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NOON -EDITION NOON EDITION OAK PARK ELEVATED , GUNMAN DRAWS YEAR MUST GET OFF THE TERM IN HOUSE OF GROUND OR QUIT CORRECTION THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper, N. D. Cochran, -jSBE Te, Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. "ffSglgg .Automatic 51-422. 500 South Peoria St. 398 By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL. 3, NO. 151 Chicago, Thursday, March 26, 1914 ONE CENT WOMAN TILLS LAND WORTH FORTUNE AN ACRE RIGHT ON BROADWAY The Last Farm In New York City Is the Mpst Valuable Plot of Ground in the World Gives Mrs. Zer renner and Children Fine Living. New York, March 26. Broadway has a real farm. It is near enough' to the center of the city to make the five-acre parcel worth, according to the appraiser's assessment, $278,000, the most valuable piece of farm land in the world! It is located on the very ground where Washington's army made its first stand against the British on Manhattan Island, at the junction of Broadway and Nagel avenue, at the upper end of the island. Broadway surface cars pass the door and 'the subway is easy of access. Mrs. Adolph Ztixrenner, - .born- in.. Brooklyn sixty-nine years ago, moth er of a family of thirteen and widow j of a civil war veteran, runs this farm. Two grown sons and one grandson, typical farmer boys, are on the job, and it is doubtful if they ever ven tured so far away from home as the car that passes their door could transport them. There is no middleman in their business. They do not go to market. There is quite enough business for them in their immediate neighbor hood. The neighboring grocers come to the farm to market every 'morning. They do not keep any