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Sentence. In Miami, Judge Cecil C. Curry sentenced two men found rolling dice on a Flagler Street sidewalk to "one minute each in jail...
...smiled: only four days were cloudy between Feb. 16 and March 8. "It was worse last year," the permanent residents said (as it was). And it was a fact that the sun did not make so much difference in Florida as it was generally supposed to make. Since Henry Flagler pushed his bumpy railroad southward to Miami, and the tourists began to seek winter warmth, to millions in the U. S. Florida had become a place to rest, to play, to escape from the year-round realities at home. Up to this week, some 2,000,000 had spent...
...special gift from Harry Harkness Flagler made possible the enlargement of the quarters of the Poetry Room of the Library, originally set up and endowed by Mr. Flagler...
...omitted, however, I think, one revealing thing about the man. You did not mention the monument Carl built to Flagler, Carl's also imaginative predecessor, also pioneer of Florida's "pleasure dome." Most of Florida appears to have forgotten Flagler; Carl in his heyday...
...last saw Carl when he was ill, in one room of one of his second string hotels. As I drove along the causeway that evening after leaving him I saw his statue to Flagler out in the water with lights on it. I thought it revealed a side of Carl not so well known...