Boy Scouts Handbook (1911)

Boy Scouts Handbook

The first Boy Scouts of America handbook collects advice, skills, rules, and equipment guidance for early American scouting. (Open Library)

Watches

Waltham watch

The handbook's back matter includes a Waltham advertisement presenting Waltham watches as accurate timepieces suitable for Boy Scouts. The advertisement appears on printed page 412, among the handbook's commercial back matter. It links accurate timekeeping to scouting's habits of punctuality and urges the reader to buy from a jeweler rather than choose a toy-priced clock watch from a notion store. This is advertising addressed to scouts, rather than a watch assigned to an individual scout in a story. (Project Gutenberg source text)

Source text: "It's time you owned a Waltham" — "The Watch for the Boy Scout as well as for the veteran." (Project Gutenberg ebook 29558)