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iST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.—Build-
Bf records of Florida during the
pst twelve months show the facts
■gits rapid development. The
Rntestrmigration in the world’s
■rtory trough t about a vast con
fcuction ■ proftram to house the
■w comers, and the new business
p. professions and industries. Flor
id cities that a few years ago
sere ranked as small towns are to
pi' tailing about zoning laws for
peir skyscrapers.
IA marked feature was the devel
tenent to expedite the shipment
K Florida products to the North.
Bpre and larger cold storage
pants and greater facilities were
■der construction. Florida has
■yearS'sent millions to the North
pr supplies. An important work
p the year was made in the direc-
Itm of home production.
Bignßailroad Increases,
fAn extent of the year was the
peat development program under
pen by the Florida East Coast
(pway Company, in double
facking' its main lino while han
ging thft largest number of trains
bvr operated over a division of a
ingle track line. By the middle
I November, 220 miles of main
me bet^4 en Jacksonville and Miami
fed beep, double-tracked. It com
peted the program authorized for
he year* 1925. The Moultrie cut
■- south of St. Augustine, short
ged the“dista.ice between Jackson-
Hie and. Miami to 347 miles, for
merly 366 miles, and reduced the
bade stVSs to save almost an hour’s
line. to, ■‘Miami. A new freight
■pinauat South Jacksonville in
feased -the terminal capacity by
00 per eeot. While a new terminal
I Miami resulted in a 250 per cent
Freight cars at the
pcksonvflle terminal were re
nced td normal. Eleven passenger
rains (jaily each way were oper- \
ted on schedule to Miami, af
arding Through train service from
H parts of the North, with an ad- .
itional train announced for Jan.
, making a total of 24 trains daily.
“All transportation systems in ]
lorida have advanced. No resort j
action in the world has more ■,
lodem and frequent train service I
tan the great chain of cities on i
le East Coast of Florida,” said (
[r. J. D. Rahner, Gen. Passenger !
gent of the Florida East Coast i
ailway. “Our improved system t
ill give the East Coast the best <
srvice it has ever had.” I
West Palm Beach in 1910 was i
fishing village with 1,739 peo- :
e. Today it has a permanent :
filiation of 30,000 and an influx ]
E more than 60,000 visitors be- i
yeen December and May. In Octo- :
ir its building permits reached i
5,284,270, exceeding Kansas City, 1
ittsburgh, Milwaukee, and Cin- i
innati. The city has a deep water 1
mal to Lake Okeechobee and a
eh back country. _ :
| America’s Latest Prima Donna
jto Mar y Lewi*, Now Metropolitan Opera Star, Singt as She
B 'Choir singer to grand opera star In six
| time is a remarkable accomplishment,
#jr Mary Lewis, who will sing with the
Man Opera in New York, has another ac
fnent of which She might be Justly proud
baa opera turned Mary Lewis’ head? In
-1 Bhe still cooks in her little New York
be which Is kept spotlessly clean and neat.
[ that she plays the role of cook as easily
IfeM as the role of Mimi in “La Boheme"
Bfafilihahe will probably make her debut In Janu
■i and to Judge from her control of the enameled
■to saucepan she la no novice in the art of cooking.
Hum Lewis will tell you that bar knowledge at
JOES illlD THE PEW {UK. ILK GET RESULTS
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TVPICAL weWFLORir-A MOM,-, A) OV, Id A REACH
One Hundred Million Building
Mark.
When the building permits for
the year 1925 are totalled, Miami
will Em found close to or perhaps
even exceeding the $100,000,000
building mark. In October, it was
surpassed in building permits by
only five cities in the United
States, exceeding such big towns
as Cleveland and Boston. It is
becoming a city of skyscrapers.
It added more than 46 new hotels
and 315 apartment houses during
the past year, and a huge com
mercial section. Ft. Lauderdale,
Coral Gables, Hollywood, Home
stead and other nearby towns
showed marvelous growth. In
crease in population in Ft. Lauder
dale in 1925 was 13,000, giving a
population of 20,000. Assessed val
uation inereaseu from $6,112,000 in
1923 to $50,000,000 at the close of
1925. Building permits for St.
Petersburg in October were $2,902,-
600, for Tampa $2,153,824, for
Miami Beach $1,220,300 and for
Orlando $1,241,015. Miami in 1910
had a population of but 7,500 peo
pie. It dia not begin to grow rapid
ly until after the war.
