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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 25, 1918
Page
2
The Cranbrook Herald prints ten practical tips from Macdonald College staff on conserving food during shortages. Suggestions include trimming bread, using breadcrumbs, minimizing batter, using one more potato with less bread, smaller tea sugar portions, avoiding soap soaking, and eating only what you require, with emphasis on individual responsibility to save.
The article reflects on Britain and Europe during Napoleon's rise to power. It recounts Trafalgar and subsequent campaigns from 1805 to 1812, noting Napoleon's continental domination, British resistance, and eventual downfall as Russia Prussia Austria and others joined to defeat him. It warns that earlier generations endured harsher days and warns against premature peace.
The piece argues Britain’s historic isolation, Russia’s 1807 desertion, and France’s wartime alliance shift. It highlights American, Italian, and Japanese strengths, urges perseverance, and notes Bourassa’s criticized stance. It ends by noting Australian women offering to enlist despite likely rejection.
The Halifax Y M C A hut near the dockyard serves sailors in training, offering hot showers, baths, a canteen, and a large central room with piano, gramophone, billiards, games, reading material, and free stationery. The article praises the Y's role in naval morale and notes the Niobe as a training ship contributing to Canada’s emerging navy.
A Halifax naval story details the Y M C A Hut in the Dockyard offering free privileges and entertainment to Canadian Navy personnel. It notes the hut survived the Halifax disaster only to be destroyed by the December harbor explosion. Admiral Sir Charles B. Kingsmill commended the Y M C A services as inestimable for petty officers and men.
Reported by Belgian information shows German depots and camps starving not only workers but their families as punishment for resistance. Posters dated June 14 1917 in Menin warn relief only for destitute families of laborers at military works. others to receive none.
A Lagrange North Carolina resident states Vinol cured a long standing cough aided sleep and weight gain. The testimonial promotes Vinci as the best tonic and tissue builder with a money back guarantee and mentions Cranbrook Drug & Book Co in Cranbrook British Columbia.
The City of Cranbrook seeks a complete list of local and non local soldiers who died in the present war for a memorial. Relatives or friends should send information to the City Clerk Cranbrook B C April 24 1918. Objections to the application must be filed within thirty days after the notice first appeared in a local newspaper.
C B Garrett of Cranbrook BC applies to take one second foot of water from new lake and Dickson Creek in Lot 914 for domestic and irrigation use on the western half of Lot 5248. Notice posted April 24 1918. Copy of notice and application filed with Water Recorder at Cranbrook BC under Water Act 1914.
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