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...Epsom crowd-over 500,000-was well-pleased by the parade to the post. Orwell walked in an efficient fashion, sleek and dignified, while the other horses pranced and sidled. When the race started, Orwell, still sleek and dignified, was less efficient. He stayed in the bunch behind the leaders while first Cockpen, then Lord Derby's Portofino. then Dastur took the lead. With a furlong and a half to go, Dastur was still ahead with Miracle running second and April the Fifth third. In black & pink, Jockey Fred Lane on the Walls horse and Jockey Wragg, riding Miracle...
...Like the Epsom Derby, the Manchester November Handicap, the Grand National is the subject of world-wide lotteries. This year U. S. newssheets were warned by the postal authorities that they would be prosecuted for advertising lotteries if they published the names of lottery winners in mail editions. Many a paper published the names of winners last week in their city editions but did not brave...
...polite announcement issued from the Post Office Department last summer after public excitement over lottery winnings in the Epsom Derby sweepstakes died away...
...Blue calico dress for Susie Bigfoot; 30 Ib. boiling beef for Hudson's; 4 pr. gumboots size 11 Lucky Strike Mining Co.; dozen phonograph records assorted Joe Slisco; rosebush knocked down deputy marshal; 2 live pigs not exceed 10 Ib.; 2 Ib. epsom salts...
Married. James Irving Bush, Manhattan clubman, onetime husband of Mrs. Mona Strader Williams (present wife of Financier Harrison Williams); and Mrs. Virginia Van Sant Alvord, who recently divorced Clive Alvord of Greenwich, Conn.; at Sanborn Hill, Epsom...