Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 5, No 9
Articles in this issue
- Opening poem by Alfred Bern professing a nature-based faith and goodwill toward all mankind regardless of creed or color.
- A comic verse exchange in which several newspapers (the Philadelphia Press, Houston Post, The Commoner, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and others) trade rhyming retorts over a stolen kiss between Jack and Rose.
- A light autumn poem in which Myrtilla, walking in the woods with Colin, finds a lovely leaf and tucks it under her belt to press it.
- A question-and-answer feature explaining the story of Mahomet and the mountain, the rules of legal tender for U.S. silver and minor coins, and comparing the sizes of the Lusitania and the Great Eastern.
- A puzzle column posing a word-riddle and an auto-versus-pedestrian travel problem, and giving answers to the October questions on pseudonyms.
- An obituary recording the sudden death on Oct. 30, 1907 of William B. Everett of Dorchester, Mass., president and a founder of the League of American Wheelmen, alongside the L.A.W. list of officers for 1907-08 including secretary-treasurer and editor Abbot Bassett.