Vol 2, No 5

Articles in this issue

• A SONG OF PRUNES. (opens in a new tab)

  A comic poem by Nixon Waterman extolling the virtues of the fat, juicy prune over the shrivelled boarding-house variety.
• BUT MA, SHE KNOWS. (opens in a new tab)

  A poem reprinted from the Detroit Journal in which a boy contrasts his fault-finding father with his understanding mother.
• THE HINDU SCEPTIC. (opens in a new tab)

  A poem voicing a sad-eyed Hindu king's doubts about God, divine justice and the soul.
• ANSWERS. (opens in a new tab)

  The magazine's question-and-answer feature, explaining the prayer of Ajax, the Iron Crown, the words 'panic' and 'whig' and an ethnic slur for Italians, the song 'Dixie', miracle plays and many other historical and word-origin queries.
• OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT. (opens in a new tab)

  The League of American Wheelmen's official section listing the League's objects, officers (President Geo. L. Cooke, Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett and others), standing committees, dues, membership rules and supplies.
• LEAGUE DAY. (opens in a new tab)

  President Geo. L. Cooke's report on the 1904 League Day, noting the rainy Rhode Island shore dinner that drew nearly twice last year's attendance, a quarter of them ladies.
• RHODE ISLAND DIVISION. (opens in a new tab)

  Report of the Rhode Island Division's League Day meeting on June 29, featuring a good-roads address by seventy-year-old rider James Ward of Pascoag and the election of officers headed by Chief Consul James G. Peck of East Providence.