Possible Clues:

• Scraps involving old theologian's servants way back
• Strange chaps have empty trunks for bits and pieces
• Miscellany
• Weird blokes turn up street to have scraps
• Broken sets
• Sundry items from strange fellows on way up
• Peculiar chaps by back street causing scraps
• Do mend broken front and back of this -- bits and bobs needed
• Out there, soldiers empty this for scraps
• Unusual name in US baseball team remains