DOLLAR ROMANCE
NEWSBOYS TO MILLIONAIRES HUGE RAILWAY DEAL New York,, Aug. 8. An, amazing romance of v -business was revealed when the consolidation o' the Nickle Plate, Chesapeake, and Pom Marquette railways was completed by two brothers van Sweringen, who were formerly newsboys in Cleveland. They will have a. total mileage of 15,090, the fourth largest system in the Eastern States. Thirty years ago the brothers invested their savings from newspapers selling in 2000 acres of real estate, in Cleveland. Finally they built a street oar line to serve their subdivision, and by 1010, they were both wealthy. Today, while still under 45, they rank with the •Harrimans and Goulds as railway millionaires,
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Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 317, 22 August 1924, Page 8
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