Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 5, No 9
Articles in this issue
- p. 2
An account of the Puritan origins of Thanksgiving in Massachusetts, tracing how a harvest celebration became a national tradition.
- p. 3
The charming story of how Robert Louis Stevenson legally transferred his own birthday to a young girl named Annie Ide who was born on Christmas Day.
- p. 4
An anecdote attributed to abolitionist Sojourner Truth, who reportedly said that if heaven forbade smoking she would rather not go.
- p. 5
A collection of witty variations on a kissing poem about Jack and Rose, contributed by different newspapers across the country.