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STANDARD AT $2,014 MAKES ITS HEAD A BILLIONAIRE; John D. Rockefeller's Quarter Interest Alone Is Worth $500,000,000. DIVISION MULTIPLIED IT BY 3 Price Per Share the Day the Supreme Court Dissolved the Parent Company Was $675. SHARES BOOM ON CURB Yesterday's Advances Follow the News of an Increase of 10 Cents a Barrel in Crude Petroleum. STANDARD'S HEAD IS A BILLIONAIRE
The boom in Standard Oil stocks on the Curb and "over the counter" yesterday carried prices so far forward that stock of the Standard of New Jersey as it existed before the dissolution, was worth more than $2,000 a share. The highest price for the stock before the Supreme Court decree was put into effect five years ago, was $750.
