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The Schwartzistan Herald

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The Line The front line is at the Reed Line. No change. Latest reports
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bright, cold; a thin mist on the water until noonPrice 20 pfen

The Schwartzistan Herald

Quast Brewery lists on the Vellmar Exchange as QUY

Vellmar, 4 October 1921

Quast Brewery lists on the Vellmar Exchange as QUY. Vellmar.

Vellmar (from our correspondent). Quast Brewery lists on the Vellmar Exchange as QUY. Dealing was brisk and the first price was called as the lamps were lit.

The company's books are kept at Vellmar and may be inspected by shareholders on application at the registered office between 10 and 3 o'clock.

Concerning: The Vellmar Exchange, Quast Brewery.

Casualty Roll as published by the War Ministry

CorporalSigmund Quast, of FurtauThe 3rd Marsh Regimentenemy action6 October 1921
LieutenantErnst Brenn, of SalzhafenThe 5th Marsh Regimentenemy action3 October 1921
PrivateWillem Rabe, of OberbachThe 4th Marsh Regimentenemy action2 October 1921

Official. Enquiries to the Records Office.

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

The Assembly

Assembly: not sitting.

The Grand Chancellor, Bruno Fiechdon, has held office since 20 October 1919.

The Courts

The Regional Court of Kesselhöh, 6 October 1921. The Crown v. Ostrand. Concerning theft of forty barrels of wine. Ruling: bound over. Gallery thin.

The Regional Court of The Osmoor, 4 October 1921. Kaltz v. Brenn. Concerning an unpaid debt of 1192 marka. Ruling: for the plaintiff, half the sum. Gallery full.

The Market

Markets steady. Wireless shares steady. Prices:

Bread, the loaf, 39.8 pfen; beer, the litre, 59.6 pfen. A labourer's day is paid at 4.01 marka; a furnished room lets at 14.02 marka the month. The Exchange index closed the year at 4,425. Bank rate stands at 7.1 per cent.

The War Appropriation for the year, 6,872,270 marka, passed the Assembly without a dissenting voice.

Registers

Registers: Recorded this week throughout the country: 212 births, 87 marriages, 126 deaths. Population at the last return, 460,600.

Deaths

Ilse Brenn, clerk, born at Dammberg on 20 November 1856, died 3 October 1921. clerk, of Dammberg. Funeral private.

On This Day

On this day.

116 years ago. The Ostra rises 40 centimetres above its mark at Norrwick. Cellars in Weaver Street are flooded. Report.

115 years ago. Hollhausen marks the 500th anniversary of its charter with a procession along Church Quay. Report.

Pfahl

League table, as published.

The League of 1920 was won by Marschau Garrison. Full table.

Marschau Garrison142
Tarnmund Lake133
Hollstadt Workers124
Reedside Athletic97
Kessel Iron88
Grauburg Fortress610
Vellmar Wardens412
Ostrabruck Bridge412
Norrwick Printers214

Correspondence

Sir, — Is it too much to ask that the clocks at Brennholt should agree with one another? Yours, An Old Subscriber.

Notices

Wanted: boy for the office. Ostra Valley Line, Salzhafen.

To let: room, Vellmar, 14.02 marka month. Box at this office.

Found, a dog, Lindenmar. Apply this office.

Printed and published at Vellmar by The Schwartzistan Herald. Registered under the Press Act. Casualty figures as published by the War Ministry.

From the Herald's digitised archive. Page images reproduced as printed; the text is searchable. Dates as recorded by the Ministry of Chronology.