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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
4
The notice states the Sarasota publication is issued every Thursday in Sarasota County Florida with Mrs C V S Wilson as editor and proprietor and confirms second class mailing status.
The Sarasota Times marks its sixteenth year of publication. Manatee bond issue for water works sewerage and streets passes by wide margin. Tampa gains new steamship line linking New Orleans and Boca Grande with a ten day schedule. Weather bureau notes May as driest since 1899. Florida State Good Roads Association to meet in Jacksonville June 10 to promote statewide road legislation and appoint county vice presidents to push improvements.
Lakeland considers a bond issue of 125000 for municipal improvements. The city owned electric light plant charges 10c per kilowatt hour for lights. A petition signed by a large share of property owners calls for lowering rates to 6c for lights and 2c for power and heat, pressuring the administration to decide.
A Canadian Pacific liner the Empress of Ireland sank within fifteen minutes after a collision with the Norwegian Storstadt in the St Lawrence river. One thousand thirty four passengers were aboard. fewer than a third were rescued. An inquiry by Canadian and English authorities will follow.
Manatee county elected commissioners support a bond issue to finance roads and bridges. They urge timely voter information and emphasize accessibility to attract new residents, noting other counties spend large sums with outside capital. An October or December vote is planned to start work before winter arrivals.
H. H. Richardson state manager of the Southern Settlement and Development Organization says Florida can secure $100,000 for world wide publicity to attract settlers. Counties plan to subscribe, and a legislative bill for a state publicity tax will be pushed to fund the effort. Jacksonville Metropolis.
Osceola County commissioners approved an appropriation plus USDA funds to hire a farm expert. The piece stresses that farm experts learn from farmers and relay practical lessons to scientists and policymakers, urging cooperation among farmers, agencies, and colleges to advance agricultural knowledge.
Plans are rapidly forming for the Strawberry Growers Association with practical work to begin in the coming weeks to get operations started and organized.
J. A. Pride, general industrial agent of the Seaboard, makes a semi occasional visit to Sarasota. The genial official is a good friend of Manatee county and his trips here always strengthen the pleasant relations he enjoys with the business community.
W A Saunders has sold his interest in the general merchandise business at Bee Ridge. The firm Sanders and Driggers continues with Horace Driggers as general manager and B J Holland as an associate in the business.
Leviticus influence on Scottish eating habits appears in eel and shellfish prejudice. Snail eating is described by Col Newnham Davis noting Price's silver service and hot sauce with lard onions and garlic as the key elements of the ritual.
The Manchester Guardian notes that a great actor’s sensibilities expand beyond common scope and can be expressed passionately or profoundly through personal traits. It contrasts this with an accomplished actor who can render a Dickens character concrete and true to itself.
A New York man leases an 34 room eight bath apartment, a setting for a humorous reflection on memory and daily life as the challenge of recalling where a pipe was left appears in this excerpt.
A relic site at Gaping Hills Hitchin Hereford England yielded a circular two foot hole unearthed by a plow horse in a furrow. Two flint implements typical of ancient Briton quarries were discovered, suggesting a prehistoric quarry site in the area.
A comic exchange depicts a man explaining how he waters his plants while his wife is away. Becker jokes that he keeps the plants in the bathtub to ensure they stay hydrated.
A woman leaves 1000 for each cat on Madeira island. A similar gift for every cat on Manhattan would be so large it cannot be measured, larger than the value of all Christmas presents relatives will hint at.
A man lamented learning to play cards while his wife retorted with sarcasm saying he may have wished he had learned after all. The exchange highlights a tense moment over a losing hand.
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