Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 6, No 1
Articles in this issue
- A sentimental poem recalling the old church hymns of long ago, such as "On Jordan's stormy banks" and "From Greenland's icy mountains."
- A dialect comic poem by Charles Follen Adams praising the old long-handled dipper that hangs by the sink over the bucket of "The Old Oaken Bucket."
- A puzzle feature posing a cable-message timing problem and a "Grand Dinner" guessing game that identifies historical figures by their epithets.
- A poem by Gertrude Rugg Field in which the dreamer, asked by Kadmos to name the greatest word in life, chooses the word "our."
- Lists the League of American Wheelmen officers for 1908-09 (President Marriott C. Morris; Secretary-Treasurer and Editor Abbot Bassett of Boston) and the state delegates appointed to the National Assembly to be held at Boston on September 10, 1908.
- Reports that the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, with Chief Justice Knowlton, ruled that an automobile is not a carriage, setting aside a verdict won by William C. Doherty against the town of Ayer for damage to his auto.
- Notes the organization of the Veteran Wheelmen's Association of Philadelphia on January 21, 1908, with officers including President Thomas Hare, formed to foster old cycling associations through an annual banquet, the first to be held April 7.