Florida spring hints and license tag extension noted
Editorial by G A Nichols from Babson Park Florida dated February 3 1939 discusses lack of ground hogs casting shadows in Florida early spring notions compares northern delays notes Governor Cone extended automobile license tag renewal to February 15 due to citrus downturn and hardship mentions egg price 33 cents a dozen shipments from Iowa grape fruit bread and juice uses in baking reports grapefruit price 32 cents a box for some growers robins and other birds praised Florida Water Conservation League opposition canal route inspection by House rivers and harbors committee names origin of plant names Poinsettia Wisteria fuchsia and forsythia with their named discoverers and honorees.
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Cone
Finley
E. S. MacDonald
The
Florida Water Conservation League
House Rivers and Harbors Committee
South Florida
Mansfield
Washington
Jacksonville
Florida
Port Inglis
Bougainvillea Tribute and Tourist Bridge Counts
Louis Antoine de Bougainville is honored in the bougainvillea, while the paulownia bears the name of Grand Duchess Anna Pavlova. Rubinoff the violinist performed in Tampa, and he may visit Bok Tower at Lake Wales before departing Florida. A total of 4806 out of state cars with baggage were counted crossing the Gandy Bridge into St. Petersburg last month, including 613 from New York and 509 from Pennsylvania. State tallies cover Alabama to Wyoming and Canada plus Canal Zone, totaling readers from 147 foreign entries and 1 crossing from Canal Zone.
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Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Anna Pavovna
Paul I
Rubinoff
Tampa
Bok
Lake Wales
Gandy Bridge
St. Petersburg
New York
Pennsylvania
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Canada
Canal Zone
Mountain Lake resort near Lake Wales hosts Bok tower and golf
The Mountain Lake resort near Lake Wales features the Bok Tower and Sanctuary, a public friendly site with a famed sixteen hole golf course and a prestigious club. notable residents include the Misses Cobb and Georgia Deming who funded Bible gifts for about twelve hundred students in Lake Wales and Babson Park. President Roosevelt outlined foreign policy positions stressing no entangling alliances, world trade for all nations, arms reduction, and support for peaceful independence of nations.
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Lake Wales
Mountain Lake
Bok Tower
Florida
Cobb
Babson Park
Georgia Deming
Costs Less for Poor Outside County Farm
Iowa reports show total county home costs for 1937 at 908 321 and outside county poor home costs at 7 218 077, with per week and per person figures rising from 1936. County variation highlighted includes top and bottom performers, combined inmate totals, and potential savings if all counties ran at the low end.
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Iowa
Auditor of State
Woodbury
Harrison
Polk
Webster
Wapello
Madison
Johnson
Crawford
Cass
Scott
Clayton
Grundy
Tama
Mills
Worth
Mitchell
Wayne
Kossuth
Emmet
Dickinson County
Osceola
Palo Alto
Clay
Emmet County
Pocahontas
Humboldt
Jefferson
Sac
Floyd
Hancock
Cherokee
Butler
Plymouth
Shelby
Warren
Clarke
Adair
Franklin
Carroll
Audubon
U S Death Rate Lowest In History 1938 Outlook
Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general, said unless an epidemic occurs the nation will record the lowest death rate in 1938. First half mortality fell 8 percent from 1937 to 11 deaths per 100 persons, with cancer the sole category rising 8 percent due to better diagnosis.
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Thomas Parran
United States Public Health Service
J H Edge Inaugurated as University Head at Mitchell
Dr Joseph Edge was inaugurated as president of Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell South Dakota after serving as pastor at Spirit Lake. The ceremony began with a reception and banquet Monday and the inaugural service followed Tuesday in the college chapel with an academic procession.
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Mitchell
S. D
Joseph Edge
Dakota Wesleyan University
Edge
Spirit Lake Methodist Church
University At
Alexander Dumas and the enduring appeal of The Three Musketeers
A playful review of Alexander Dumas and his work notes The Three Musketeers as a long time bestseller read worldwide in many languages. It highlights Dumas as a famed writer with flamboyant habits, dramatic debts, duels, and a prolific output ending in poverty, while praising his vivid character creation that endures nearly a century after his death.
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Robinson Crusco
Alexander Dumas
Hig Bluff
Alexander
Dumas
Jack Dempsey
Europe
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Vindicator
Vindicator and Republican Co
George A. Nichols
Estherville
Town
Henry George
G. A. Nichols
Perry
Republican
Joel R. Poinsett
Caspar Wistar
Philadelphia
Leonard Fuchs
Fuchsia
William Forsyth
Roosevelt
P.W.A
W.P.A
Iowa Emergency Relief Administration
Relief Administration
Jimmy
Father
U. 8 S
J. H. Edge
W.R
Hopkins
Herbert Morrison
Dale Carnegie
Duck Ag
Bismarck
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