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The Evening Courier
Vellmar · Friday, 5 August 1949 · No. 28,460 · Editor: Edvard Trost · Late edition
Money · Sudholt · 5 August 1949
Lesing & Sons, Printers is wound up. 83 jobs are lost at Sudholt.
Lesing & Sons, Printers is wound up. 83 jobs are lost at Sudholt. The Courier asked the men at the gate. They shrugged. The Courier was there.
In the story: Lesing & Sons, Printers.
The Grand Chancellor, Rudolf Brenn, was not available to the Courier tonight.
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
What the Assembly did while you were at work.
The Regional Court of Kesselhöh. The Crown v. Rollhardt: Concerning assault at Vellhausen. Ruling: 12 months. You should have seen the faces.
The Regional Court of Kesselhöh. The Crown v. Baum: Concerning theft of church bells. Ruling: acquitted. The gallery was half empty by lunch.
The Regional Court of The Sudmark. The Crown v. Gornen: Concerning desertion from the Marsh Regiments. Ruling: 11 years. The gallery was full.
Money
The prices that matter.
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.
Hatched, matched and dispatched.
202 births, 99 weddings, 144 deaths this week. Population 578,379.
On this day
140 years ago. A fire in Bridge Street at Reedtal destroys 5 houses. The fire company attend. No lives are lost. Report.
139 years ago. The paper mill at Sandfeld burns through the night. 59 men are out of work. Report.
Programmes of the day: the wireless.
Sport
Pfahl. The League of 1948 went to Marschau Garrison. Full table.
| Club | W | L |
|---|---|---|
| Marschau Garrison | 14 | 4 |
| Reedside Athletic | 12 | 6 |
| Weinfeld Vintners | 11 | 7 |
| Tarnmund Lake | 10 | 8 |
| Grauburg Fortress | 9 | 9 |
| Norrwick Printers | 9 | 9 |
| Ostrabruck Bridge | 8 | 10 |
| Hollstadt Workers | 7 | 11 |
| Kessel Iron | 7 | 11 |
| Vellmar Wardens | 3 | 15 |
The Courier's man on the bank rates the champions' stake-men 6 out of ten and the ferry 5.
The Stars
The Courier 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.
printing · Brennholt · since 1895 · IDS
Brennel & Sons, Printers, Brennholt: printing of handbills, notices and catalogues at short notice. See our stand at the spring fair.
food · Sandfeld · since 1925 · WJO
Ask for Sandfeld Dairy: provisions for the household and the garrison, from Sandfeld to every town in the country.
defence · Sudfurt · since 1890 · WJT
Ask for Sudfurt Ordnance Works: stores and equipment under contract to the War Ministry, from Sudfurt to every town in the country.
construction · Vellmar · since 1910 · EVW
Ask for Brenn & Gilhor, Masons: building work, drainage and pile-driving undertaken, from Vellmar to every town in the country.
chemicals · Marschau · since 1941 · KOE
Kolm Chemie, Marschau: soda, bleach and mordants. See our stand at the autumn fair.
printing · Wasserdorf · since 1874 · UVK
Wasserdorf Press of Wasserdorf: licensed almanacs, account books and forms of every description. Quality you can depend upon.