Venice News notes local growth and seaside life
Our rainless season continues as Dr. A F Wrede builds a concrete curb project in Nokomis and Col E B Duncan advances railroads toward Manasota. Venice residents see road work by Curry and Turner, citrus groves slow to bloom, and fishermen keeping busy with nightly chugs and turtle finds.
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A. F. Wrede
Nokomis
R. H. Harn
Curry
Turner
Englewood
C. O. Curry
Mabel
Venice
F. A. Curry
Venice Fish Co
Osprey
Vick
England
Leonardi's Blood Elixir Promises New Life and Vitality
An advertisement claims Leonardi's Blood Elixir cures nervous debility and weakness by increasing red blood cells, boosting energy, and improving digestion. It asserts relief from malaria germs, liver and kidney regulation, with a money back offer and Badger Pharmacy as the seller.
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Leonardi
Badger Pharmacy
Salt River Phrase Becomes Symbol Of Political Defeat
The piece recalls how the expression gone up Salt river originated from a defeated politician retreating to Kentucky’s Salt River area. It traces how the simple remark became a nationwide metaphor for a politician driven from public life and unable to make a comeback.
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United States
Christian Science Monitor
Lincoln
Grant
Salt River
Kentucky
Ohio
The Future of the Classics in American Education
Charles W. Eliot argues in the Atlantic that Greek and Roman languages will remain attractive to literary minds but will cease to be a dominant part of general secondary and higher education. He cites an excess of histories sciences and modern literatures as reasons Latin no longer holds its centuries old place in youth training.
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Greece
Rome
Charles W. Eliot
Atlantic
Six Cities One Should See
Julian Street in Collier's argues six must see cities on the continent New York San Francisco Washington Quebec City Charleston and New Orleans. He praises New York for grandeur San Francisco for vitality Washington for national idealism Quebec for historic fortification Charleston for aristocratic tradition and New Orleans for its character.
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Julian Street
Collier’s
New York
San Francisco
Washington
Quebec
France
Charleston
New Orleans
The Song Bird's Moods
The author argues birds express various moods beyond tender passion through vocalizations. Bird song, evolving with natural expressive desire, includes lyric dramatic serious and comic tones, recitative and oratorical methods. Language is supreme. bird song remains a beautiful though imperfect language.
Bridget and Misrepresentation at the House
A theatrical exchange features Bridget insisting she will not be discharged and demands two weeks’ notice. The Lady of the House threatens arrest for obtaining money under false pretenses after Bridget claims she presented herself as a cook.
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Bridget
Dream of Equal Suffrage Nets Garden Victory
Alice Hanson wins county suffrage endorsement after a staged dinner with Mrs. Watkins, Mrs. Worthington, and Mrs. Ellis. David Markham, torn by his opposition, votes yes and imagines a future visiting Alice in her flower garden. The scene unfolds in a small town during a pivotal vote in 1917.
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Alice
David Markham
David
Watkins House
Bedestal
McClure
Poem and Potato Trade Note from 1917 Moncton
The excerpt blends Emersons tribute to the Concord Bridge fighting 1775 with a 1917 Moncton note noting 16 253 bushels of potatoes valued at 27150 dollars shipped to the United States. The two items show wartime sentiment and wartime commerce in a compact community record.
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Moncton
N. B
United States
Patriotic Convicts Seek Army Enlistment in Lemon Bay Camps
A letter from Lemon Bay Turpentine Camp convicts at Venice Florida asks Gov Sidney J Catts to aid their enlistment in the army during wartime. Catts replies praising their patriotism and promising to publish the appeal to rally public support. Also notes a 9 year old boy in Yamhill Oregon killed a cougar and a Manatee County Justice of the Peace attachment summons Theodore Kargau to appear for a debt suit in Sarasota with publication.
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Sidney J. Catts
Tallahassee
Fla
Lemon Bay Turpentine Co
Venice
United States of America
America
J. H. G. Robinson, Jr
Florida
George B. Ross
Theodore Kargau
Sarasota
Street Crossings Repairs Improve City Rail Crossings
The Seaboard Air Line railway repairs all street crossings within the city limits, making crossing the tracks a more pleasant experience and removing prior anxiety once the grades were fixed.
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Seaboard Air Line Railway
Can Your Vegetables Help The Canning Club
Surplus vegetables brought to the Canning Club at the High school for winter canning. Members supply labor and divide produced cans 50 50. Mrs. R H Edwards elected business manager. Last Friday 160 tomato cans were produced with Mr. Bryan of New Pearce supplying tomatoes and receiving 80 cans.
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Ned
R. H. Edwards
Bryan
New Pearce
Defending Appropriations In A Sardonic Exchange
Dr Oliver Hobson argues against pork barrel style funding while a Tart Waitress chorus via a Washington Star quote critiques post office spending and municipal largesse. The piece uses a sharp parable about a drummer and corn on the cob to illustrate electors’ pain and prudent budgeting concerns.
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Oliver Hobson
Pocatella
Pocatella House
Washington Star
Sarasota bids sought for paving alley project in 1917
City of Sarasota invites bids by July 16 1917 at 7 30 p m for about 900 square yards of alley paving from Lemon to Pineapple with brick asphalt or shell options. 20 foot total width including curb payments in cash or ten year bonds at 6 percent interest. Bid deposits $500. Plans on file with Public Works. Trigg Tuttle commissioner.
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Sarasota
Florida
Main Street
Lemon Avenue
Commissioner of Public Works
Trigg Tuttle
Public Works
Ex-service men urged to form an organization
A Times letter proposes organizing ex soldiers sailors and marines to improve efforts at flag dedication ceremonies. Ex-member G Co 13th Infantry Sarasota calls for all veterans to meet at Line's shop at 7 30 pm Friday evening June 29 to share views before forming the group.
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United States Service
Line
G. Co
13Th Infantry
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