Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 5, No 3
Articles in this issue
- A comic poem playing on homophones (heir/air, chaste/chased, guessed/guest) as a love-lorn suitor courts Louise.
- A running question-and-answer feature covering topics such as sociology, alphabet pangrams, the Foote 'Grand Panjandrum' nonsense piece, kosher meat, superstition, and the history of the turkey.
- Lists the L.A.W. officers including President Wm. B. Everett of Dorchester, Mass., and Secretary-Treasurer and Editor Abbot Bassett of Boston, with the announcement that the National Assembly's annual meeting will be held at League headquarters in Boston on Friday, May 31, 1907.
- Reports the Rovers' Cycle Club's twenty-first annual dinner on April 26 at the B.A.A. clubhouse, Boston, where it voted to abolish dues, and the Essex Bi Club of Newark, N.J. annual banquet on April 13, which elected Colonel W. S. Righter president.
- A long sentimental poem by Abbot Bassett about old-time cyclers reminiscing at reunions and the lasting friendships formed in cycling's early days.
- A short four-line poem on time past, present and future, noted as the only time for action.