Stuart, one of the newer towns, i
105 miles north of Miami, and ati
cookery haa stood her In good Mead as she traveled
r“® strenuous road to fame. She was forced to earn
her own living and many times that meant prepare
tag her own meals.
Her career really began when she ran away from
her home to Little Rock. Arkansas, because she waa
tired of being spanked ana being told not to do
things, and she maintains that no girt in any of
“ 6 J h .°™ Sh * a PP* llr6 < 1 to from "Reekless Eve” to
Ziegfeld’s Follies ever had quite as many spankings
as she received at the hands of her foster mother.
She will confess to you that spanking was an im
portant part of her education, but that she would
not be where she is today if she had not learned s
Uttta something about the art o£ nnokiaw
the mouth of the St. Lucie River,!
had $510,000 in building per
mits in 1924. The first eleven
months of 1925 showed a total in
vestment of over $1,250,000. Bank
deposits increased 300 per cent.
Over 1,000 people came into Stuart
to buy homes and expect to be
counted as permanent residents.
Daytona Beach Speeds Up.
The new city of Dayton Beach,
Eopulation 22,000, consolidates
'aytona, Daytona Beach, and Sea
breeze. Building permits for Sep
tember, 1925, the highest month,
amounted to $1,384,600. while in
1924 they amounted to but $1,414,-
000. They were all for structures
under $50,000 and show the city is
building homes. Several large and
costly subdivisions are adding to
the permanent population. The city
is stepping along with the fastest
to Florida. Chamber of commerce
estimates there will be 2,000 new
homes in March or April. During
the winter upwards of 100,000 vis
itors are entertained in Daytona
Beach and some 20,000 in summer.
St. Augustine’s Big Record.
St. Augustine is experiencing
a phenomenal development un
known in its 360 years. In the first
tea months of 1925 the building!
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE ~ 7 5
1 permits reached a total of $2,521,-
I 999. Among new projects is that
°f D. P. Davis, who created the
Davis Islands by raising sunken
land in Tampa Bay, a half mile
from the Tampa City Hall. The
Davis project in St. Augustine will
involve a total outlay of $50,000,-
000. It will make that city one of
the busiest of its size and involves
the raising of sunken lands, half
a mile from the St. Augustine
waterfront. A large fleet of
dredges is at work. Before a single
plat was available, citizens of St
Augustine and of the whole coun
try had oversubscribed the first
unit of the property amounting to
$11,268,000. by the sum of $7,137,-
000, a total of $18,405,000 being re
ceived.
A “White W*y v lighting system,
a sea wall, b new Soft water sys
tem with 59 miles of water mains,
and the filling in of several hun
dred acres adjacent to the city are
■among municipal projects. St
Augustine has ■ fine healthful
climate and is the center of varied
industries.
The total resources of Florida
banks, which on June 30,1924, were
$346,762,923, had almost doubled
by June 30, 1925, for they were
1 $685,335,232, V ,
EMBARRASSING MOMENTS
New York Mirror.
The sidewalks were very slippery
the other morning and I saw whom I
took to he n friend of mine on his
way to the office. 1 walked up be
hind him and slapped him suddenly oti
the back. He lost his footing and fell.
When he looked up I saw, not my
friend, but a stranger. My apologies,
were not accepted, anil the early morn
ing crowds heard me getting a calling
down.
One evening my five-year-old sister
and I went to a theatre. I wore my
watch, which had been broken for a
long time. In the the theatre a man
asked me the time. 1 did not wish to
tell him my watch was broken, and
said, “I'm afraid my watch has stop
ped.” My sister said in a loud voice,
“Oh. how can you say such things:
you know very well your watch has
been broken for a long time.
While working in a fruit store a
lady made some purchases, so I took
one of her heaviest parcels and hand
ed it to her husband, and said, “Here
you are noeripple," To my embar
rassment he was. '
I was about to sneeze while sitting
in a trolley, but the feeling passed
away. A little girl sitting across from'
me noticed the action ami called her
mother, saying, "Mother, that ma% is
making faces at me.”
