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Show - . cs reus HE SAW CNDA Y,. NO YEM YQtIJTUI.. ,, JPF--Q 23, 1925.;. - SUiuff of mm r7-&&Xt- &' i n ER ScM III 1 AMiUb a i 'Ml.i- -- u 'rth -- ill-- 37 a Imtli " "Folly" and "Otlie Sr. If! Big Money Clean- - r Ups i .1 1C V Once" Was the iff III 1 1 . r. ?l r r .ii u n Bunco-- ; v ik ....... Mil IJ I JSN. ill I - - IF tw 'State Which iii the ; -- Steerets ' v , i - T -- i 4 "Gome-G- n I r A ff I U fiia r t Iff 1 Jk. 1 I i ty" it Uu for Easy : j ' , Suckers.r tlap of Florida Show- lug Clewiston, the Model ' lad us trial t'ity, Hhieh ropoisei to "liuiiot" Henry,. a 3. to). IU)1 -' t .. . . ; ; . if. - ... . Pciia " ff ...V j -- j . . i r . . . . . . - . "l ViK - t4A i : ' I'll - , iv-r-- r i i.' . , j ' V v j! If . ... . . li : ' i v i loo- - r. " . - aoi:: u if"' 22?v Kk A X 1'alra Trees Like This Are Selling in Florida for $500 Apiece to Millionaire Who Can't Take Time to Grow Them for Their Eatates. u 9t a "r 't'7u- - l, 'l J"ttoSrtS inenas laugnea at fSl t w film.! to well ck poWsmith, well , ai the Wers." : . vMiss Dionessa Bryan namesake of William Jen- the nings. Bryan and a Evans, lite :t n J "".. Il n Sft'lSSiB to'cdS n- " J ' noridVlwe fared m kno-Broadway Florida- -a spot. on the map' ""$750 0ol Kiel city today Jm-Sf- t growing into a projected ' Edward W. Brownings the ''Cinderella nan . and, its lackers predict, a greater-thasmith looked over the fend booni He bought " whose adoption of Mary Spaa has put him much collect- and som. When tomorrow he finished trying his case he are up they Pittsburgh taking t. . . . nnnta. nnhllr into hnirtrht Misml DTfinnd .i ncnnnA.-.- i nur vJwu ncaei. uiumrauo rare waar ions for two memorial monuments to be erected! 3 iT"ir: ; his" .! was fee 'as soon as the citizens can snatch the time from- euckerest of sucker plunges! . Withlri the lasl two months tie cleared $800,OOQl boom. j, turning over millions in He hasn't seen his property yet; One monument, in the heart of ' Clewiston, : . T :n J. Jj. laiievaat r Trr:it: Tim. iM -i Twenty years, ago K!)8 v,u' oWVuh.l ..iuuim icumiiKS .wuiw-.f. hand, r It will be a tribute not only to the Great ' leg g0uth of Sarasota, where John Commoner's religious leadership, but a recog- - Ringling is reputed to-- have trebled nition of tlio fact that he was one of the first- - his fortune. The owner offered Mr. if ' Americans to realise Florida; The second shores neither would take the land, the i ? of Lake Okeechobee, beside which the sky- - deed rotted and the acreage revert ed to the State for unpaid taxes, scrsipors and factories of Clewiston are rising. be to the memory Henry,-famouIt And this ww'hy: t dollars for his buy. ' One of 0, Hnnry's. most widely wad books, u D; f;ti,ii Petr-r- i ,.,,,5 "The CronU -ooneorn f! Jeff tor' most - ke artists, f confidence man de luxe. Joff knew every trick ; not wealthy. One or nis xorebeara v, .n tha hnn-- hnnt v ,a In Florida dirt In the dayi hit jwti estimation and in the estimation of the masted as gotting hla reaiiors of Un years p.go was to sell the naive ' f.hen Jeff Peters grins over Lke Okeechobee, sucker lot On Lake Okeechobee, Florida. , When the- monument Is f inched, 0. Henry Mr. Mitchell recently received ft. lor $100,000 a th result . .will apize cross miles of land which