GOLDEN DREAMER.
WOMAN WHO MADE A MILLION IN WHEAT. CHICAGO. .January 30. Mrs Scott Durand is a society woman who several years ago established a purebred stock farm to provide milk for orphan children. When the price sympathy with the advances in wheat, Mrs Durand decided that "the only way to keep even was to play the market. “ We must hold our end up," she docl a red to a broker, who bought heavily on her account. She had had a dream that wheat would go to 2dol o 0 cent', and she speculated heavily enough to win one and a half million dollars dur ing the last six weeks. Mrs Durand is regarded as the biggest winner in the recent wild wheat, market, which has stirred such old operat-ors Fatten (who “cornered" the market about eighteen years ago) and Silver to cover. Prices in Chicago and in Winnipeg recovered part of their early loss today. hut the .tendency was decidedly many published warnings to look out for squalls.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17461, 12 February 1925, Page 6
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