Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Charles R. Erwin, 68, Chairman of Board, Erwin Wasey & Co. Ltd. (advertising); at Winter Haven, Fla.; of heart disease...
Died. Charles Ringling, 62, one of the seven famed circus brothers, sixth to die; at Sarasota, Fla., of cerebral hemorrhage. Beginning a seven-man show (themselves the artists) in their home town, Baraboo, Wis., in 1882, they acquired profits the first season of $60 apiece, which they spent on evening clothes and silk hats. By 1890 they were competing with Barnum & Bailey, whose circus they finally bought (1907) for $410,000, gaining thereby practical circus monopoly of the U. S. and Canada. During this material growth they rose from boyhood self-education to culture. Brother John (sole survivor) was recently...
...Orlando, Fla...
There is in the cigarmaker's trade a monotony which he tries to vary by whistling, by singing, by talking, above all by thinking. Last week an anonymous correspondent at Tampa, Fla., reported as a news feature that local cigar-makers had hired elocutionists to read to them and distract them from thinking while at work. Tampa cigarmakers had such readers before their strike...
Miami Chamber of Commerce Miami, Fla...