Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 4, No 6
Articles in this issue
- A short love poem by John James Piatt about two world-old lovers clasped in a twilight's gleam.
- A dialect poem by Nixon Waterman in which the narrator argues with Sy Slocum that no man ever did anything except here and just now.
- A comic poem about a father left at home while the family vacations, burdened with notes from Kate listing things to find and send.
- A poem (Author Unknown) by a weary speaker asking to be laid to rest in the countryside among roses, daisies and woods.
- A reader question-and-answer column covering topics such as a Shakespeare song, thoroughbred versus standardbred horses, the origin of Sunday worship, household mottoes, Elijah and Elias, Ingersoll's beliefs, English schools, and the movement to put God in the Constitution.
- A day-by-day calendar of historical events occurring in August, from the Battle of the Nile to the birth of Virginia Dare, prefaced by a note on August being named for Augustus Caesar.
- League notes including an invitation to Cape Cod, the deaths of L.A.W. member Robert B. Roosevelt of Sayville, N.Y. and life member Doctor Erwin Fischer of Pittsburg, Pa., and the youngest-member application of Walter H. Jackson presented by F. H. Jackson of Philadelphia.
- Notice of the Rhode Island Division annual meeting for election of officers at the office of Geo. L. Cooke on Aug. 27, 1906, signed by Chief Consul John H. Barrett and Sec.-Treas. Nelson H. Gibbs.