Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1913 — STRAUS, OIL MAN’S NEIGHBOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STRAUS, OIL MAN’S NEIGHBOR

Former American Ambassador to Turkey Buys a Farm Near Tart rytown, N. Y. Tarrytown, N. Y. —Oscar' S. Straus, former ambassador to Turkey and recently the progressive candidate for governor of New York state, is to establish himself here as a close neigh-

bor to Johh D. Rockefeller. He has bought the Horton farm, between here and Pleasantville, which is one of the oldest estates in this section. It consists of about eighty acres, for which Mr. Straus is said to have paid $55,000. Mr. Straus said he was going to build a simple summer home.

Oscar S. Straus.