Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911   By: Boy Scouts of America

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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

Boy Scouts of America Official National Out SIGMUND EISNER

New York Salesrooms 103 Fifth Avenue Red Bank. N. J.

[Illustration: Two Boy Scouts in full uniform. (tr)] Each part of the uniform is stamped with the official seal of the Boy Scouts of America.

If there is no agency for the official uniform in your city write for samples.

SIGMUND EISNER

Manufacturer of U. S. Army and National Guard Uniform

The Best Food for The Boy Scouts is

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Shredded Wheat

because it has all the muscle building, bone making material in the whole wheat grain prepared in a digestible form, supplying all the strength needed for work or play. It is ready cooked and ready to eat. It has the greatest amount of body building nutriment in smallest bulk. Its crispness compels thorough mastication, and the more you chew it the better you like it. Shredded Wheat is the favorite food of athletes. It is on the training table of nearly every college and university in this country. The records show that the winners of many brilliant rowing and track events have been trained on Shredded Wheat.

The BISCUIT is in little loaf form. It is baked a crisp, golden brown. It is eaten with milk or cream, or fruit, or is delicious when eaten as a toast with butter. TRISCUIT is the Shredded Wheat wafer the ideal food for the camp or the long tramp .

Building buster boys is bully business that's the reason we want to help the Boy Scout movement .

The Shredded Wheat Company Niagara Falls, N. Y.

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BOY SCOUTS of AMERICA THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK FOR BOYS

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Published for THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 200 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1911

COPYRIGHT 1911 BY BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

BOY SCOUT CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that of State of Street and City or Town address

Age Height Weigh

is a member of Patrol, of Troop No.

Scout Master

SCOUT HISTORY

Qualified as Tenderfoot 191

Second Class Scout 191

First Class Scout 191

QUALIFIED FOR MERIT BADGES SUBJECT DATE 1 2 3 4 5

Qualified as Life Scout

Qualified as Star Scout

Qualified as Eagle Scout

Awarded Honor Medal

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PREFACE

The Boy Scout Movement has become almost universal, and wherever organized its leaders are glad, as we are, to acknowledge the debt we all owe to Lieut. Gen. Sir Robert S. S. Baden Powell, who has done so much to make the movement of interest to boys of all nations.

The BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA is a corporation formed by a group of men who are anxious that the boys of America should come under the influence of this movement and be built up in all that goes to make character and good citizenship. The affairs of the organization are managed by a National Council, composed of some of the most prominent men of our country, who gladly and freely give their time and money that this purpose may be accomplished.

In the various cities, towns, and villages, the welfare of the boy scouts is cared for by local councils, and these councils, like the National Council are composed of men who are seeking for the boys of the community the very best things.