Miracle City Goes the Pace in Boom Detroit Struggles
Detroit, called the miracle city, races to surpass Cleveland Boston Pittsburgh and Baltimore in the 1920 census as land prices soar. The boom brings high rents and empty housing while factories move away, with reports of 40 to 60 percent higher real estate values than Cleveland and rampant speculation.
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Detroit
Miracle City
Cleveland
Boston
Pittsburgh
Baltimore
United States
Stanley McMichael
Cleveland Real Estate Board
San Francisco
Sacramento
Los Angeles
Winnipeg
Eben Rexford Dies at Sixty Eight in Wisconsin
Eben Eugene Rexford, author of Silver Threads Among the Gold, died in Green Bay Wisconsin last Wednesday after a three week illness from typhoid fever. He lived twenty five years in Shipeton Wisconsin where he served as organist at the Congregational Church. His wife died in 1910. Rexford born July 16 1848 in Johnsburgh New York.
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Eben Eugene Rexford
Green Bay
Wisconsin
Johnsburgh
N. Y
Mr. Rexford
Rebecca
Danks
Charles W. Harris
Wisconsin survey questioned over farm profits balance
A Wisconsin survey shows crops profit while livestock loses money in three of four farm groups. The piece questions rushing to drop livestock and raise crops and asks which two- farm scenario would yield more cash after twenty years. A stockman from Pennsylvania notes livestock keeps adding expenses.
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Pennsylvania
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Real Estate Board
Cincinnati Enquirer
Zaneaville
Kodal Bulletin
Eben Rexford
Harrisburg
Standard Woolen Co
North Second Street
Walnut Street
Harrisburg, PA
Alexander Agar
Itate
Richard
Son
Walter T. Bradley
Ninth and Thompson Streets
Philadelphia
Hoffer
Engle
Hummelstown
George P. Hoffer
Palmyra
Feameery Landis
B. Cassady
Swatara
E. M. Hoffer
Hershey
New York
Hershey Improvement Company
Hershey Trust Company
Hershey, Pennsylvania
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