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The Schwartzistan Herald

Moor Brewery is wound up

Tarnmoor, 24 August 1985

Moor Brewery is wound up. Tarnmoor.

By our correspondent in Tarnmoor. Moor Brewery is wound up. 837 jobs are lost at Tarnmoor. a schoolmaster who happened to be passing, asked for a view, offered none.

Those in the trade at Tarnmoor spoke of the matter without surprise. The keeper of the toll-house observed that a counting-house is a counting-house whoever's name is over the door.

Concerning: Moor Brewery.

Casualty Roll as published by the War Ministry

PrivateUwe Kolm, of HollstadtThe 3rd Marsh Regimentenemy action21 August 1985

Roll as issued. Next of kin informed.

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

The Assembly

The Assembly did not sit.

The Grand Chancellor, Andrea Wendl, has held office since 14 February 1979.

The Courts

The Court of Chronological Offences, 21 August 1985. The Crown v. M. K.. Concerning possession of a clock face with an unlicensed year. Ruling: fined 1537 marka. Judgment was delivered when the court resumed after the midday adjournment.

The Regional Court of The Sudmark, 24 August 1985. The Crown v. Brack. Concerning smuggling salt across the Sudmark. Ruling: fined 23063 marka. The parties left by separate doors.

The Regional Court of The Sudmark, 22 August 1985. The Crown v. Isker. Concerning desertion from the Marsh Regiments. Ruling: acquitted: he was lost in the fog. Judgment was delivered shortly after noon.

The Regional Court of The Sudmark, 21 August 1985. The Crown v. Vutwitz. Concerning smuggling salt across the Sudmark. Ruling: 17 months. Judgment was delivered at half past 4 in the afternoon.

The Regional Court of Westgau, 21 August 1985. Kracher v. Tarn. Concerning smoke from a tannery at Hochstadt. Ruling: injunction granted. Judgment was delivered at ten in the forenoon.

The Market

Trading was brisk on the Exchange this week. Published prices in the capital:

Bread, the loaf, 307.5 pfen; beer, the litre, 461.3 pfen. A labourer's day is paid at 49.9 marka; a furnished room lets at 174.64 marka the month. The Exchange index closed the year at 30,541.60. Bank rate stands at 6.07 per cent.

The War Appropriation for the year, 110,422,307 marka, passed the Assembly without a dissenting voice.

Registers

National Archive, weekly return: Recorded this week throughout the country: 189 births, 108 marriages, 172 deaths. Population at the last return, 691,192.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

Deaths

Emma Fenn, farm labourer, born at Weinau on 27 August 1899, died 27 August 1985. Member of the Assembly. Late of Weinau, where the deceased worked as a farm labourer for many years. Donations in lieu of flowers to the regimental fund.

On This Day

From the archive.

177 years ago. A fire in Long Quay at Sanding destroys 8 houses. The town watch attend. No lives are lost. Report.

176 years ago. A cart overturns in Salt Gate, Oberbach. The driver, a man of Reedtal, is taken to hospital. Report.

Pfahl

The League table at the close of the season:

The League of 1984 was won by Altstadt Pfahl Club. Full table.

Altstadt Pfahl Club175
Tarnmund Lake175
Norrwick Printers148
Hollstadt Workers148
Grauburg Fortress148
Marschau Garrison148
Vellmar Wardens1111
Weinfeld Vintners913
Brennholt Farmers616
Reedside Athletic616
Ostrabruck Bridge616
Kessel Iron418

Correspondence

Sir, — Your report on Tarnmoor was fair, if brief. Those of us who live there would add only that the matter had been raised with the district office more than once. Yours, A Reader.

Notices

Zum Harbour, Kessel, seek a technician. Apply in writing to the office.

Room to let, Tarnmoor, 174.64 marka a month.

Lost: cat, Tarnmoor. Reward.

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.