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| Baggage at Florida East Coast Railway Depot 1921 Florida State Archives |
Newspapers played a big part in promoting Florida during the boom days of the early 1920s. The Miami Metropolis was no exception. In 1921 stories about building and farming splashed across its pages:
- Few realize the extent of Great Reclamation Project at Back Door of Miami
- Vast Area in Everglades Now Being Farmed
- Miami Leads Entire State in Building
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| Miami 1921 Florida State Archives |
Among the stories of the day was a summary of Florida superlatives. Time, no doubt, has altered Florida’s first place status in some. Many of these firsts were in agriculture. Others became realties a few decades later and remain so today.
Florida has first place:
In diversity of food products
In value per acre of farm products
In untilled area that is tillable
In number of growing days
In phosphate mining
In fishing industries
In Fuller’s earth output
In variety of trees
In area of standing timber
In area of standing timber
In length of coastline
In variety of birds
In winter-grown truck products
In winter-grown truck products
In coconuts
In camphor
In camphor
In variety of hay crops
In sisal
In sisal
Florida is:
The orchardist’s lotus-land
The trucker’s opportunity
The farmer's three chances a year
The farmer's three chances a year
The fisherman’s Galilee
The lumberman’s last stand
The beeman's land of milk and honey
The dairyman’s flowing bowl
The filmmaker’s dream
The home seeker’s goal
The citizen’s cornucopia
The manufacturer's future
What's Florida first in today?
Freedom
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| Boating from Belle Glade to Fort Lauderdale 1921 Florida State Archives |
Source:
Miami Daily Metropolis, Oct, 25, 1921
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