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Mrs. Langtry's Wealth

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
September
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tlmt the J.ily is wealthy everybody knous. Tbat Mis. Langtry is as wealthy as slic is vitv few know. 'l'lus charming lady isa müliouuircKs. George Keogh, lnr Inte manager, saya tbat il' she were to cash in to morrow, on her real estáte alone, shejwould realize something in the ii.ichliiliool f ij!HK.itMi, ninl tllls she owcs altogethor to lier own shrewdness ia Bpeculatlng. Slie has do ¦teerers, no adnsers. ben she plays in ii towa that she sces is a thriviug town slie invests in nal estáte. It doublé lts ralue in a few vcais and lic liolds OD lo il Thai is theBccrel of lier accumulation of wcaltb. During her visit io Snit Lake City ia 1887 die purcluwed ten acre of land.payinR $8,000 for it. WUen uhe returned in isss Bhe refused $8,000, i pretty gooa rise. In the latteryeiir she hougbl somothiuir like 40,000 acres of land in California, paying $80,000 for tbc lot Bhe bas since decUned an offer of 200, (X)i) for the properly. Since her purchase a railroad has been run tbrough the beartof her purchase, liciuc the increase i ralue. In iss:; .vhe fancied a plot of laad in Omaha and offered $8,000 for it. The owner ¦wanted $5,000. 1 lere was au opportuuity inissed, for ou her return in 1887 sho was told it had just heen sold for $56,000. On her recent visit to Sak I.ake City all the real estáte ngents combined to do her honor by invitlng her to visit - and furntehed a carriagefor the purpo(! - the desirable investmenta in the vicinity. Mis. Langtry owns a number of tirst morlgageain New York - aome sixtyor seveuty. Bhe b graat on flrst moctgaei. She also owns real estáte ia Brooklyn, arquired alter her usual rustom while she Avns [ilayiuir at the Urooklyn Theater, and when the opportunity for purchate pregented. hen she playa in a town and makes big mooey she is in the lmbit of takin a carriage, going over the territory, and if her cunoing eye lights on a deslrablc property she Btraigbtway gobblea ii up. she devotes coDsidcrable timo to Fred Qebhard, but sho has an eyo to business all the sanie. If ilrs. Potter can only do as well in the same time sho -will be one of' the luoky ones.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News