Orlando is the seventh city of Florida and the largest inland city in the State. It is the county seat of Orange County and located in the very heart of Florida's brick highway system, the heart of the citrus belt, and the heart of the lake region of central Florida.
postmarked January 18, 1956
Hotel Lucerne Box 1793
Wednesday. Jan. 18.
You are not sick are you? I hope not- but I've missed hearing from you.
Guests are arriving in full numbers now tho it is not too warm here. What is the news in Beverly? Mildred Horne writes that she plans to come to Florida later this spring.
Mabel? Hicks
Mrs. Robert O. Small
70 Dane St.
Beverly, Mass
Ms. Hicks is a doomsayer! Great numbers of snowbirds! Run!
A closer and later view of the Hotel Lucerne, which was fairly large for the burgeoning city of Orlando.
Beverly, Massachusetts is an historic resort and manufacturing town of about 40,000 people today. It is one of two cities that claim to be the birthplace of the U.S. Navy. The tidy white house at 70 Dane St is still there, just blocks from Mackerel Cove. Robert O. Small, an 1896 graduate of Bowdoin University, and served as Deputy Commissioner of the Massachusetts Board of Education, as well as the Beverly Library Trustees Board.
So it's weird that there aren't property records in Essex County, or a mention of his wife. Or Mabel Hicks.
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