USELESS WEALTH
One of the world's richest women has lain bedridden in a New York hospital for 31 years, unable to use more than a fraction of her fortune.. She is Mrs. Ida A. Flagler, whose husband was one o£ the pioneers of the Standard Oil Company. When he died in 189S he left Mrs. Flagler stock in the company worth £200,000. The following year she fell ill, and had to be removed to hospital for special treatment. Since then her annual expenditure has been less than £7001), with the result that the accumulated income and the tremendous increase in the value of Standard Oil securities have raised hee fortune to,
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 28
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111USELESS WEALTH Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 28
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