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Digitised edition Saturday 31 March 2012 Page 1 of 1 ‹ Previous issueWhole issueNext issue ›

Vellmar today: overcastPrice 254 pfen

The Schwartzistan Herald

A wireless set is installed in the town hall at Berging so that the evening bulletin may be heard in public

Berging, 31 March 2012

A wireless set is installed in the town hall at Berging so that the evening bulletin may be heard in public. Berging.

A wireless set is installed in the town hall at Berging so that the evening bulletin may be heard in public. a crowd which the constable declined to estimate gathered in the street and dispersed shortly before the evening bell, the ford being passable. Speaking to this journal, the landlord of the inn said: 'The clerk wrote it all down; you may ask him.'

By the next morning Berging had returned to its ordinary business, the roads being dry for the season. A schoolmaster who happened to be passing said the town had seen the like before and would see it again.

Concerning: Berging, Market Walk.

Piped water reaches Short Row, Reedtal

Reedtal, 30 March 2012

Reedtal: Piped water reaches Short Row, Reedtal. The old pump is retained by public request. The matter was the only talk at the inn that evening. Readers in Reedtal may send their accounts to the usual address.

Concerning: Reedtal, Short Row.

Casualty Roll as published by the War Ministry

PrivateMartin Vetter, of WeinwickThe 4th Marsh Regimentenemy fire26 March 2012

Roll as issued by the Ministry.

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

The Assembly

The Assembly did not sit this week.

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

The Courts

The Regional Court of The Capital District, 30 March 2012. The Crown v. Pikschir. Concerning theft of church bells. Ruling: acquitted. The court rose at half past 3 in the afternoon.

The Market

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

Bread, the loaf, 507.1 pfen; beer, the litre, 760.6 pfen. A labourer's day is paid at 97.21 marka; a furnished room lets at 340.23 marka the month. The Exchange index closed the year at 56,451.80. Bank rate stands at 4.64 per cent.

The War Appropriation for the year, 204,871,012 marka, passed the Assembly without a dissenting voice.

Registers

National Archive weekly return: Recorded this week throughout the country: 183 births, 102 marriages, 151 deaths. Population at the last return, 719,904.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

On This Day

On this day in the Herald.

205 years ago. A cart overturns in Lime Square, Hollstadt. The driver, a man of Brennholt, is taken to hospital. Report.

204 years ago. The spring fair opens at Hollstadt. 300 head of cattle change hands. Prices are described as firm. Report.

Pfahl

Final standings:

The League of 2011 was won by Altstadt Pfahl Club. Full table.

Altstadt Pfahl Club175
Grauburg Fortress157
Weinfeld Vintners148
Hollstadt Workers139
Norrwick Printers139
Vellmar Wardens139
Kessel Iron1210
Reedside Athletic913
Marschau Garrison814
Ostrabruck Bridge814
Tarnmund Lake616
Brennholt Farmers418

Correspondence

Sir, — The Herald gives bread at 507.1 pfen the loaf. Not in Sudholt it isn't. Paterfamilias, Weinfeld.

Notices

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

For sale: electric fittings, lamps and wiring. Sudholt Electric Company, Sudholt.

Lost: dog, Berging. 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.