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The Evening Courier

Our picture: Vellmar, 23 August 2013, after. You can tell which. Schall Almanacs (Licensed) lists on the Vellmar Exchange as SCHA.

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

What the Assembly did while you were at work.

24 August 2013. The Broadcasting (Amendment) Act goes through. Passed by the Assembly by 39 votes to 9. Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 72 marka. It changes The Broadcasting (Amendment) Act. You will notice, or you will not.

24 August 2013. The Weinau Examinations Act goes through. Passed by the Assembly by 36 votes to 24. Applies to children between 7 and 12. Nobody cheered.

23 August 2013. The Grauburg Telegraph Act goes through. Passed by the Assembly by 49 votes to 10. Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 72 marka. Nobody cheered.

21 August 2013. An Act for the Better Inspection of Motorway goes through. Passed by the Assembly by 43 votes to 16. Provides 260266 marka for works between Hagenkirchen and Grauholt. It took them all afternoon.

The Regional Court of The Ostrand. The Crown v. Fenn: Concerning smuggling salt across the Sudmark. Ruling: 12 months. You should have seen the faces.

Money

What your pfen buys this week.

Bread 525 pfen the loaf. Beer 787.6 pfen the litre. A day's work pays 100.87 marka. A room costs 353.05 marka the month. The Exchange closed the year at 42,322.80. Bank rate 3.62 per cent.

The War Appropriation this year: 209,210,413 marka. Sixty-three to nil.

Born, wed, gone.

153 births, 104 weddings, 162 deaths this week. Population 720,017.

On this day

206 years ago. The coldest night in 80 years is recorded at Sudfurt. Lake Tarn freezes to the middle. Report.

204 years ago. Roderik Hallin becomes Speaker of the Assembly. Report.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

Sport

Pfahl. The League of 2012 went to Altstadt Pfahl Club. Full table.

ClubWL
Altstadt Pfahl Club202
Grauburg Fortress175
Kessel Iron157
Weinfeld Vintners157
Hollstadt Workers139
Tarnmund Lake1012
Norrwick Printers913
Vellmar Wardens715
Reedside Athletic715
Marschau Garrison715
Ostrabruck Bridge715
Brennholt Farmers517

Player of the season, says the Courier: whoever planted the last stake. Ten out of ten.

The Stars

Aries You will be asked the time. Give the licensed one.
Taurus Eat the eel. It is good for you.
Gemini Say less at the market than you mean to.
Cancer Check the clock against the Ministry's. It is slow.
Leo The Exchange is not for you this week.
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 Do not lend the ladder.
Aquarius Something you lost turns up in the wrong pocket.
Pisces Someone compliments your boots. They want to borrow them.

The Courier crossword

Today's crossword

Across runs across. Down runs down. Solution tomorrow. Do not send in almanacs. 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.