Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 9, No 10
Articles in this issue
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A playful poem about Christmas falling on a Monday, ruining the usual Sunday preparations and catching the housewife with a cold roast and stale dessert.
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A Christmas retrospective counting the Christmases since the League's founding, with short reminiscences of how the season was marked in the golden cycling days of the 1880s and 1890s.
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A note tracing the disputed etymology of the word 'bike' and the competing British term 'push-cycle', drawing on early cycling press sources to show how the names arose.
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A letter from George W. Chinn (member no. 50) recalling Karl Kron at the L.A.W.'s first meet in Lubec in 1883, hiding from photographers and wearing a hat to disguise himself.
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A report on the Peoria Bicycle Club's ninety-second annual chicken run to Mossville, at which only three of thirty-six members arrived on bicycles and the rest came by automobile.
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A report on the Boston Bicycle Club's Thanksgiving morning run to Blue Hill, noting that the event drew a record number of cyclists for a mid-November excursion.