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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1910
Page
2
The Sarasota Times lists subscription rates and postal notices. It reports Western Union suspending Jeffries Johnson July 4th race bulletins and notes curfew hours forcing early post office closure, displeasing customers.
The community discusses a stone library to house books and provide a reading room. Col J H Lord offers a donated lot within a block of the upper fountain if a sufficient pledge is raised to erect a suitable building near the church bank post office and hotels for accessibility.
A. T. Cornwell announces today the transfer of his fire insurance business to R. H. Johnson a prominent local banker and president of Manatee County Abstract and Title Insurance Co. Johnson brings ten years of fire insurance experience and is recommended to Cornwell’s customers for continued service.
A Seaboard Air Line branch from Fruitville to Venice, a 20 mile line, will unlock 70 000 to 100 000 acres owned by the Potter Palmer Chicago estate in Manatee County Florida. J H Lord of Sarasota Chicago and J W White Seaboard official say the project will create winter colonies along Sarasota Bay and benefit Tampa and surrounding counties. Mrs Potter Palmer and Honore Palmer plan bungalows and a winter villa on prime beach and bayshore lands.
Sarasota council adjourned and reconvened amid quarrel over clerk's duties and county records. Sessions discuss street bids, sewering, bayfront property payments, and a mayoral action disputed by Hiegel with adjournment and pending approvals.
The Masonic order and Woodmen of the World begin moving into and fitting their rooms in the Blackburn building. G W Franklin will occupy two stores, an iron ceiling and fittings are being completed, a large cypress water tank has arrived, and sidewalks are being laid. Dr Curry moved his dental office in yesterday and Dr Wilson plans to move soon.
An old advertisement claims five or six doses of 666 will cure chills and fever with a price of 25 cents. The tone is promotional and concise, presenting a quick remedy and cost.
After months of practice led by Dr. F W Schultz with assistance from Mr Liebert the Sarasota Brass Band will perform on the Sarasota Hotel piazza July 4. Mrs J G Hart proprietor of The Sarasota will host a 6:30 p m birthday supper for the band as the public is invited to hear patriotic and national airs.
Mayor J Hamilton Gillespie proclaims a special election on Tuesday July 5 1910 to fill the Sarasota town councillor seat vacated by J A Clark with term ending November 1 1910 inspectors named Walter T Bryan George L Bromley and George L Roberts clerk W E Keener dated June 11 1910 Attest Town Clerk J B Chapline Jr. seal
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