Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 2, No 7
Articles in this issue
- The opening seasonal leader of the September 1904 issue, musing on autumn as the harvest month and the threshold of winter before drifting into assorted notes and quips.
- An essay tracing the history of the epigram and quoting witty specimens credited to Tom Moore, Pope, Goldsmith, Coleridge, Tom Hood, Campbell, Nixon Waterman and others.
- An essay on the year 1 A.D. as a near-blank in history, the peace under Augustus, and how the Christian scholar Dionysius Exiguus later devised dating from the birth of Jesus.
- A question-and-answer column on topics including the word "appendicitis," the Court of St. James, the US-Canada boundary, the Union Jack, the origin of "government of the people," and the harvest moon.
- The L.A.W. official department listing the association's objects and its officers — President Geo. L. Cooke, Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett, foreign consul Joseph Pennell — plus standing committees, dues and membership rules.
- A signed touring essay crediting the League of American Wheelmen (and Isaac B. Potter) for the good macadam roads now linking Fall River, New Bedford, Wareham and the Cape Cod resorts.
- President George L. Cooke's column urging L.A.W. automobilists to organize an Automobile Section, noting Robert B. Roosevelt took membership No. 1 and ex-President Obermayer has joined.