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Ocean City’s Auditorium, or Camp Meeting Grounds.

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(Continued from page 1) I tone and freedom from vice of every L Ocean City is truly an ideal resort. Jgh speed electric cars run every half hour I Ocean City’s Boardwalk through the beaupine woodlands of Atlantic County, to the dwalk in Atlantic City. The trip will be * in forty-five minutes. A ferry plys bep Ocean City and Longport during the mer months, and from Longport fast trolrvice may be had at a ten cent fare into jbtic City. •direct automobile road connects Ocean City l Atlantic City, while a boulevard at 34th |et leads to the Main Seashore road connectich of the resorts of the County. With mpletion of the Ocean City to Sea Isle [ road and bridges another outlet to the pern resorts will be provided by roads and b across the beautiful waters of Corson’s l which form the southern boundary of the 1 of Ocean City. Marvelous Rise In Realty Values. |>e full truth of the marvelous increase in i City Lind values can hardly be grasped [ by those who are most familiar with the ‘ict, and neither do we seem to grasp the ^ht that wonderful as were the increases ;> the early days of the resort, the increases iny localities have been greater since then

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A street in Ocean City, typical oi all the st'eets that resort. Note the width of the highway, and ‘.he handsome houses that line it un both sides. Most of these houses are the summer residences of Philadelphians, who make up the bulk of the population of America’s Greatest Cottage Resort.

antf are sure to be still greater during the next five or ten years. An increase of seventy thousand dollars on one lot in a few years may seem like a fairy tale, but it is a fact that can be proven beyond a doubt, the accretions from the sea added to the great increase in the value of the original lot, causing a lot at Eighth and Ocean avenue, which was offered a few years ago for thirty thousand dollars, to be held at one hundred thousand dollars today. And while that case makes what might seem to be “a stupendous object lesson,” more than one other case can be cited, and cases of similar comparative increases abound all over the island. For instance this one really seems better: Not much more than fifteen years ago two ladies purchased from the Ocean City Association a plot of ground—one hundred and fifty foot front—for which they paid a little over three thousand dollars. That particular plot, with accretions, could not be bought today for ninety thousand dollars. A plot of ground near Eighth and Ocean avenue was bought in “the early days” for five hundred dollars. The purchaser put buildings upon the ground and received an excellent revenue from the investment and afterwards, moving the houses to another section of the city, he sold the ground for ten thousand dollars, and it is worth much more today. In those “early day stories” we are told of the opportunity lost by a man (still living) to secure a fortune for six hundred dollars. The party referred to was looking for a bath house site, and was offered one by the Hayday

(TER OF OCEAN CITY Maddock’s Pharmacy hth Street and Asbury Avenue Perfection Soda, Sundaes, Soft Drinks Quick Service Agent for Samoset and Whitman’s Candies dl Your Drug Store Want* Supplied Satisfaction Guaranteed Public Bell Telephone Booths

HOTEL BISCAYNE Ocean Avenue and Moorlyn Terrace

OPEN FOR THE SEASON 1918

Mrs. Jane K. Morrison Formerly of The Idlewild

FOGG MOTOR COMPANY The Garage that is different Not indifferent Ford Parts and Service 844 Asbury Avenue jOcean City, N. J. Call Bell Telephone No. 16

For any information of

Ocean City Property For Sale or Rent Inquire of Massey & Edwards Eighth Street and Central Avenue, Ocean City, N. J. Oldest Established Real Estate Office in the Resort Several Good Bargains in Fine Lots on Water Front, Near Ocean City Yacht Club, For Only $675 739 Asbury Ave. OCEAN CITY, N. J.

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THE WEAVER STORE Ocean City’s Ladies’ Store Dry Goods and .Notions for Ladies LToggery for Ladies, and Misses Hosiery for Ladies’, Misses and Children Royal Worcester, R. & G. and P. N. Corsets Ladies and Misses’ Underwear Good Good, Good Service bqnsre Deal 807 Asbury Avenue Ocean City

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For Sale or Rent All the Desirable Properties in Ocean City Are Listed at the Real Estate Office of Clayton Haines Brick REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Eighth Street OCEAN CITY, N. J. Opposite Post Office m... ....-i .-.UsM

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