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The Evening Courier

Our picture: Vellmar, 29 July 2001, during. You can tell which. Hochstadt Electric Company lists on the Vellmar Exchange as MMT.

The Roll as published by the War Ministry

No names this week. Good.

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

Courts and Assembly

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

29 July 2001. The Dating of Instruments (Amendment) Act goes through. Passed by the Assembly by 47 votes to 12. Administered by the Ministry of Chronology. Offences under this Act are tried before the Court of Chronological Offences. It changes The Dating of Instruments Act. Nobody cheered.

27 July 2001. The Prisons Act goes through. Passed by the Assembly by 35 votes to 21. Penalty on conviction: a fine of 138 marka or 14 months. Comes into force on 1 January 2002. It took them all afternoon.

The Regional Court of Kesselhöh. The Crown v. Rarmann: Concerning theft of twelve mules. Ruling: 1 months. You should have seen the faces.

The Regional Court of Westgau. Brenn v. Moor: Concerning a boundary between two farms at Lindenmar. Ruling: boundary fixed at the old ditch. You should have seen the faces.

Money

The prices that matter.

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.

159 births, 100 weddings, 177 deaths this week. Population 715,477.

On this day

195 years ago. The harvest at Dammberg is reported late. Grain is 5 pfen the measure. Report.

185 years ago. A storm strips roofs in Weinwick and fells the old lime in Chapel Street. 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 A letter you expected does not come. Buy bread early.
Taurus Someone at work repeats your idea. Let them.
Gemini Two invitations for the same evening. Take the nearer.
Cancer A debt is paid to you in kind. Take it.
Leo An old debt is mentioned. Pay it before the month turns.
Virgo A form arrives. Fill it in the same day.
Libra The scales tip your way on Saturday.
Scorpio Hold your tongue at the ferry.
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

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.