THE RISE OF ROUTE 19 or Renfro Gets a Regular Detective Badge

“Old Grief” has now been made a respectable route under Renfro Horn’s careful carrier service, and the Globe has the largest number of subscribers in that section of the city, so to test Renfro Horn’s fighting spirit, Bruce, the circulation manager, offers Renfro Route 19, one of the bad routes along the river front, where the house boats are moored, and a better route in a better part of the city.

But Renfro Horn, being in quest of success and excitement takes Route 19 and thus begins an interesting series of adventures for this boy carrier, who is the peer of the city’s best detectives. It ends with the Mayor of the city pinning on his coat lapel a regular detective badge, because Renfro has found the stolen finger prints.