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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1910
Page
2
Local notice catalog outlines subscription rates for The Sarasota Times and public addresses for the Sarasota, Manatee area. It specifies publication charges for religious and social features and states rates for ads over ten lines and merchandise listings.
The Lakeland News reports Tampa honors Fire Chief A. J. Harris who led the city fire department since 1890, describing his death as sudden and noting his statewide reputation. It also mentions the American Pomological Society meeting in Tampa and growth at the University of Florida’s district colleges with new buildings and a faculty of forty six.
Joly, Mrs. Margaret E. Sangeter presents an opinion on suffrage while the Lower Room shares vacation advice for girls. Two practical bungalows aid home builders and Kate V Saint Maur writes with affection about neglected house pets. Summer reading and entertainment fill the issue alongside stories, verse, and a charming song titled Return Again.
The Sarasota town council met December 14 1909 with J A Clark presiding. A motion appointed Dr Joseph Halton as clerk pro tem amid Higel dissent over legality. Mayor Gillespie reported suspending Town Clerk Chaplin Jr who had taken town books. The ordinance on clerk hours passed second reading. meeting adjourned.
The Sarasota mayor reports to the Town Council that the Supreme Court reversed Judge Wall’s injunction, allowing suspension proceedings against Clerk and Treasurer J. B. Chapline Jr. The mayor urges immediate action, cites misfeasance and neglect, and asks missing minutes be restored and the decision recorded.
Dr F C Fenhagen president of Canton Lumber Co Baltimore died at his home on the thirteenth of the month from heart and kidney troubles. He was born in Baltimore fifty five years ago and was a physician by education but later joined the lumber trade. He leaves a widow sister and a brother. Funeral services were conducted by Rev Robi P Kerr and featured Knight Templar pallbearers and Masonic honors.
The Seaboard Air Line announces a 40 mile Florida track expansion with the key 22 mile Sarasota to Venice extension. Kibler and Anderson of Dunnellen awarded the contract, work to start tomorrow with a six month completion forecast. Prominent buyers follow the route through the Venice area.
Major Alfred Dreyfus studies social problems in his leisure hours. Herbert J. Gladstone becomes viscount after elevation to peerage. Lloyd George praised as clubbable by MPs. Colonel Anderson resembles Grant and serves in New York. Duke of Norfolk, premier duke and England’s postmaster general, led in Boer War. Ludwig Lewisohn notes his Berlin birth and multiple marriages across states. Dr Max Wolf of Heidelberg discovered many asteroids but has never seen one firsthand.
The town of Sarasota announces a special election on Tuesday July 5 1916 to fill a council seat due to a resignation. Inspectors named Walter T. Bryan George L. Bromley and George L. Roberts. Clerk W E Keener. Dated June 11 1910. Mayor J Hamilton Gillespie attests.
Miss Jane Addams of Hull House Chicago chosen president of the national conference of charity and corrections. Mrs. Susan W. Fitzgerald re-elected secretary of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association For Good Government. Carrie B H Crane first city clerk of Gloucester Massachusetts. Anna Price northwest pioneer who did quartz claim assessment with her own hands. Bessee A Dwyer helped establish Congressional and Philippine libraries. A Scotchman and the Quito earthquake anecdote ends with quick witted exclamation Esto Pronto. The Red Squirrel details maple sap tapping behavior.
An old advertisement extols Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the quickest healer for knife cuts gun wounds rust nails burns boils sores eczema chapped hands piles and skin eruptions. Priced at 25 cents at all druggists.
The reflection argues that poets turn affliction into art, citing Goethe. It asserts that great music and poetry often arise from hardship, suggesting life’s lessons gain value through pain and cost.
An ad notes poor milk can be blamed on infant weight loss due to intestinal worms and promotes White's Cream Vermifuge as a safe cure. It also advertises Dr King's New Life Pills as a universal laxative remedy, with prices and a testimonial from Buffalo, New York.
A Minnesota inventor receives a patent for a cash register that carries a phonograph to announce figures when keys are pressed. An adjustable sprinkling device by a New Yorker helps wet hot ashes for safer heater cleaning. The note on Victoria Falls provides the local name Mosi oa tunya meaning smoke thunders there.
The Kansas City Star details traders in stockyards relying on canes and whips to move cattle. Hickory canes with curved handles weigh about 24 ounces, cost 25 to 50 cents, and are made of various woods. Whips range from 75 cents to $1, including heavy buggy whips, while humane practices avoid leaving marks.
William B. Webb of Osprey Florida filed intent to make Final Confirmation Proof for Lot 2 Section 4 Township 38 South Range 18 East Tallahassee Meridian. Hearing before the Clerk of the Circuit Court in Bradenton Florida will be held July 13 1910. Witnesses include Victor A. Saunders Jessie B. Shuward Thomas J. McAnly and Zachariah M. Drymon all of Florida. Henry S. Chubb Register.
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