Nov. 11

Started looking through the box of old newspaper/recipe clippings that I brought back from cleaning out my parent's house. I wish the dates were on some of these clippings. There is on with "An Iced Cake" recipe on one side from a Mrs. Bell of 17 Caledonian Place, Edinburgh, who won a prize of "2s 6d" for the recipe.

On the other side is news of what appears to be troop movements in the Boer War. "... Further to the south, in the district around the Orange River Colony border, the burghers are still in evidence, a British convoy having been attacked. The enemy has not yet been cleared away from the western frontier of the Transvaal. ..."