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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1911
Page
3
Sarasota society items list residents traveling to Bradenton and Jacksonville, new houses and hotel work, shop arrivals including hats and footwear, church services, post office staffing, and local sales events. Several arrivals from Tampa, Lakeland, and Jacksonville are noted along with the Methodist and Baptist church activities and a Catholic charity sale.
Dr Robert Gemill Wallace died at the Sarasota Hotel on Friday June 2 1911 at 1 p m. He was born in Huntsville Ohio in 1830 and served as pastor of United Presbyterian churches in Providence Rhode Island Burlington New York Rock Prairie Wisconsin Bellaire Ohio and San Diego California. His wife and two children were drowned on the Pacific coast years ago leaving one surviving daughter who with her husband Dr Thomas Cummings worked in India before returning to New Wilmington Pennsylvania. He settled in Sarasota six years ago and helped establish a small stone church on Orange Avenue with C V S Wilson. A funeral was held in Huntsville Ohio after a brief Sarasota service led by Rev J Fraser Cock.
On behalf of his daughter and myself I thank friends who ministered to Dr. Wallace in his last hours and for the affection and kindness shown. Thus F. Cummings. Wanted at once two first class carpenters. no others need apply. A. C. Merser.
The W C T U district convention meets in Bradenton on the 15th and 16th with a Grand Gold Medal Contest and an instrumental music contest on the 16th. Sarasota girls Sallie Mae Williams and Marguerite Seale will contest. Minnie Neal will speak at the Methodist church on the 15th. Dr Joseph Halton will be absent from Sarasota January 10 to August 1 for a study at New York Postgraduate School.
A German master develops a portable two cushion swimming device that inflates in seconds and fits around the torso. Lined with canvas and fabric, it supports body stability while keeping head and neck free, allowing vertical or horizontal positions and prolonged water time without fatigue.
Lax Fos marketed for liver and bowel health priced at 50 cents and one dollar sold at a neighborhood drugstore named Badger Pharmacy.
A solid citizen recalls how Maas Bros. praised a dear old housekeeper who has acted like a mother. He noticed his silver shaving mug tarnish and asked her to polish it, waking to a sun shining shine the next morning. He thanks her for her kindness.
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