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The Evening Courier

The Front · The Reed Line · 17 June 2016

The Summer Action at the Third Stake. The 3rd Marsh Regiment engages enemy…

Tonight the Courier can tell you: The Summer Action at the Third Stake. The 3rd Marsh Regiment engages enemy movement in the reeds through the night and holds the line. The front is unchanged. The roll is on the back page. Read it. The Courier was there.

In the story: The 3rd Marsh Regiment, The Reed Line.

The Grand Chancellor, Renate Brenn, was not available to the Courier tonight.

Our picture: The Reed Line, 17 June 2016, during. You can tell which. The Summer Action at the Third Stake. The 3rd Marsh Regiment engages enemy movement in the reeds through the night and…

The Roll as published by the War Ministry

CorporalAndreas Krastmat, of GrautalThe 3rd Marsh Regimentenemy action17 June 2016
LieutenantFinn Kaltz, of NorrbruckThe 3rd Marsh Regimentenemy fire17 June 2016

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.

The High Court. Hallin v. Tresel: Concerning the reckoning of a lease spanning the removed year. Ruling: lease shortened by one year under the Continuity Act. The gallery was packed.

The High Court. Dorn v. Tockel: Concerning a contract for a printing press not delivered. Ruling: contract void. The Courier was there.

The Court of Chronological Offences. The Crown v. M. K.: Concerning possession of a clock face with an unlicensed year. Ruling: the clock destroyed; no further penalty. You should have seen the faces.

Money

The prices that matter.

Bread 558.5 pfen the loaf. Beer 837.8 pfen the litre. A day's work pays 110.75 marka. A room costs 387.63 marka the month. The Exchange closed the year at 27,701.40. Bank rate 3.98 per cent.

The War Appropriation this year: 227,046,856 marka. Sixty-three to nil.

The week in the registers.

148 births, 87 weddings, 157 deaths this week. Population 719,676.

On this day

207 years ago. Brenn Vineyards is founded at Salzhafen by Ulrik Brenn. Report.

200 years ago. A new bridge is opened at Norrbruck by the Minister of the Interior. It has 8 arches. Report.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

Sport

Pfahl. The League of 2015 went to Hollstadt Workers. Full table.

ClubWL
Hollstadt Workers211
Altstadt Pfahl Club184
Weinfeld Vintners184
Grauburg Fortress157
Norrwick Printers139
Vellmar Wardens1012
Kessel Iron913
Reedside Athletic814
Marschau Garrison715
Brennholt Farmers616
Ostrabruck Bridge418
Tarnmund Lake319

The Courier's verdict on the season: long. Table below.

The Stars

Aries Someone owes you a pfen. Let it go; it was never coming.
Taurus The weather turns and so does your luck, briefly.
Gemini A cousin writes. Reply this week or not at all.
Cancer Stay near the water. It is where you are happiest.
Leo An old debt is mentioned. Pay it before the month turns.
Virgo A form arrives. Fill it in the same day.
Libra A quarrel over nothing. It ends by supper.
Scorpio Someone is keeping something from you. It is probably a cake.
Sagittarius You will be late. Leave earlier than that.
Capricorn A form arrives. Fill it in the same day.
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.