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Title: The Forfar Directory and Yearbook 1909
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Publisher: W. Shepherd, Castle St, Forfar
Contributing Library: Angus Council
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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edfor breaking the Premiers windows in Down-ing Street. Altogether 29 arrests were made,and 27 were committed to gaol. LAND AT JL5,500,Q00 ANACRE. The recent partition of a small estate boiightseventy years ago by Mr. John Jacob Astorfor £4,600 and now yalued at £650,000, drawsattention to the remarkable growth in value ofNew York real estate, which is said to doubleitself every eight years. When we considerthat Manhattan Island, en which the greatpart of New York City stands, was originallybought for sixteen dollars, the prices nowdemanded for portions of it are simply amaz-ing. A good many years ago a. small plotoi 717 square feet was sold at the rate of£3,000,000 an acre ; while for a neighbourmgplot £80 a square foot, or nearly 3J millionpounds an acre, was refused. In Piccadillyland ,has been sold within recent years for£34 3s. 4d. a square foot, or £1,488,300 peracre ; and some of the land in the City aroundLombard Street is still more valuable. .■iiiiiiii iiiniiiiiniimi
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