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The Evening Courier

Our picture: Hagenkirchen, 19 January 2001, the crowd. Spot yourself. The Hagenkirchen council installs a computer to keep the rates. It occupies a room in Vine Row.

The Roll as published by the War Ministry

SergeantFelix Haunn, of NiederbruckThe 2nd Marsh Regimentenemy action14 January 2001

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

What the Assembly did while you were at work.

17 January 2001. The Sunday Observance (Amendment) Act goes through. Passed by the Assembly by 38 votes to 17. Penalty on conviction: a fine of 1382 marka or 21 months. It changes The Sunday Observance Act. Nobody cheered.

16 January 2001. The Road Traffic Regulation Act goes through. Passed by the Assembly by 40 votes to 20. Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 345 marka. You will notice, or you will not.

13 January 2001. The Sanitation (Amendment) Act goes through. Passed by the Assembly by 35 votes to 19. Every town above 5000 inhabitants must appoint an officer under this Act. It changes The Sanitation (Amendment) Act. It took them all afternoon.

The High Court. Rusk v. Thal: Concerning the reckoning of a lease spanning the removed year. Ruling: for the tenant. You should have seen the faces.

The Regional Court of The Osmoor. Mossbach v. Brenn: Concerning the reckoning of a lease spanning the removed year. Ruling: for the tenant. You should have seen the faces.

The Regional Court of The Osmoor. Lekleich v. Kessler: Concerning a boundary between two farms at Berging. Ruling: for the plaintiff. You should have seen the faces.

The Regional Court of Kesselhöh. The Crown v. Fenn: Concerning smuggling salt across the Sudmark. Ruling: 6 months. The Courier was there.

The Regional Court of The Sudmark. Nurmann v. Sudmann: Concerning an unpaid debt of 81008 marka. Ruling: dismissed. The gallery was half empty by lunch.

Money

Money. Yours, mostly going.

Bread 405 pfen the loaf. Beer 607.6 pfen the litre. A day's work pays 73.38 marka. A room costs 256.85 marka the month. The Exchange closed the year at 64,109.60. Bank rate 3.45 per cent.

The War Appropriation this year: 157,075,817 marka. Sixty-three to nil.

Born, wed, gone.

199 births, 124 weddings, 179 deaths this week. Population 715,477.

On this day

195 years ago. The bells of Weinwick church are recast. They are rung for the first time on Sunday. Report.

187 years ago. The harvest at Salzhafen is reported the best in memory. Grain is 7 pfen the measure. Report.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

Sport

Pfahl. The League of 2000 went to Grauburg Fortress. Full table.

ClubWL
Grauburg Fortress157
Reedside Athletic157
Marschau Garrison157
Hollstadt Workers148
Vellmar Wardens139
Norrwick Printers1210
Tarnmund Lake1111
Altstadt Pfahl Club1111
Weinfeld Vintners1012
Kessel Iron715
Ostrabruck Bridge517
Brennholt Farmers418

The Courier's man on the bank rates the champions' stake-men 7 out of ten and the ferry 5.

The Stars

Aries Do not argue with a carter this week.
Taurus A door sticks. Oil it before it matters.
Gemini Say less at the market than you mean to.
Cancer The causeway is dry. Use it.
Leo You will be thanked in public. Look modest.
Virgo Sort the drawer you have been avoiding.
Libra A quarrel over nothing. It ends by supper.
Scorpio Old papers should stay in the attic. Better still, hand them in.
Sagittarius The road is longer than the map says.
Capricorn Hard work this week; the reward is next week, or the one after.
Aquarius Drink the beer, not the water.
Pisces The water is high. Stay on the causeway.

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.