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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 05, 1918
Page
3
Cranbrook items note residents visiting the city, flu cases easing, and hospital recoveries while merchants promote Christmas sales. Highlights include Beale & Elwell insurance offers, Patmore Bros appliances, and local figures like Laurie Langin and Jas Lambert visiting or doing business.
The list shows textbooks available at Beattie Murphy's Drug Store Cranbrook Book and Drug Co Moffatt's for various classes. Titles include French Grammar Elementary Botany High School Geometry Crawford's Algebra Fraser and Squairs Poems of the Romantic Revival and Reflect ed Poems by Alexander. Principal R B Forsyth signs the notice.
The Cranbrook Herald advertises its unique position as a premier news and classified medium. It touts distinctive ads and news items aimed at prosperous readers and requests help adding 100 new subscribers this month.
An October letter from Private A Parker in Seaford Sussex describes reunion with Cranbrook friends Horspool Tighe Med r e d y and Tom Laidlaw. Parker notes Horspool survived a head wound, Tighe remains in the M O s office, Laidlaw heads a platoon and plans marriage next January. He closes with hope that peace comes soon for the troops.
A Reuters reporter at Harwich describes the surrendered submarines along a mile long avenue. Sub marines are towed in batches of three or four. Officers say their flag was red. A blood stained cat o nine tails was found under a captain's bunk on a Deutschland type submarine.
The Cunard liner Aquitania, 46000 tons, arrived in Halifax with 4000 returning Canadian soldiers aboard. Naval officials praised her wartime service as she rested under Admiralty control after extensive troop transport use. The ship had seen encounters with U boats and escorted American troops to England after the US entry.
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