Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 9, No 4
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
An announcement that the League of American Wheelmen's office has moved from Boston to 105 Central Avenue, Newtonville, Massachusetts, with a Boston address of call maintained at Peck's shop.
- p. 2
A report on the Century Wheelmen of Philadelphia's silver jubilee dinner, with 125 guests and a room full of trophies, banners, and portraits from the golden age of cycling.
- p. 2
An obituary for Colonel Higginson, who died at eighty-seven, recalling his enthusiasm for cycling in the 1880s and his role as president of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club.
- p. 3
A poem by Thomas Wentworth Higginson about aging soldiers waiting for a battle call, offered as a meditation on old age and the rallying power of hope.
- p. 4
A note on the new Father's Day proposal by Mrs. J.B. Dood of Spokane, arguing that fathers deserve their own day of recognition just as mothers do.
- p. 4
A report on a new Minnesota-built motorized plough being tested in Kansas, claimed to turn fifteen acres daily on ten gallons of gasoline with one operator.