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The Evening Courier

Our picture: Kessel, 12 February 1949, photographed for the Courier as the light went. Seinek Almanacs (Licensed) is founded at Kessel by Johanna Seinek.

The Roll as published by the War Ministry

PrivateLukas Zeller, of VellmarThe 3rd Marsh Regimentenemy action12 February 1949

As issued by the War Ministry. The Courier adds nothing.

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

Courts and Assembly

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

7 February 1949. The Military Pensions Regulation Act goes through. Passed by the Assembly without a division. Charged to the Annual War Appropriation. Passed unanimously, as is customary for measures concerning the Line. You will notice, or you will not.

The High Court. Haunn v. Fozin: Concerning an unpaid debt of 34087 marka. Ruling: dismissed. You should have seen the faces.

The Regional Court of The Capital District. The Crown v. Hunklun: Concerning fraud on the War Ministry. Ruling: 15 months with hard labour. The gallery was half empty by lunch.

The Regional Court of Westgau. The Crown v. Lenz: Concerning smuggling salt across the Sudmark. Ruling: 7 months. The gallery was half empty by lunch.

The Regional Court of The Sudmark. The Crown v. Brenn: Concerning smuggling salt across the Sudmark. Ruling: fined 2045 marka. The Courier was there.

The Regional Court of The Sudmark. Fenn v. Hallin: Concerning smoke from a gasworks at Weinau. Ruling: dismissed. The gallery was half empty by lunch.

The Regional Court of The Sudmark. Teirich v. Fenn: Concerning the reckoning of a lease spanning the removed year. Ruling: lease shortened by one year under the Continuity Act. The gallery was full.

Money

The Courier's shopping basket.

Bread 68.2 pfen the loaf. Beer 102.3 pfen the litre. A day's work pays 8.62 marka. A room costs 30.15 marka the month. The Exchange closed the year at 10,063.30. Bank rate 5.05 per cent.

The War Appropriation this year: 18,031,802 marka. Sixty-three to nil.

The week in the registers.

227 births, 95 weddings, 153 deaths this week. Population 578,379.

On this day

141 years ago. The harvest at Kessel is reported good. Grain is 3 pfen the measure. Report.

136 years ago. The coldest night in 60 years is recorded at Dammsee. Lake Tarn freezes to the middle. Report.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

Sport

Pfahl. The League of 1948 went to Marschau Garrison. Full table.

ClubWL
Marschau Garrison144
Reedside Athletic126
Weinfeld Vintners117
Tarnmund Lake108
Grauburg Fortress99
Norrwick Printers99
Ostrabruck Bridge810
Hollstadt Workers711
Kessel Iron711
Vellmar Wardens315

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

The Stars

Aries Someone owes you a pfen. Let it go; it was never coming.
Taurus Someone at work repeats your idea. Let them.
Gemini A cousin writes. Reply this week or not at all.
Cancer A debt is paid to you in kind. Take it.
Leo You will be thanked in public. Look modest.
Virgo Count the change. Then count it again.
Libra Buy the loaf, not the cake.
Scorpio Old papers should stay in the attic. Better still, hand them in.
Sagittarius You will be late. Leave earlier than that.
Capricorn Hard work this week; the reward is next week, or the one after.
Aquarius Something you lost turns up in the wrong pocket.
Pisces A small fish is better than no fish.

The Courier crossword

Today's crossword

Clues marked Across run left to right; the rest run down. Solution in tomorrow's Courier. Entries with a licensed calendar reference are void. 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.