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The Evening Courier

Our picture: Vellmar, 25 June 1913, photographed for the Courier as the light went. Grauholt Press lists on the Vellmar Exchange as GHN.

The Roll as published by the War Ministry

PrivateLeon Hallin, of WeinhausenThe 1st Marsh Regimentenemy action20 June 1913

The Courier prints the Ministry's roll as the Ministry sends it. The Line holds.

The front line is at the Reed Line. No change.

Courts and Assembly

The Assembly this week, in words of one syllable where possible.

22 June 1913. The Road Traffic Act goes through. Passed by the Assembly by 54 votes to 3. Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 853 marka. You will notice, or you will not.

The High Court. Marrow v. Brenn: Concerning an article in The Schwartzistan Herald. Ruling: dismissed: fair comment. You should have seen the faces.

The Regional Court of The Capital District. The Crown v. Brenn: Concerning smuggling salt across the Sudmark. Ruling: fined 91 marka. The Courier was there.

The Regional Court of Kesselhöh. Salm v. Hartwig: Concerning an unpaid debt of 549 marka. Ruling: for the plaintiff with costs. The gallery was half empty by lunch.

The Regional Court of The Osmoor. The Crown v. Lenz: Concerning fraud on the Vellmar Exchange. Ruling: 4 years. The Courier was there.

Money

The Courier's shopping basket.

Bread 18.3 pfen the loaf. Beer 27.5 pfen the litre. A day's work pays 1.71 marka. A room costs 5.98 marka the month. The Exchange closed the year at 2,808.10. Bank rate 3.21 per cent.

The War Appropriation this year: 3,321,410 marka. Sixty-three to nil.

Born, wed, gone.

202 births, 82 weddings, 110 deaths this week. Population 425,807.

On this day

108 years ago. The Ostra rises 60 centimetres above its mark at Kessel. Cellars in Salt Row are flooded. Report.

108 years ago. The harvest at Wasserdorf is reported good. Grain is 7 pfen the measure. Report.

Sport

Pfahl. The League of 1912 went to Marschau Garrison. Full table.

ClubWL
Marschau Garrison122
Kessel Iron104
Hollstadt Workers95
Ostrabruck Bridge68
Tarnmund Lake68
Vellmar Wardens59
Grauburg Fortress59
Norrwick Printers311

The Courier's verdict on the season: worth it. Table below.

The Stars

Aries Do not argue with a carter this week.
Taurus The weather turns and so does your luck, briefly.
Gemini A cousin writes. Reply this week or not at all.
Cancer The causeway is dry. Use it.
Leo Someone admires your coat. Do not lend it.
Virgo A form arrives. Fill it in the same day.
Libra Two people want your opinion. Give it to neither.
Scorpio Someone is keeping something from you. It is probably a cake.
Sagittarius Good news from a cousin. It costs you a stamp.
Capricorn Do not lend the ladder.
Aquarius Drink the beer, not the water.
Pisces The water is high. Stay on the causeway.

The Courier crossword

Today's crossword

Solution in tomorrow's Courier. The setter is not responsible for the Grand Chancellor's name being awkward. Fill it in online. Yesterday's habit, today's solution.

Printed and published at Vellmar by The Evening Courier. One pfen. Registered under the Press Act. Casualty figures as published by the War Ministry.

From the Courier's digitised back issues, every evening since 4 September 1871. Reproduced as printed.