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Ferris Sez Here's Your
Newsletter for March 1, 2017

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 On This Day In History March 1st

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325 year ago in 1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba were arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachussets.  In all, Massachusetts hanged 26 people for practicing witchcraft. Nineteen women were hanged in 1692 alone in the infamous Salem witch trials, depicted in this image.

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214 years ago on March 1st 1803 Ohio became the 17th state of the Union
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144 years ago on March 1st 1873 E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.  During the late 1860s and early 1870s, Christopher L. Sholes and collaborators invented the first practical typewriter, which was produced by E. Remington & Sons and sold as the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer during 1874-78. The earliest Sholes & Gliddens were mounted on sewing machine stands,  and their carriage returns were operated by foot treadles. Sholes & Glidden machines typed only upper case letters. Approximately 5,000 were sold.

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Now Here's A Little Plant City History

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The photo on the right is of a Remington typewriter that I played with as a young child. It was in my grandmothers store (Wright's Furniture & Hardware) located at 118 S. Collins Street in downtown Plant City. This was across the street from Hagan's Restaurant that is now "Snellsgroves Restaurant" The typewriter was my grandfathers "Ferris Spurgeon Wright" who died in 1936 two years before I was born. The typewriter now sits on a shelf in my home. He had a sign hanging in the store that read
      "We Buy Sell Or Trade Anything From A Needle
      To A Battleship, Except Used Dentures & Coffins"


1st photo a business card of Wright's Furniture & Hardware,
2nd photo my great Uncle Ross Wright & my Father Marcus Waller,
3rd photo my grandfather Ferris Spurgeon Wright original owner of the typewriter.

The photo  below shows Wright's Furniture & Hardware second from the corner on the right. Across the street from Wright's was Plant City Auto Supply run and operated by Royce Wills & his sons Rylon and Jerry. This photo was taken looking N. on S. Collins St. If you were to turn around and look south the other two corners would be G. C. Green Furniture (later to become H & H Furniture) & Badcock Furniture. This area was know as "The Wrong Side Of The Tracks" The area North of the RR Tracks was thought of as the more upscale stores, Hooker's Dept. Store, The Hillsboro Bank, The Fashion Shop,  White's Pharmacy,      
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107 years ago Mar. 1st 1910 118 die when three passenger trains are buried at Steven's Pass in the Cascade Range by the worst snow slide in US history. Two of the locomotives can be seen buried in the snow along with some of the other wreckage of the Wellington Depot after the avalanche of 1910   Read The Full Story Here

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80 years ago in 1937 US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day
Wow $5 dollars a day ! 
That was the year before I was born.


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1962 Kresge Corporation opens the first Kmart store in Garden City, Michigan
1970 End of US commercial whale hunting
1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1
1977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for its credit cards 
1977 US extends territorial waters to 200 miles

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1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile
DETROIT — General Motors said Tuesday that its Pontiac division will stop making the plastic-bodied Fiero sports car model at the end of the 1988 model year and shut the plant, idling 1,109 workers. GM cited slow sales of the car for its decision to close the Pontiac, Mich., factory.       (Read The Full Story Here)

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Some Produce Prices From Last Week

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Strawberry prices have hit the bottom
in the last 10 days., some are as low as
$7.00 most were $8. to a high of $9.00 a flat. 

We have seen several fields that the
farmers have already plowed under.
     


Pineapples: $12 - $13
Plantains: $18.00
Cabbage: $8.00 (12 heads)
Onions: $22. to $25 a 30 count box
Tomatoes: $7 to $12
 

The price of produce on this page does not necessarily mean that is the going price on the entire market. We stop randomly at different vendors and ask the price at that given time. The price in the early hours could be higher, and in the evening hours when they are leaving it could be lower. The prices shown here should however give you an idea of what you could expect to pay. The price you will pay for produce at the Plant City Farm & Flea Mkt. will almost always be lower than the price that is posted at any major produces exchange terminal.
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Meet Antonio Jenkins, our most dependable
parking lot attendant.
     

Antonio Jenkins, COMING BACK WITH THE HELP OF MANY FRIENDS
Most anywhere you go at most anytime, you are bound to run into a character or two. The Plant City Flea Market is no different. It has its share, but it also has some special people. One of those special people is Antonio Jenkins, a young man who is on the long way back from a serious car accident that occurred on I-4 in 2014. That accident left Antonio paralyzed from the chest down.

He’s a valued member of the parking crew at the Plant City Flea Market each Wednesday and the rest of the week he works at I-4 Power Equipment. The market is owned and operated by Ferris Waller, while I-4 Power is his son’s business. Antonio met Mark Waller and his wife, Charlotte, nearly a decade ago while they were all attending the Plant City Church of God. Mark and Charlotte took Antonio under their wing to the extent that he now refers to Mark and Charlotte as his parents and they to him as their son. Jenkins and his wife Amy, a teacher at Lakeland Elementary reside on the same property as the Waller’s and they have helped bring stability to Antonio’s life while he has given back to them through their relationship and his efforts at the market and power equipment business. Currently Antonio is involved in a special research project at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. “Most people have heard of stem cell therapy, well I am undergoing swan cell therapy,” said Jenkins. “In swan cell therapy my own cells are being grown externally and then put back into my body.” It is anticipated that the program will take 2 – 5 years to help Antonio who has internal feeling, but none externally from the chest down. Not one to seek pity, Antonio is “all about giving back and helping others any way I can.” He is also thankful for the opportunities and support that have been given to him and his wife by the Waller’s. If you come to the market and park your car, say hello to Antonio, he’s the young man in the wheel chair at gate #3 with the smile on his face. If you need a hand, he’ll do what he can to help you out. He’s definitely one of the special people at the Plant City Flea Market.





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For customers, To Park Free in the
"Preferred $1 or $2 lot" this Wed 03-01-2017

The password is "Typewriter"
Print this or show on your mobile device.

As always Free Parking without coupon is across the street.



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