Derby Night Ghost Ride Ends In a Fall
Julie Pendleton reels as Big Blue clears a timber jump and lands in a water trap she prepared. After a night of strange sightings at the Pendleton farm and tension with Britt Fabian, Julie races to vent her anger on the horse. The crash leaves her injured and the mystery of Boundbrook’s rider unresolved as the story continues.
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Julie Pendleton
Britt Fabian
Boundbrook
Pendleton
Julie
Britt
Ira Pendleton
Country Club
Pendleton Farm
Casey Jeffries
Casey
Big Blue
Lysander
Ira Pendelton
Mr. Pendleton
Ira
Claude
Seh
Junior Editors Quiz on Eggs and Chickens
A reader quiz explains egg color caused by pigments added before laying. It notes origins of chickens from India, Columbus trips, and that most Mediterranean chickens lay white eggs. The feature mentions brown and spotted eggs, calcium carbonate shells, and says hens lay over 50 eggs yearly. Eugene Crawford of Linthicum Md wins $10. send questions to Junior Editors by postcard.
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India
New World
Eugene Crawford
Linthicum
Ohio State economists note shift in food spending
Columbus report cites 1888 figures showing wage earners spent at least half their income on food. Today average per capita food spending accounts for about one fifth of disposable income.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio State University
Hoatzin Birds Use Claws on Wings for Grasping
The hoatzin, a tropical South American bird, has young with two wing claws on each wing used as hands to climb branches. Adults are long tailed and cresting, living along streams in Brazil and surrounding countries, feeding in small bands and nesting in trees.
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South America
Brazil
Guianas
Venezuela
Columbia
Ecuador
Peru
Bolivia
Secret of success and a speeding fine
A playful parental scene shows Dorothy racing around and being fined for speeding while admonitions from a Sphinx window calendar ice hammer and glue echo a moral. A note recalls Lerici poster protests after a Lerici wives unfaithful article. Reardon notes a girl with a singular voice Fronzo replies with a pun about plurality.
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Dorothy
Little One
la Spezia
Italy
Lerici
Parable of Five Brothers Shows Human Indolence
A Georgian recalls a tale where two former friends discuss their families. John becomes a Texas doctor, Dick runs a country newspaper, William preaches while ripping rails, and the speaker supports them all. The tale ends with a warning that ease and despair shape people, not duty.
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Mr. Jeffries
Claude Bar
Yellow Cab Co
Cook’s
North
Alabama
Tennessee
East Moulton, Decatur
North Alabama
Termite Co
Junius
Reardon
Fronzo
John
Texas
William
Wil
Liam
Ryan Degraffenried
Ryan
Pd. Pol
Tennessee Harris
Tuscaloosa
Crm
Stearns and Foster Mattress Or
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