Emos from Urph by Mike Murphy
A patient describes hospital life as an unreal space voyage aboard a medical vehicle. Routine checkpoints include wakeups, meals, doctor visits, and night safety checks, with visitors from the outside world and occasional diagnostic trips. The piece ends when the doctor declares the ride over and real life resumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rialto
Outer Space
Health Space Vehicle
City Manager's Comer by Dale E Rieth
A Venice Florida charity feature highlights Exceptional Industries at 400 East Field Avenue. The article praises daily work by instructors counselors and workers producing genuine brotherly care beyond holiday rhetoric.
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Dale E. Rieth
East Field Avenue
Venice
Florida
Webster
David Bitner
Linda Knapp
SUN Coast Gondolier
Sun Coast Gondolier, Inc
Miami Ave
P.O
Postal Service
Timeless Quotes From Antiquity and Modern Thought
A collection of aphorisms attributed to Aristotle Cicero Herodotus and Nietzsche. The lines explore friendship love emotion wit and human nature across eras and thinkers. Each brief reflection echoes enduring themes of human experience.
Vacations Bring Longing for Escape to Gondolier Column
Norah Denison returns from a long sabbatical to the Gondolier, recounting domestic triumphs and mishaps. She notes laundry marathons, dishwashing, shopping, and tree decorating, plus a birthday night out and a new red dress.
Letter writer laments new in town trash dump site
A 1959 Venice graduate criticizes a local in-town dump near South Jackson Road, praising students who allegedly turned the former junior and senior high grounds into a public landfill. He recalls school clubs and study halls tied to ground cleanliness and thanks student bodies for relocating trash disposal to East Turin Street area.
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South Jackson Road
Business 41
Turin Street
Johnny Lamar Phillips
Venice
Litter dangers cited after fall. reader seeks lost watch
A Venice reader laments littering after his sister's severe injury from a bottle on Pensacola Road. He urges more litter cans and civic care, relates hardship, and asks for help locating a sentimental Timex watch lost in Venice last July 12. The letter ends seeking assistance from the newspaper.
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Pensacola Road
Venice
Tin Pan Alley
Woolco
Beverly D. Pinder
Winter Haven
Urges Prayer for Hostages and World Peace
A pastor urges readers to pray for the American hostages in Teheran and for world peace. She emphasizes daily prayer can influence grace and calls for unity beyond race and creed as 1980 approaches, addressing Nora Osburn.
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Teheran
Nora Osburn
Venice
Congratulations for Lucie Grey elected to Venice council
A tribute praising Lucie Grey and the city of Venice for her election to the council. It extols her nice demeanor, firmness, and proven desire to serve constituents, claiming these qualities will aid the city and bring blessings to her new role.
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Lucie Grey
Venice
Lucie
Shrine Club thanks donors for $20,000 hospital drive
The Venice Shrine Club and Crippled and Burn Hospitals benefited from a paper drive organized with the Venice Shrine Club. Irving R. Canfield, publicity chairman, notes the cooperation and help from the public, acknowledging a donation totaling about $20,000 to the hospitals.
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Shriner's
Venice Shrine Club
Crippled and Burn
Irving R. Canfield
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