- 1 bank...2 dairy's...2 saloons...1 nursery...7
hotels...2 theaters...a public park...a G. A. R. call...3 bakeries...1
ice factory...8 churches...2 shoe shops...2 newspapers...
- 2 wood yards...2 curio stores...1 music house...1 bicycle
shop...3 drug stores...3 restaurants...2 livery stables...1 barrell
factory...3 barber shops...a sewerage system...
- 10 grocery stores...2 jewlery stores...2 cigar
factories...6 dry good stores...2 hardware stores...2 furniture
stores...only one undertaker...3 meat markets...1 cigar box factory...
- 2 bathing pavillions...3 millinery stores...one norated
water still...a kindergarten school...a paid fire department...1
photograph gallery...1 fish and oyester co...
- 3 fruit packing houses...3 wholesale fish houses...a score
of boarding houses...1 artificial stone company...2 plumbing
establisments...8 miles of electric railways...
- 2 blacksmiths and wagon shops...an electric light and power
plant...2 pinning mills and novelty works...all the benevolent and
fraternal orders...
- all public water works systems owned by the city...one of
the finestt auditorium buildings in the south...three boot and shoe and
gentlemen furnishing stores...
- a boat building yard and 2 dry docks for small boats...the
finest and most equitable climate in the united states...the best
fishing, bathing and hunting waters in the world...
- an annual Chnutauqun (the most succesful in the
south)...daily trains and steamboats to and from all sections of the
country...
- a telephone system with main offices of the west coast
telephone co...vitrified brick paved streets and many miles of paved
asphalt and cement sidewalks...
- an immense capital fair building in which is held annually
a free
mid-winter fair for thirty days exhibiting all water soil and handiwork
of Pinellas penninsula...
- a section immune to damaging colds and developing more
rapidly than any
other in Florida...an offering to the home teacher and the investor
opportunities unequaled in the south...
- a surrounding country transversed by rock roads and
electric railway
filled with the finest orange groves and other fruits in Floridda...
- the best schools of Florida, graded and high school, normal
and industrial departments, manual training, physical cultural,
domestic science, cadet company, music department and library with
twenty-one instructors...
Source: St.
Petersburg Times 1905
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