Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 2, No 5

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PublicationBassett's Scrap Book
Volume2
Issue5
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Articles in this issue

  • A SONG OF PRUNES.
    A comic poem by Nixon Waterman extolling the virtues of the fat, juicy prune over the shrivelled boarding-house variety.
  • BUT MA, SHE KNOWS.
    A poem reprinted from the Detroit Journal in which a boy contrasts his fault-finding father with his understanding mother.
  • THE HINDU SCEPTIC.
    A poem voicing a sad-eyed Hindu king's doubts about God, divine justice and the soul.
  • ANSWERS.
    The magazine's question-and-answer feature, explaining the prayer of Ajax, the Iron Crown, the words 'panic', 'dago' and 'whig', the song 'Dixie', miracle plays and many other historical and word-origin queries.
  • OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT.
    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.
    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.
    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.