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Boy Scouts of America Year Book
The Boy scouts of America published the Year book annually. Edited by Franklin K. Mathiews, Chief Scout Librarian, it contained stories of adventures, animals, sports, crafts and other subjects of interests to the Scouts.

Themes
Many themes were explored through the pages of the various editions including :
 * Sea Adventures: exemple: "Sea Scouting in War Times" by Sir. Robert Baden-Powell (1916)
 * Aircrafts: "Trans-Atlantic Air Travel" by Francis A. Collins (1916)
 * Hunting: "The Ethics of Trapping" by Dr. William T. Hornaday (1916), "The Lure of Crocodile Hunting" by Dr. Hornaday (1921)
 * Business: "Habits That Help" by Frank A. Vanderlip (1916)
 * Hiking: "Hiking on a Bike" by Stuart P. Walsh (1916), "Winter Hiking" (how to dress for winter hiking) by Dan Beard (1916)
 * Military Biographies: "Foch, the Believer" (about General Foch) by William Heylinger (1916), "He Was A Roosevelt" (about Quentin Roosevelt) by William Heylinger (1916)
 * Animals: "Making Animal Friends" by George Gladden (1916), "On nature trails" (information about unusual animals and birds) (1921), "The Grizzly Bear at Home" by Charles L. "Grizzly" Smith.
 * How-tos: "The Troop Carpenter Shop" by Dan Beard (1916), "Furnishing Troop Headquarters" by Dan Beard (1916), "Making the Troop Tote Wagon" by Dan Beard (1916), "Cooking in the Woods" by Horace Kephart (1916), "Making Model Airplanes: by Francis A. Collins (1921)
 * Handycraft: "Outdoor Handicraft" (1921)
 * Native Americans: "The Woods Indian" by S.E. Sangstery (1916)
 * Cowboys: "Shorty" (a cowboy episode) by Ross Santee (1921)
 * Science: " Pops of Popular Science" (1921)


 * Stories including stories about Scouts: "The Missing Lynx" by Irving Crump (1916), "Good Turns Like Chickens" Joseph B. Ames (1916), "You tell 'Em, Tenderfoot" by Brewer Corcoran (1921), "The Mad Mullah's Mark" (about a Uganda Scout Troop encountering smugglers) by Captain A. P, Corcoran (1921), "A Child of Luck" (the luck of an old prospector in the 1849 California Gold Rush) (1921), "Brothers of the Wind" (an adventure involving wild geese in migration) by Lee Willenborg (1921).


 * Poems: "The Ballad of Pirates' Gold" by Edmund Leamy (1921), "when the Sparkle's on the Snow" by Clark Elbert Schurman (1921)

1915: President Wilson, Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, Postmaster General Burleson, Orville Wright, Baden-Powell, Henry Van Dyke, William T. Hornaday, Sir Douglas Mawson, Daniel Carter Beard, Paul J. Rainey, Dillon Wallace, Walter Camp, Christy Mathewson, Joseph A. Altsheler, Ralph D. Paine, Walter Prichard Eaton, Dr. William Brady, Captain C. A. McAllister, John Fleming Wilson. $1.50

1916: articles from President Wilson, Colonel Roosevelt (ex-President), Orville Wright, Dillon Wallace. With over 100 pictures. 20 full pages of photographs, and 2 colored plates 10 1/4 inches high by 7 1/2 inches wide and 1 1/2 thick. Bound in red cloth with stamped gold. Cost $1.50 net or mailed for $1.65.

1917: Contributors: President Wilson, Colonel Roosevelt, Daniel Carter Beard, Dillon Wallace, Thornton W. Burgess, Armstrong Perry, Lieut. E Russel Paterson, Irving Crump, A. Frederick Collins, William Heyliger, Elmer Russel Gregor, Capt. Jack Crawford.

1918: Articles on Boy Scouts in War Time, the US flag, Secretary Daniels, Postmaster General Burleson, James E. West, Lieut General Sir Baden-Powell, A. Frederick Collins. Stories by Joseph B. Ames, Willian Heyliger, Herman Hagedorn, T. R. Elderdice, J. C. Dubois, Stephen Chalmers, Armstrong Perry. "trailing" by Dan Beard, "Pollen and Honey" by Eugene Wood, "Using your Knife Right", "How to Make a Scout Sled". Published by D. Appleton & Company for Boy Scouts of America.

1919: President Wilson, Secretary Daniels, Secretary Burleson, General Pershing, Daniel Carter Beard, Armstrong Perry, Irving Crump, William Heyliger, Jospeh B. Ames, F. A. Collins, Chief Grub Scout Fullerton, Eugene Wood, The Scout Naturalist. $2.00

1920: $2.50

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https://oa-bsa.org/article/seek-new-scouting-college

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E. Urner Goodman, founder of the OA, was made a Mason in Lamberton Lodge 487 in Philadelphia, in 1918. Here is the entry in the Lodge (Masonic, not Unami) members book, where the secretary recorded his Entered Apprentice degree date.

https://www.womenofgrace.com:8443/blog/?p=82443

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