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Railroad Commission of the State of Florida.
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Governor and Mrs. Sholtz greeted the Tallahassee Flyer, streamlined motor coach of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company. Mrs. Sholtz christened the train on the exhibition run from Jacksonville.
Included in the photograph are Justice Fred Henry Davis on the far left, Governor Sholtz and his wife third and fourth from the left, Justice Rivers Buford and his son Rivers Buford Jr. sixth from the left, Chief Justice James B. Whitfield ninth from the left. The location of the following in the photograph are unknown: W.B. Douglass the chairman of the Railroad Commission and Federal Judge Louie Strum.
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Christening of the Tallahassee Flyer train - Tallahassee, Florida. 1936. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/128518>, accessed 11 June 2026.
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Christening of the Tallahassee Flyer train - Tallahassee, Florida. 1936. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/128518>
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