Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 2, No 2
Articles in this issue
- A poem by Nixon Waterman urging readers to act on their good intentions in the present rather than deferring charity and kindness to the future.
- A comic poem about three rival tailors named Jones, Robinson and Brown, each outdoing the other with a boastful advertising sign.
- The magazine's question-and-answer department, replying to readers on topics including the burning of the temple of Diana at Ephesus, King Edward VII's family name (Wettin), the term 'Commonwealth', and the definition of a billion.
- A dialect comic poem by S. W. Gillilan about railroad section boss Finnigin learning to write brief wreck reports to superintendent Flannigan.
- The L.A.W. official section listing the association's objects, dues, supplies and officers, including President Geo. L. Cooke, Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett and foreign consul Joseph Pennell of London.
- An address by newly elected L.A.W. president Geo. L. Cooke urging members to build up the League's membership through personal effort, dated April 2, 1904.
- Editor Abbot Bassett's notes apologising for a printers'-strike delay, reporting increased March 1904 applications and renewals, and promoting the Massachusetts Division spring banquet at the Revere House and the Reservoir run near Boston.