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From Adams County Farm to Decline and Rebirth
The 200 acre Adcock farm near Fulton traces a century of rise and ruin from government to private hands, then back to government control. Once valued upward of 15 000 dollars, it declined after poor soil and erosion, was sold for 1260 dollars in 1939, and now rents for grazing at two dollars an acre as soil conservation efforts continue. Mae Murray faces bankruptcy, with liabilities at 5446.95 and assets at 1000, launching a Brookly n lecture series on glamour after a dramatic financial fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton
Adcock Place
W. M. Adcock
Adcock
John C. Hansen
Hansen
John C. Douglas
Douglas
Oeter
Aaa
Grove Selby
J. C. Smith
Midwest
Mae
Brooklyn
Noel Coward
Rudolph Valentino
Europe
Robert Z. Leonard