Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 7, No 9

Articles in this issue

• POETRY AND POULTRY. (opens in a new tab)

  Two seasonal Thanksgiving verses, parodying Tennyson and Swinburne, on turkeys, doughnuts and pies awaiting the holiday feast.
• COME INSIDE, OH YOU TURKEY. (opens in a new tab)

  The opening editorial leader for the November 1909 issue, joking about the onset of winter, falling prices, Guy Fawkes and the suffragettes.
• THE ROAD-HOG AND THE TURNIP FLEA. (opens in a new tab)

  A humorous verse (from the Pall Mall Gazette) arguing that dust raised by motor and cycle traffic kills the turnip flea, prefaced by a note from the Mark Lane Express.
• JOINED IN 1893. (opens in a new tab)

  A roster of League of American Wheelmen members who joined in 1893 and remain in good standing, listing membership numbers, names, towns and dates (e.g. Owen Lawson of Louisville, Ky.).
• PERIODICAL DEPARTMENT. (opens in a new tab)

  An L.A.W. subscription-clubbing service explaining how to combine magazines by class number to compute a club price, followed by a price list of titles such as Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, McClure and Bicycling World.