Исторические события 3 сентября: от школьной статистики 1887 года до гибели врача в урагане 1935-го

Today in History – Sept. 3Free Access September 3 In 1887, Putnam County had 64 public schools. In 1909, the Florida agent for the New York Produce News in his article about San Mateo wrote, “This little city is in Putnam County on the east bank of the St. Johns River,” the terminus of branch of the Florida East Coast Railway and with fine river transportation, giving it reasonable freight charges; last year 35,000 boxes were shipped and growers expected to ship 50,000 boxes of oranges and grapefruit this year. In 1910, occupying the old opera house, the Corral, Wodiska & Co.’s cigar manufactory had a full staff of men, all Cubans who did not speak English, but Mr. Wodiska assured The News they were all well pleased with Palatka. In 1914, John Mallen, the caterer of soft drinks on Lemon Street, said he was growing hair on his bald head after being told Mange cure for dogs restored hair. “I tell barbars and now shop up Lemon Street use mange cure on all hees patients for loss of whiskers on head,” Mallen said. In 1921, the Palatka Daily News reprinted a New York article, “Bobbed Hair Finds Many Devotees as Well as Many Who Are Scornful,” saying some people had begun to take bobbed hair seriously. In 1924, E.R. Conway was granted permission to run a water main from a well he was drilling to give service to houses in the Heights not reached by the city. In 1934, much work was being done to make the local Azalea Paradise a greater drawing card for tourists when it opened on Dec. 1st; the greatest change would be found in the Court of States at the main entrance and at the terraced entrance to the Ravines proper. In 1935, Dr. Daniel C. Main, Spanish American War veteran, prominent Putnam County resident and physician, was killed when the tropical hurricane struck the veteran’s camp on the Florida Keys, where he was the medical director of the hospital on Matecumbe Key. He could have left prior to the storm but remained with his patients. In 1939, a tract of more than 25,000 acres of land near the Kingsley Lake-Keystone Heights area was approved by the U.S. War Department for the new Florida National Guard Camp. It was used during World War II as a training camp. In 1942, a Southern Bell representative asked users to make fewer long-distance calls in order to keep the lines free for wartime calls. “To Shoot More — Talk Less” was their motto. In 1947, William Martin, Veterans Service Officer, reported that more than $340,000 in cash would be paid to Putnam’s veterans after Sept. 2. Veterans and their families accounted for 11,682 people or about half of the total population of the county. Thus far in 1947, over $500,000 has come to the county in veterans’ funds, helping not only the veterans but also contributing to the prosperity of the county. In 1950, wounded in Korea while trying to knock out a machine gun nest, Pfc. Charles McCorkel, president of the Palatka High Senior Class of 1949, was one of the first Marine casualties taken to the Naval Hospital in Jacksonville. Loading Comments