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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
3
Sanford businessmen organize a Commercial Club while Punta Gorda forms a truckers association. Bowling Green plans a monster Fourth celebration. Tampa starts building a public market soon and F W Stanley of the USDA irrigation bureau installs an irrigation plant on a 58 acre grove.
Palma Sola Fruit Company to source water from an artesian well on its grounds. The move envisages accessing underground supply for operations and processing needs on site.
Several business blocks in Miami will be remodeled at a total cost of 40000 dollars. The project outlines construction and modernization across multiple storefronts to improve business prospects.
Ten carloads of watermelons were dispatched from Groveland last week heading to northern markets, signaling a robust harvest distribution and regional demand.
M. A. Marshall of Ft. Lauderdale was elected president and J. H. Gillman of Miami was elected secretary of the East Coast Stock Growers' Association.
The group comprises stock raisers from Dade and Broward counties and met in Miami. Also noted were plans for Lakeland Presbyterians to build a new church at a cost of $20,000 and Miami's upcoming city campaign to exterminate rats and roaches. Fort Myers shipped thirty-three acres of melons this season.
A new industry aims to start near Miami focusing on growing bananas for their fiber. The project targets local employment and uses banana plants to supply fiber used in textiles and other applications. Further details on investors and exact location were not disclosed.
The Auburndale News ceases publication citing lack of patronage as the cause, leaving readers and local advertisers without the newspaper. The decision reflects ongoing financial struggles impacting small regional papers.
The Central Florida Highway Association met in Orlando. Packing season ends with satisfactory results noted. J Wade Tucker builds a 25000 dollar residence on Kissimmee Orlando brick highway near Kissimmee. Jacksonville elites join a local machine gun company. Peninsular Telephone excavates wires underground in Fort Myers business district. Watermelon growers receive 30000 dollars for their produce at Fort Meade. Orange County bids requested for eight miles of road hard surfacing east of Orlando. A 15 year old Theodore Roosevelt Bryan is arrested in Pensacola for revolver theft.
Capital from Texas backs a plan transforming 33000 acres between Citrus Center and Fish Eating Creek into a rice plantation with a large mill. Seawall and riverfront fill construction near Fort Pierce to begin within three weeks, extending 1000 feet north from county property.
J. F. O'Berry trades his Kissimmee area farm to W. D. Snell a Kansas City attorney for 1140 acres in Morgan county Missouri valued at 75000 dollars. The deal uses the Missouri property as the consideration in the exchange.
The Postal Telegraph Company is building a long distance telephone line between Pensacola and Mobile and undertaking other extensive improvements in that portion of Florida.
Superintendent of roads orders placards at all Osceola county road intersections. A suggestion is made for Manatee county commissioners to follow suit. Also reported: Cassada melons from Fort Myers shipped by H. P. Johnson marking a new Italian variety entering the market.
A careful survey of the Florida Legislature membership shows a strong prohibition tendency and indicates that anti liquor legislation will be a key feature of the 1917 session.
Osceola county aims to eradicate ticks within a year through a general campaign against the cattle industry’s enemy. Action is urged within the coming weeks to organize a coordinated effort.
The five banks of Marion have agreed to set aside $1,000 to assist the county boys pig club program. The funds will be used to promote agricultural education and youth involvement in livestock projects across the county.
A proposed trolley line linking St Petersburg and Tampa across DeSoto Bay attracts attention with northern capital backing. The 1917 joint convention of the Florida State Pharmaceutical Association and Allied Travelers' Association will meet at Atlantic Beach. Lake County reports 164,310 square yards of sand asphalt completed by Wednesday night. Ocala promotes Marion County bond issue near $1 million to fund a county highway system. Fort Meade canning factory shipped canned sauerkraut and beans to Tampa wholesalers last week. Orlando citizens subscribe $15,000 to a hospital fund in a show of enterprise. Concerted effort soon tells.
Kissimmee may gain an amusement pier over the waters of Lake Tohopekaliga if plans by P. Lutz of Leonmore North Carolina materialize.
A Hastings resident has harvested 8000 dollars worth of Irish potatoes from 60 acres and is expanding on the same land by planting corn. The move marks continuation of crop diversification on the property.
Contractors plan a 50000 dollar expansion to the Royal Palm hotel in Fort Myers with completion aimed before the winter season opens. The addition will increase capacity and enhance accommodations for visitors.
Wallenstein Laboratories sets out between 150 and 200 acres of papa ya on the Little River to cultivate fruit for papain, a medicine used widely in medical practice.
The Kissimmee Valley Gazette will publish daily during November through April and revert to weekly editions in other months. This schedule aims to provide expanded coverage in winter while maintaining regular weekly issues year round.
Tavares gained another industry in the past week as Lake County Manufacturing Company opened a saw mill that began cutting a large log at its site last week.
A. F. Bass a county commissioner and leading St. Cloud citizen buys 2,500 head of cattle to be ranged in Polk county. The purchase highlights his prominent role in local affairs and signals expansion of livestock holdings nearby.
Tampa and Jacksonville will host new packing plants as the Florida Packing and Provision Company invites bids for a facility with annual capacity of 30,000 hogs and cattle. The company aims to establish the plant to process livestock in the region.
A suit was filed last week to foreclose a mortgage given in 1867 by Frederick H. Gilbert to Jas. C. Evans. The land, about 12,000 acres, lies south and east of Bristol and is now occupied by at least one hundred families.
Oscar E Baynard inspector for the Audubon Society of Florida reports a notable rise in egret numbers this year and attributes the increase to government actions that restrict hunting and protect the birds.
Polk county Masons met in Bartow to secure a Masonic Orphanage and Widows Home within the county. They propose Polk County add a $10,000 bonus to the $40,000 already appropriated by the Florida Grand Lodge at its last meeting.
The Florida National Guard will require every militia member ordered to active duty by the President to be vaccinated for typhoid and smallpox. The mandate applies even to those never vaccinated before.
Citizens petition the County Commissioners to call an election in the Winter Haven district for authorizing a bond issue of 300000 dollars to fund road improvements. The move follows prior approvals for a larger bond and aims to improve local highways and streets.
An advertisement touts Leonardi's Blood Elixir as a potent blood purifier that enriches and purges the blood to restore energy. It claims quick strengthening effects, suitability for the elderly, and cures for rheumatism catarrh blood poison and related diseases, with a money back guarantee, sold by Badger Pharmacy.
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