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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1920
Page
2
A crowded Laurel column reflects everyday life with small-town sketches. Mentions include Gerald Christmas, Agnes and Mildred Phillips at Nokomis entertainment, church and Sunday school work, the stave mill move, farming talk, electric lighting, and hospital visits. Local folks and light society events frame a slice of June life.
The Nokomis notes report a new saw mill expected on Curry Albee timber this week and travelers including Lonnie Harn Early Stevens John O Bannon and James Stewart heading to Baltimore for the beach harvest and North fields. Community news praises the Ragan family hospital care and plans a Hawaiian Steel Guitar Orchestra with Prof. E G Sherley seeking pupils.
A rural ad notes a setter found dead and promotes RAT-SNAP rat poison sold by Badger Pharmacy and Archibald Hardware Company with prices 25c 50c and $1.00. Ad claims six rats killed in a week and guarantees the product.
Mr. T. M. Wrede caught about one hundred pounds of mullet Monday night. The report notes the abundance of fish despite roaming razorbacks nearby.
Bee Ridge notes report visits and travel among residents including Carl Haselton and Charles Mills in Tampa, Edith Pridgeon trip through Oklahoma and Colorado, and Norma Zeigler visiting from Tampa. A Friday night Baptist entertainment raised funds for the church. A daylight attack on day watchman Teachout at the Palmer Florida Co project near Fruitville is linked to four suspects.
The Savings Division of the Third Federal Reserve District reports a sharp rise in organized savings amid a merchants price cutting wave. From June 1 to 10, 2021 workers across eastern Pennsylvania southern New Jersey and Delaware joined 55 new Government Savings Societies, directing weekly wage deductions into Savings Stamps.
The American Legion Weekly speculates on 300 mile per hour winds powering future flight and windrail utilities. It warns of dangers as private airplanes proliferate and amateur pilots attempt long cross country trips, prompting government aerial safeguards.
Fifteen year old Lewis Sargent, a freckled redhead from a large low income family, plays Huck Finn in the Paramount Artcraft screen version. Sargent began in film as an extra at Lasky studios and earlier ran a paper route in Los Angeles before joining the cast with Lila Lee in The Heart of Youth.
A feature urging that true politeness costs nothing and comes from the heart. It should begin at home, extend to all classes, and include helping the blind, lame, or deaf. Acts of courtesy are essential to a meaningful life and universal esteem.
Advertisements praise 666 Chill and Fever Tonic for curing chills fever and aiding public health. The copy touts trusted doctors druggists and citizens endorsing the remedy without providing clinical data or dosages.
The Tampa Tribune discusses DeSoto county electing two legislators on a county division platform, with plans to carve five counties from the existing area. It argues that county division requires coordinated, unified action in the legislature to succeed and warns against disputes over lines and seats.
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