I wished to try out a new job, and
got off on sick leave from the present
one. In case I should lose my new
job. I wished to have the old one to
return to. After being on the job two
days I was sent on a message to my
former employer.
It was the first of the month and
the landlord was expected. As 1 was
alone I decided to lock the door and
remain very quiet until my unwelcome
visitor w#nt away. Someone knocked
on the door, and upon receiving no
answer tried the knob. The door flew
open and there stood the landlord
staring at me. You can imagine how
embarrassed I felt.
The New Hampshire University
winter sporta team will include
Gunnar Michelson. winner of last
year's Intercollegiate Winter Sports
Union ski-juraping championship;
Stewart Weston, winner of the Mar
shal Fosh Ski Jumping trophy at'
Lake Placid in 1925, and F. W.
Pessless. winner of the Intercollegiate
Winter Sports Union snow shoes
croflMountry championships hurt
season.
A French historian has written,
“Money is like the water of a rlveC;
if it suddenly 'floods, it devastates;
divide it into a thousand channels
where it circulates quietly and it
bringß life and fertility to evCry
■pet.”
Effi) OF TEAR GOOD TIME TO
| START THRIFT PRACTICES
By «. W. STRAUB,
President American Society for
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•W/ITH the end at another year
W at hand, today la a good time
to take stock of one’s IndhrMaa)
pmgrrea
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Maray. the past
year haa keen
wasted aaleai
r ' You tome anwerf
aametfalnK oaf
at your earn
tags. For atadag
mosey hi the
final teat oj
one's penonai
a. W. STRAUS upterfliMpg
It may be easy
enaagh -to .And excoaea- ter Jaek «d
thodßt, but ft is toon*-to take ads
aßOtode.
Unless llin i mai eery
ooßsual, the teat of year aueams
ties to your-aUnty tpaaasa. lfyss
have not enough wIH jwaar to 4o
this, the chance of yatr making
progress is slight.
Let this day he asm of ftam
decision in this reagent mat only
because of the tnamedlate-i—limit
of money that it will mean to y«u
in .your bank or your strong-box,
but also on account of the stability
of character it will give you.
If you have been tlvtof beyond
your means, now is a gaol *Une to
pull yourself together and start on
a new basis of spending leas than
you earn.
The man who starts next year
with a definite resolution to save
money and get ahead will Bad that
before he is far along in IBM these
fixed habits will accomplish tar
rnoee for him than he ever dreamed
could be the case.
If the old year and the ones pre
ceding it have brought only failure
and disappointment to yon, do not
be discouraged.
Let all the unpleasant memories
of the past he burled with the years
that have gone.
In this endeavor your very first
step must be a firm resolution to
practice thrift
I NTREASING LEISURE TIME.
Charlotte News.
The few Americans who are hold
ing out against providing for the
spare time of our working popula
tion, or doing something, at least, to
make it possible for the increasing
amount of leisure which tnose peo
ple Ire coming to have, be profitably
useiti may as well make up their
minds now that it is an issue that
can not be superficially dealt with or
summarily brushed aside.
The fact that the American work
ingmen have today a shorter work
time than ever before only ag
gravates ami complicates the prob
lem of leisure which is comparative
ly a new thing in this country. Al
though workmen's wages are higher
now than ever, at the same time,
hours of work have been shortened to
a point never before reached, we
learn from the department of labor.
The department studied working
conditions which govern the activ
ities of more than 700,000 members
of organized trades in the United
States. The study disclosed that
working time in a week has been
gradually decreasing.
Taking the average working time
in the year 1913 as a basis, it was
found that the working time in
1925 was 7 per cent less than in
1913. A year ago the working time
per week was (i.l per cent less than
in 1913. The 1924 figures exactly
equalled that of 1921.
From 1921 to 1922 there was a
small increuse in weekly working
time and a very small decrease from
191*2 to 1923. This is explained by
the fact that in 1921 there was un
employment and workers were in a
less ailvaiiUigeoues |K*sition to insist
on the shorter day. The effort of this
extended into the next two years.
