Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 4, No 4

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PublicationBassett's Scrap Book
Volume4
Issue4
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Articles in this issue

  • THE LITTLE DOG.
    Opening comic poem about a little dog that barks at the moon and believes it scared the moon away when it sets below the hill.
  • THE GLORIOUS FOURTH OF JULY.
    An essay disputing Prof. J. Franklin Jameson of the University of Chicago, who claimed America celebrates Independence Day on the wrong date, with a day-by-day chronology of the steps leading to the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
  • DID YOU KNOW THAT
    A question-and-answer feature covering the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, a Longfellow verse written for Edith Bronson, and other miscellaneous queries.
  • NOT THE BEST ENGLISH.
    A collection of grammatically faulty excerpts quoted from publications such as Harper's Weekly and the American Inventor, inviting readers to spot the errors.
  • JUNE IN HISTORY.
    A day-by-day almanac of historical events occurring in June, including the National flag being adopted in 1777 and Murphy riding a mile on a bicycle behind a locomotive in 1.05 in 1899.
  • SCRAPS CHOPPED OFF BY ESSTEE.
    A column of L.A.W. notes announcing the National Assembly's adjourned meeting at Boston headquarters on June 16, 1906, and reporting that A. A. Adee, Second Assistant Secretary of State, has left Washington for a two months' bicycle tour of Central France and Germany.