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Vellmar today: frostPrice 234 pfen

The Schwartzistan Herald

Grautal Dye Company lists on the Vellmar Exchange as TLZ

Vellmar, 26 February 2008

Grautal Dye Company lists on the Vellmar Exchange as TLZ. Vellmar.

Grautal Dye Company lists on the Vellmar Exchange as TLZ. The listing was read out on the floor of the Exchange in the customary form and the brokers proceeded to business. Related reports are linked below.

Those in the trade at Vellmar spoke of the matter with some satisfaction. A woman selling eels at the corner observed that a counting-house is a counting-house whoever's name is over the door.

Concerning: The Vellmar Exchange, Grautal Dye Company.

The telegraph reaches Vellmar

Vellmar, 26 February 2008

By our staff in Vellmar. The telegraph reaches Vellmar. The first message sent is the front-line report. One witness, a retired sergeant of the Marsh Regiments, gave the following account: 'Nobody wanted to be the first to say anything.'

Concerning: Vellmar, Garrison Street.

The telegraph reaches Tarnmoor

Tarnmoor, 23 February 2008

By our staff in Tarnmoor. The telegraph reaches Tarnmoor. The first message sent is the front-line report. The roads about Tarnmoor were heavy at the time. Readers in Tarnmoor may send their accounts to the usual address.

Concerning: Tarnmoor, Long Way.

Casualty Roll as published by the War Ministry

PrivateTheo Brenn, of WeinfeldThe 6th (Reserve) Marsh Regimentenemy action24 February 2008

Roll as issued by the Ministry.

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

The Assembly

The Assembly was not sitting.

The Grand Chancellor, Uwe Jann, has held office since 14 February 2007.

The Courts

The High Court, 27 February 2008. Reinholt v. Rademann. Concerning a contract for forty barrels of wine not delivered. Ruling: for the defendant. Judgment late in the afternoon sitting.

The Regional Court of Westgau, 28 February 2008. Dorn v. Ziler. Concerning a contract for iron rails not delivered. Ruling: damages of 35064 marka. The gallery was thin.

The Regional Court of The Osmoor, 27 February 2008. The Crown v. Marsch. Concerning theft of twelve mules. Ruling: bound over. The gallery was thin.

The Regional Court of Norrfeld, 25 February 2008. The Crown v. Ziegler. Concerning desertion from the Marsh Regiments. Ruling: returned to the regiment. The court rose at half past 3 in the afternoon.

The Market

Markets: a quiet week on the Exchange. Published prices in the capital:

Bread, the loaf, 467.5 pfen; beer, the litre, 701.3 pfen. A labourer's day is paid at 87.32 marka; a furnished room lets at 305.64 marka the month. The Exchange index closed the year at 50,172.80. Bank rate stands at 3.81 per cent.

The War Appropriation for the year, 186,709,685 marka, passed the Assembly without a dissenting voice.

Registers

National Archive weekly return: Recorded this week throughout the country: 176 births, 93 marriages, 171 deaths. Population at the last return, 718,915.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

On This Day

On this day in the Herald.

201 years ago. The Ostra rises 50 centimetres above its mark at Hagenkirchen. Cellars in Low Street are flooded. Report.

201 years ago. A new bridge is opened at Kessel by the Minister of the Interior. It has 5 arches. Report.

Pfahl

Pfahl League, final table:

The League of 2007 was won by Grauburg Fortress. Full table.

Grauburg Fortress184
Hollstadt Workers175
Altstadt Pfahl Club157
Norrwick Printers139
Reedside Athletic139
Vellmar Wardens1210
Kessel Iron1111
Weinfeld Vintners1012
Tarnmund Lake814
Marschau Garrison715
Brennholt Farmers517
Ostrabruck Bridge319

Correspondence

Sir, — The Herald gives bread at 467.5 pfen the loaf. Not in Sudholt it isn't. Paterfamilias, Vellmar.

Notices

Zum Harbour (Kessel) are recruiting. Details at the office.

For sale, sofa, Vellmar.

Found: phone, Vellmar.

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.