With a cessation of unemployment,
however, the tend toward shortening
of working time set In once more.
The Government figures establish
that the American worker has more
leisure than any other in the world,
a fact which comes forcibly to the
attention of many foreign observers
in the United States.
doesn’t -nave a particle of
effect upon the situation what we
maw personally think about this con
dition, whether we approve of it or
not. It is a situation that confronts
us and not a mere theory, aqd it
ought to be dealt with a« such.
To bemoan the fact that there is
so much leisure time or arbitrarily
to assert thnt the best way to handle
the leisure-time problem is to cut it
out is not getting anything.
A sick man may as well contend
that he has no business being siek
and try to get well that way as for
the American people simply to assert
that the workingman of our country
ought to be working at such length
that the leisure-time equation would
solve itself.
“A Dosen Dempseys Can’t Knock
Me Out.” In the January ot Muscle
Builder, a Macfudden publication,
there is the account of Frank Anson
Richard whom seven men with a
battering ram could not dent. He
can stand the hardest sort of sledge
hammer blew* in the stomach and
kidneys. “From a Hollow Cheated
Youth to England’s Strongest Boy”
this is the record of Eric Trengrove,
wha was given up by the doctors
four years ago and who today at six
teen i* the strongest boy in England.
Muscle Like Bandow'e”
Inal ambition made Clarenes Weber
Australia's strongest man and he
is still champion after twenty-one
years. These are only a few of the
stories Appearing to the current Is
sue, '
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The Ads In This
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are a never-failing source of information re
garding the things you want and the things you
need. They tell you about the newest and best,
together with the prices and the places where
they can be most advantageously obtained. Do
you read them carefully before you make your
purchases? Look them over before you lay this
paper aside.
TODAY’S EVENTS
Wednesday. December 23. 1925
Check up your Christmas list to
day !
One hundred and twenty years ago
today was born Joseph Smith, the
founder of the Mormon Church.
Greetings to Oscar S. Straus, son
of a Jewish immigrant who has risen
to be one of America's foresmost citi
zens, and who is 75 years old to
day.
Emiliana Figumn-Larrain will be
formally installed as President of
Chile today in succession of Arture
Alessandria, wfio recently resigned.
A statute of Nathaniel Hawthorne
will be unveiled today in Salem,
Mass., with which place the famous
author was intimately associated dur
ing his lifetime. The unveiling oere
money will be performed by Rosa
mond Mikkelson, of Danbury. Conn.,
a granddntighter of Hawthorne.
Our Richest Cabinet.
The present cabinet is one of the
wealthiest on record.
Secretary of the Treasury Melllon
is its richest member. His fortune,
which ranks among the greatest in
the country, makes him 300 times a
millionaire. He made it in bunk
ing. railroads and steel.
Now comes Secretary of Commerce
Hoover who is believed to be wort'.t
up to $10,000,000, derived from bis
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BEWARE THE
COUGH OR COLD
THAT HANGS ON
Persistant coughs tad colds lead to
serious trouble. You can stop them
now with Creomulrion, an emulsified
creoeote that ia pleasant to take. Creo
mulsion is a new medical discovery
with two-fold action; it soothes and
heals the In.
hibits germ growth.
Os all known drugs, creosote is rec
ognised by [high medical authoritiee aa
one of the gTEfitMt flgmirfllf fftP
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mining interests all over the world.
Secretary of State Kellogg is one
of the few lawyers who ever made
$5,000,000.
Secretary of Labor Davis is the
richest man to hold that pest.
Though he started out in iife as an
iron puddier he later made a fortune
in fraternal and banking circles.
Dr. Work, secretary of the interior,
accumulated his million through his
big sanatorium and by careful invest
ment.
ou 0801
\ feel so good
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Wednesday, Dec. 23, 1925
COINS
Lift Off-No Pain!
Doesn’t hurt one bit 1 Drop a little
“Freesone” on an aching corn, in
stantly that coni stops hurting, then
shortly you lift it right off with
angers. .
Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of
“Freesone” for a. few cents, sufficient
to remove every hard corn, soft corn,
or com between the toes, and the foot
calluses, without soreness or irrita
tion.