols daily humor as clean and optimistic. It promotes Ballard's Horehound Syrup with a free Herricks Red Pepper Plaster for the chest, offered by Badger Pharmacy as an advertised remedy package.
A listing notes ledgers journals day books and ink pads available at Badger Pharmacy as part of an adv display likely urging purchases or inquiries for accounting supplies.
The French government promotes experiments with a large copper lightning rod device said to alter atmospheric electricity and prevent hail stone formation.
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