Special Edition of The Stuart News, published on Thursday October 18, 1956 (Volume 20, Number 14). The newspaper gives the history of and information about the Historical Society of Martin County's House of Refuge Museum.
Robert Boyne McPherson stands next his Dodge coup parked on a narrow mountain pass during a road trip. Plate on the grille of the car reads "Stuart on the St. Lucie."
Published in the Stuart News (14 Oct 1954) with the caption "Locally-Devised Rake Injects Steam In The Ground. Flower grower C. M. Luce (right) and his foreman, Kenneth Hampton, inspect the Luce Flower Farm's rake-like device that is employed to steam-heat the soil to kill off weeds and insect pests of the flowers. The mechanism at right pulls the rake. In center rear is the stationary boiler that generates the steam."