Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 5, No 8

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PublicationBassett's Scrap Book
Volume5
Issue8
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Articles in this issue

  • THE BICYCLE MONTH.
    October editorial leader declaring this "very much a bicycle number," describing the fad of "automobile poker" played by reading passing autos' license numbers and urging readers to get out on the road.
  • A WHEEL ABOUT THE HUB.
    Lengthy feature tracing the run's origin to a Sept. 11, 1879 "Two Days' Out and Home Run" arranged by Charles E. Pratt of the Boston Bicycle Club for an illustrated Scribner's Magazine article, with full rosters of participants, route details around Boston, and an account of the 1907 run (19 on bicycles, 28 in automobiles) staying at the Tudor Farm Club in Sharon.
  • TENNIS.
    A light verse playing on tennis scoring terms ("My 'vantage," "Fault," "Love—game") to depict a flirtation between a maid and an outmatched man.
  • LOVE O' SEA.
    A poem by Elsie Casseigne King celebrating the thrill of sailing—creaking spars, gleaming sails and crashing waves—as surpassing all other loves.
  • YOU MAY TELL.
    A puzzle and quiz feature posing questions on literary pseudonyms (Barry Cornwall, Christopher North, Currer Bell, etc.) and a locomotive-wheel arithmetic problem, with answers to the September questions.
  • NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
    Report of the L.A.W. National Assembly's annual meeting in Boston on Sept. 12, presided over by President Wm. B. Everett, with 25 delegates, a membership of 1632, a slate of officers nominated (President Marriott C. Morris of Philadelphia), and rejection of a proposal to replace the Assembly with mass meetings.