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The Evening Courier

Our picture: Norrhafen, 11 March 2002, before. You can tell which. A cart overturns in Lime Square, Norrhafen. The driver, a man of Weinfeld, is taken to hospital.

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.

10 March 2002. The Vaccination (Amendment) Act goes through. Passed by the Assembly by 44 votes to 2. Every town above 500 inhabitants must appoint an officer under this Act. It changes The Norrhafen Vaccination Act. You will notice, or you will not.

The Court of Chronological Offences. The Crown v. H. H.: Concerning assertion of the unyear in a public house at Vellmar. Ruling: acquitted: the witness was drunk. The gallery was half empty by lunch.

The Regional Court of Westgau. The Crown v. Kessler: Concerning desertion from the Marsh Regiments. Ruling: acquitted: he was lost in the fog. You should have seen the faces.

The Regional Court of The Sudmark. The Crown v. Reinholt: Concerning smuggling salt across the Sudmark. Ruling: 10 months. The Courier was there.

The Regional Court of The Capital District. Brenn v. Grau: Concerning the reckoning of a lease spanning the removed year. Ruling: rent for the removed period not recoverable. The Courier was there.

Money

The prices that matter.

Bread 416.6 pfen the loaf. Beer 624.9 pfen the litre. A day's work pays 76.03 marka. A room costs 266.1 marka the month. The Exchange closed the year at 58,652.50. Bank rate 4.01 per cent.

The War Appropriation this year: 161,519,157 marka. Sixty-three to nil.

Hatched, matched and dispatched.

197 births, 111 weddings, 153 deaths this week. Population 716,272.

On this day

191 years ago. The harvest at Norrhafen is reported late. Grain is 6 pfen the measure. Report.

189 years ago. Vellmar marks the 500th anniversary of its charter with a procession along Printer Row. Report.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

Sport

Pfahl. The League of 2001 went to Hollstadt Workers. Full table.

ClubWL
Hollstadt Workers193
Norrwick Printers157
Marschau Garrison157
Altstadt Pfahl Club139
Grauburg Fortress1210
Vellmar Wardens1210
Tarnmund Lake1210
Reedside Athletic1111
Weinfeld Vintners814
Kessel Iron715
Ostrabruck Bridge517
Brennholt Farmers319

The Courier's man on the bank rates the champions' stake-men 9 out of ten and the ferry 3.

The Stars

Aries You will be asked the time. Give the licensed one.
Taurus Someone at work repeats your idea. Let them.
Gemini You will hear the same story twice. Believe the second telling.
Cancer A debt is paid to you in kind. Take it.
Leo An old debt is mentioned. Pay it before the month turns.
Virgo Count the change. Then count it again.
Libra The scales tip your way on Thursday.
Scorpio Old papers should stay in the attic. Better still, hand them in.
Sagittarius The road is longer than the map says.
Capricorn A form arrives. Fill it in the same day.
Aquarius Drink the beer, not the water.
Pisces The water is high. Stay on the causeway.

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.