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The Evening Courier

Our picture: Lindenmar, 21 August 2002, after. You can tell which. Sudmark Wine Company is wound up. 611 jobs are lost at Lindenmar.

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.

24 August 2002. An Act for the Better Licensing of Weights and Measures goes through. Passed by the Assembly by 45 votes to 14. Sets the duty at 4 pfen in the marka. You will notice, or you will not.

The Regional Court of Norrfeld. Wendl v. Grau: Concerning an article in The Schwartzistan Herald. Ruling: dismissed: fair comment. The Courier was there.

The Regional Court of Norrfeld. The Crown v. Wendl: Concerning theft of a consignment of paper. Ruling: 10 months. You should have seen the faces.

The Regional Court of Kesselhöh. The Crown v. Grau: Concerning desertion from the Marsh Regiments. Ruling: 4 years. The gallery was half empty by lunch.

The Regional Court of Kesselhöh. The Crown v. Wendl: Concerning desertion from the Marsh Regiments. Ruling: acquitted: he was lost in the fog. The gallery was half empty by lunch.

Money

What your pfen buys this week.

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.

The week in the registers.

181 births, 108 weddings, 164 deaths this week. Population 716,272.

On this day

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

195 years ago. The summer fair opens at Reedtal. 400 head of cattle change hands. Prices are described as firm. 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 Someone owes you a pfen. Let it go; it was never coming.
Taurus A door sticks. Oil it before it matters.
Gemini A cousin writes. Reply this week or not at all.
Cancer The causeway is dry. Use it.
Leo An old debt is mentioned. Pay it before the month turns.
Virgo A form arrives. Fill it in the same day.
Libra Buy the loaf, not the cake.
Scorpio Do not travel east this week. There is no reason to.
Sagittarius The road is longer than the map says.
Capricorn Do not lend the ladder.
Aquarius The weather turns. So does a friend, briefly.
Pisces Someone compliments your boots. They want to borrow them.

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.