A list of defects attributed to Clarence S. of Cleveland; his story, "The Home Brewmeister", appeared in the First Edition. The last surviving member of the First 100, he sponsored a fellow who wrote the book How It Worked - The Story of Clarence Snyder where Clarence explained how it worked in 1939:
STEP FIVE: The inventory is of our defects, not our incidents. Here are the defects:
Source: Barefoot Bob