Chapter I: Front Matter

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BOY SCOUTS HANDBOOK _The First Edition, 1911_

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

Boy Scouts of America Official National Out SIGMUND EISNER

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

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

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.

BOY SCOUTS of AMERICA THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK FOR BOYS

_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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