Florida's Wealth From Land Sea and Industry
The article surveys Florida's wealth sources including agriculture like oranges grapefruit strawberries celery lettuce tomatoes and tobacco. notes pineapples harvests and truck farming. highlights sea exports timber mining phosphate fuller earth sea fish sponge fisheries and the impact of Tampa and Pensacola as hubs. It emphasizes varied income streams across crops minerals timber and marine resources.
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Florida
Union
Tarpon Fishing Yields Mixed Results Off New Pass
Tarpon season peaks with mixed success as anglers report several catches off New Pass. Wade Rigby and Paul Noble each land tarpon, while Joseph Downey nets two including an eighty pound fish. A 400 to 4,000 pound shark battle tests Mr Foster and guides, and Paul Noble’s Marguerite yields an eighty seven and two other tarpon including a 110 pound catch.
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Wade Rigby
Decatur Pelot
Paul Noble
Mitchel
E. H. Foster
Sadlersvile, Md
Joe Bishop
Joseph Downey
Chicago
New Pass
F. W. Klein
Oregon
Sturgis
Foster
Bishop
Burns
Maola
Addition to Belle Haven Inn Expansion Plans
An addition of fifty rooms is to be built at the Belle Haven Inn in Sarasota at a cost of at least $25,000. Architect A. H. Johnson of this city prepared the plans. Sarasota shares a building boom with Tampa as the resort’s population grows rapidly.
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Sarasota
A. H. Johnson
Tampa
Florida Ex position luring wealth with sun and breeze
The piece extols tourist travel as a major money flow into the state, noting wealthy visitors escape northern chills to Florida. It praises balmy air, sunshine, sea and scenery as priceless gifts obtained by visiting Florida Ex, with expectations of spending on comforts and luxuries.
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Koreas
Florida
Visit to Sarasota A Floridian Sojourn by St Petersburg Tourists
Visitors from St Petersburg recount a Florida trip in May 1911 to Sarasota. They travel by steamer City of Sarasota, view Fort Dade and fishing scenes, meet friends the Chapells, tour a model town planned by Mrs. Potter Palmer, pass orange groves, palmettos, and colorfully diverse neighborhoods, noting happiness amid poverty and a gulf coast setting.
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St. Petersburg
Fla
Sarasota
Florida
Tampa
Dade
Keys
Sarasota Bay
Gulf of Mexico
Lowell
Mass
New England
Potter Palmer
Chicago
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Fila
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City of
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Saverese
Higel’s
Petersburg
Harry L. Higel
Fis
Armour
Harry L. Higes
Armour Fertilizer Works
Jacksonville, Fla
THE
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Gadsden County
Sea Island
Penscola
Jacksonville
Key West
Plant City
Cuba
Georgia
Belle Haven Inn
G. W. Franklin
W. E. Franklin
Sarasota Furniture
Bank of Sarasota
Navasota
Manates Banking Co
Bradentown
Pla
Blackburn Building
Main Street
Rooms
Gate City
Weber
Studebaker
E. M. F. Flanders
Farn Tampa Harness and Wagon Co
Franklin Street
Glenn-Reagin
Bank of Tampa
Sveral
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