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The Evening Courier

Our picture: Dammsee, 10 January 1921, this morning. The Courier's camera was there. Dammsee Press is founded at Dammsee by Ernst Brenn.

The Roll as published by the War Ministry

The Ministry sent no names. The Courier is glad of it.

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

Courts and Assembly

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

The Court of Chronological Offences. The Crown v. W. T.: Concerning assertion of the unyear in a public house at Vellmar. Ruling: fined 198 marka. The Courier was there.

The Regional Court of Norrfeld. Weiss v. Hosthardt: Concerning the estate of the late Hosthardt. Ruling: will set aside. The gallery was half empty by lunch.

Money

The prices that matter.

Bread 39.8 pfen the loaf. Beer 59.6 pfen the litre. A day's work pays 4.01 marka. A room costs 14.02 marka the month. The Exchange closed the year at 4,425. Bank rate 7.1 per cent.

The War Appropriation this year: 6,872,270 marka. Sixty-three to nil.

Hatched, matched and dispatched.

208 births, 95 weddings, 128 deaths this week. Population 460,600.

On this day

107 years ago. Moor Cloth Works is declared bankrupt. 477 jobs are lost at Weinfeld. Report.

105 years ago. The Ostra rises 20 centimetres above its mark at Grauholt. Cellars in Short Square are flooded. Report.

Sport

Pfahl. The League of 1920 went to Marschau Garrison. Full table.

ClubWL
Marschau Garrison142
Tarnmund Lake133
Hollstadt Workers124
Reedside Athletic97
Kessel Iron88
Grauburg Fortress610
Vellmar Wardens412
Ostrabruck Bridge412
Norrwick Printers214

The Courier's man on the bank rates the champions' stake-men 6 out of ten and the ferry 5.

15 November 1920. Marschau Garrison win the Pfahl League, their 26th title, with 14 wins from 16. Kurt Hoffick of Tarnmund Lake is top scorer with 42 stakes. Sport report.

The Stars

Aries Someone owes you a pfen. Let it go; it was never coming.
Taurus Eat the eel. It is good for you.
Gemini Say less at the market than you mean to.
Cancer Stay near the water. It is where you are happiest.
Leo An old debt is mentioned. Pay it before the month turns.
Virgo Sort the drawer you have been avoiding.
Libra Buy the loaf, not the cake.
Scorpio Do not travel east this week. There is no reason to.
Sagittarius The road is longer than the map says.
Capricorn Hard work this week; the reward is next week, or the one after.
Aquarius The weather turns. So does a friend, briefly.
Pisces A small fish is better than no fish.

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.