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Show Ford Has Option on McGuffey Ho.rj in Sltf -life: V 10 Mr. and Mrs. Henry V. Blayney, the latter a second cousin of Willi Holmes McGuffey, author of the McGuffey Readers of public school fa disclosed a recent visit of Henry Ford to the old Holmes homestead, . birthplace of McGuffey, in West Finley township, Pennsylvania, dur; which Ford placed an option on the place. The Blayneys own and 11 on the farm. This photograph shows the house in which the author born and which Is now crumbling In ruins. Most of Its timbers rem! intact, and observers say it could be easily reconstructed In its ongL form. t |