Jeff Peters darn foolishness of his family. v thus tossed away with a grin, (For Jeff always Eoberf Aitkin,' the sculptor, like gave the ruckcr somqthingl .He teally had the lots befoie he solj them.) But the lots which Mr. Mitchell, is not a rich man. He served OtiEenry is the symbol of the sucker probably groaned .whenever , he mina unbeateMe, today ten, twenty; tnought of the two thousand hl - fttther paid for ft lot-I- nlor-theFlorida. if iftyijaa.. wliiit. Jeff Joff, in brief, .was gypped, not the gypper.: Ilia That was years and yeangot The .fdipes, 6y(tte way. m real life include such Aitkin family paid the taxes with men as Henry lord, Harvey Firestone and other,, the dim notion that here, at least, , , .. was the hucleus f or a shack In th '; Nothing could sum cp better than Clewis- - wilds some day. Eventually they ton's ironic O. Henry statue the story ot all decided to sell the nucleus. v fTJ Florida. For, in the. latest amazing chapter in ' was last Winter. Profit ' ; " the history of the State which has Jain lovely TV:'. V ' I ' .ti ' .a: f .. . $25,000. x of southeastern United Dut. languw at the -. n n : Tvr M i. ords gathered from the Real on Rorlda on that have cashed . Estate Board and other re- - . Wealthy buyers Land, j So iHe Took I Movement to r-rect . I ' . ' - V jf :, :;,.-:.- f. v .. n r.:.ric!t i - ...... nvt v Sanel trmer, the attorney In .IS 17 purchased V same, sources true--.storie- s come which , other ; a Junket Trip Around show the United StatesinTwo .Railroad Cars. . Julsi tiMibuim, preiident of tbe of A.iii'-boutlia lot il il.a ntnTifn V 122,000 and sold it la tui afUrnoon nf tr.n . day for $45,009. Stanley Co.-vrttii- .t l - " oitgoes.vThec6un,jTrlft3!i:arw:tath'a - And case of the Clevcln6Sinsn vi.o rmd ti?Uon a rninute; ' He bourrht in "suck? era" fm- - 111. - rOOO. He sold afc S11.0C0 OH In SH b'Min iVtr lasted just lon-- j enot: vo roika tka "million a ,' minute" story absolutiijh irae. .. .,. Here are seme more rmj roi;-!er!! which MM its KWXf f Ordinary Klsmi tlry about twenty-flv- a nipj hurt bpn .yim ; in at $8,0uu per .frc:t wj et $ J3'!,,;"0 caclL- . '. Ray Weed, a travellnj; man from KcTvbj'yn N. Yn cleared $24,000 hi six weeks on k 6.(4 ' - ta , .- ' - ! x. -i" . " A,-- Jr . ... : , , f,-i- Infltnunt AnH rirf. rii THatnrn nVi f At found the buyer Had .takm another $16,000 ' A .;. AW ht tir9ci-weeka- , - .'.vtsc-rjf- 1il.r vi eele-- : V a, - m,- - pa. cf of $U,0tJ0 he eJoisiied 3(; 000 on rsw acrn' age. Gorgo .T. iUii. f,. . New York, waa n Florida K!s profit was M5.000. . ?fcUfcto.V'?nc idett LaAiiiiioa B wett- to Florida for a vacation. an are-wort- ttrf Wjv of a H thra? tim t irritia! ?. dl.j.. ri, onthe C. OHffin, .: : . days pf9 of Impifv. Lyward ' ' e s-- .vl . Crft, t, - Iqwvcr,- ?CO,000 in transfer,' lhuj W.Uoft . '3ft;p,'.,iriolhr Wiex, Yorti tiree j- s oyr. . f - - potties. a r j Taken at Staruford-in-thCatskilli;, Xe Voik. i t m - Jackie Ott, Yowg Ar, m'Jc Star, and a TJrnm tt iajrl BatWng Girls .hM H lUa1 Estate Syndicate Siit JCbrtlf to Boost . Florii.' the-lan- ofl. " lm . A-.s-y- jn - wnula-- i k - i tth ' Valuea jump' like that.-- 1.E. Burns sold a -Th -piece of Sarasota property- same property was sold last Autumn for 8160,003 and sold again in the Spring for $800,00P. ' ' I'Arr) i, ) lt E4 |
