Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 7, No 10
Articles in this issue
- A dialect poem in a boy's voice declaring that, much as he enjoys the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Sunday school, Christmas with its tree, skates and sled beats them all.
- The editorial leader for the December 1909 Christmas number, mixing seasonal sayings with L.A.W. notes: members are being given new low numbers, the annual election passed quietly, and the League enters a new decade (it began the last with 50,378 members under President Thomas J. Keenan).
- The issue's Christmas story, in which a tramp poses as a child's father playing burglars, carries little Muriel to the cellar with a bar of chocolate as her share of the swag, and robs the house before her real father reports the strange burglary to the police.
- A roster of League of American Wheelmen members who joined in 1894 and remain in good standing, listed by membership number, name and town from B. F. Underhill of Boston onward.
- The Scrutineers' report of the ballot for L.A.W. national officers, electing Walter M. Meserole President, Fred Atwater first Vice-President, Quincy Kilby second Vice-President, Abbott Bassett Secretary-Treasurer and Geo. W. Nash Auditor.
- Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett sets out the number of National Assembly representatives apportioned to each state from the Dec. 1, 1909 membership (63 in all, with New York 14, Massachusetts 11 and Pennsylvania 10) and the nomination and March election rules.
- A magazine-club price guide explaining how to form a club by adding magazines' class numbers, multiplying by five and adding the agent's profit, followed by a list of titles such as Atlantic, McClure, Cosmopolitan and Bicycling World with their prices and class numbers.