Vast contrasts in land value since Brevoort era
A historical note compares early Manhattan land value with today’s price, citing Henry Brevoort’s 40 acres bought 200 years ago for 1,500 and now worth 68 million, a 45,000 fold rise, alongside a survey of 1922 forest grazing permits, immigration figures, and assorted Q and A on history, science, and government data.
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Lower Manhattan Island
Henry Brevoort
Forest Service
National Forests
United States
Cuba
Tariff Commission
White House
George Washington
John Adams
Woodrow Wilson
Staunton
Virginia
Mllnois
Tennessee
Nugust & Ten
Tibet
Baltimore
Maryland
Key West
Florida
Eastport
Maine
Colon
Panama
Lincoln Memorial
Henry Bacon
Grant
National ‘Forests
Estry Service
Secretary of Agriculture
San Domingo
Yucatan
France
England
Social Roundup From Grand Town January Fourth
Community notices detail visits and gatherings in Terre Haute and nearby towns. Names include Arby Schlosser Fred Meehling Gertrude Long Stacy Lee June and others as relatives and friends share holidays and theatre outings. An unrelated note mentions caution about ladder safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arby Schlosser
Louie Foley
Fred Meehling
Gertrude Long
Grand Theatre
Terre Haute
Stacy Lee
June
Hurley Wright
Jake Maurer
George Hall
Reno Schlosser
John
Harold
Joe Lee
Clarence Davis
Joe Geheb
Elnora
John Renner
Joe Liffick
Virginia Lee
Flora Gebel
Hank Olm
Harry Lee
Joe Sims
Louise
Eva
Lée
Mra
Mary Beber
Year in Agriculture 1923 Outlook for 1924
The 1923 farming year brought uneven results with price gains offset by production difficulties. Regions diverged from the northeast to the Cotton Belt, Corn Belt, Wheat Belt, and Pacific coast, while the broader postwar readjustment pressured farm equipment, debt, and labor. The 1924 outlook anticipates mixed shifts in production and steady domestic demand.
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East
Mississippi
Texas
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Coast
United States
Finis
Whené
Lompet
Christmas Guests and Local Movements In York Area
Christmas visits fill the York community as families from Paris Terre Haute West Union and Robinson greet relatives. movers include John Barker and wife in Terre Haute, Manford Osborne relocating, and Mrs. Kate Abbot visiting Mollie Myera. A car collision injured Mrs. Lyman Pritchard. a Wirth holiday gathering followed a late lafty pulling event.
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Fred Medécke
Roy Owens
Shelburn
Jack Daugherty
John Barker
St. Louis
al -Mateson
Henry
Mateson
Paris
Ed Layton
Lozie Clark
Terre
Haute
Homer Orcutt
Edith Prevo
West Union
Nellie
Martha Daugherty
Guy Hand
Quaker Lane
Fannie Murphy
Kate Abbot
Melrose
Mollie Myera
Manford Osborne
Myles Murphy
Ee Reno Baker
Fairbanks
James. Baber
Mildred Starks
Terre. Haute
Urban Dixon
Virgil Dennon
John. Warners
Terre Hautes
Lewis Whitman
Manford-Osborne
Terre Haute
Arline
Smith
Roy Bishop
Clayton
Martha Sawyer
West’ Union
J. le ' Roscoe “Wetherell
John, Ketchum
Grover Isaac Tost
Haline Murphy
Hutwonville
Maryurphy
Jobin
Crouch
South Bend
Wis
Éuia
Ogle
Fern Kisner
Palestine
Molaney Bar
Claude - Davis
Albertr Bonestede
Andy Pinkston
Wesley’ Riley
Ray Whitman
Grover Tsarac
Terre’ Mauie
Chas
Jackson
Mt. Carmel
Lyman Pritchard
Robinson “Hospital
Also Mentioned on This Page
Secretary of Labor
James Monroue
Hampton Institute
Agricultural Department
Himalayas
Thomas A Edison
Livat
Mies
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
U. S
A B. Genung
York
Russel Jackson
Hymera' Ind
Nathan Sherrell
John Fry
Robinson
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