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The Line The front line is at the Reed Line. No change. Latest reports
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Vellmar today: bright, coldPrice 290 pfen

The Schwartzistan Herald

Wasserdorf Motor Works is wound up

Wasserdorf, 14 March 2019

Wasserdorf Motor Works is wound up. Wasserdorf.

Reported from Wasserdorf. Wasserdorf Motor Works is wound up. 389 jobs are lost at Wasserdorf. a peat cutter on his way home, asked for a view, offered none.

The company's books are kept at Wasserdorf and may be inspected by shareholders on application at the registered office between 9 and 4 o'clock.

Concerning: Wasserdorf Motor Works.

Piped water reaches Mill Way, Hochstadt

Hochstadt, 15 March 2019

Piped water reaches Mill Way, Hochstadt. The old pump is retained by public request. The parish officers attended at about half past 10. Speaking to this journal, the landlord of the inn said: 'The clerk wrote it all down; you may ask him.'

Concerning: Hochstadt, Mill Way.

A cart overturns in Salt Gate, Oberbach

Oberbach, 13 March 2019

A cart overturns in Salt Gate, Oberbach. The driver, a man of Grauburg, is taken to hospital. Speaking to this journal, a schoolmaster who happened to be passing said: 'It was over before the bell had done ringing.' The Herald will follow the matter.

Concerning: Oberbach, Salt Gate.

Casualty Roll as published by the War Ministry

No roll this week.

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

The Assembly

15 March 2019. The Road Traffic Regulation Act passed. Passed by the Assembly by 41 votes to 7. Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 1490 marka. Comes into force on 1 January 2020. Final reading, without incident.

The Grand Chancellor, Renate Brenn, has held office since 14 February 2014.

The Courts

The Regional Court of The Sudmark, 13 March 2019. The Crown v. Mossbach. Concerning theft of reed bundles. Ruling: 11 months. The gallery was thin.

The Regional Court of Kesselhöh, 10 March 2019. Rabe v. Wolter. Concerning the reckoning of a lease spanning the removed year. Ruling: lease shortened by one year under the Continuity Act. Judgment when the court resumed after the midday adjournment.

The Regional Court of Westgau, 10 March 2019. Steirut v. Daffer. Concerning smoke from a tannery at Hagenkirchen. Ruling: dismissed. The court rose shortly after noon.

The Regional Court of The Sudmark, 9 March 2019. The Crown v. Mundlasek. Concerning theft of forty barrels of wine. Ruling: bound over. Judgment at ten in the forenoon.

The Market

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

Bread, the loaf, 580.4 pfen; beer, the litre, 870.6 pfen. A labourer's day is paid at 117.11 marka; a furnished room lets at 409.88 marka the month. The Exchange index closed the year at 37,682.60. Bank rate stands at 3.66 per cent.

The War Appropriation for the year, 238,904,729 marka, passed the Assembly without a dissenting voice.

Registers

National Archive weekly return: Recorded this week throughout the country: 131 births, 85 marriages, 167 deaths. Population at the last return, 718,440.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

On This Day

From the archive.

214 years ago. A storm strips roofs in Vellhausen and fells the old lime in Reed Street. Report.

212 years ago. The harvest at Kessel is reported poor. Grain is 2 pfen the measure. Report.

Pfahl

Pfahl League, final table:

The League of 2018 was won by Grauburg Fortress. Full table.

Grauburg Fortress193
Weinfeld Vintners166
Norrwick Printers148
Altstadt Pfahl Club148
Hollstadt Workers139
Reedside Athletic1111
Kessel Iron1012
Vellmar Wardens1012
Tarnmund Lake913
Marschau Garrison715
Ostrabruck Bridge517
Brennholt Farmers418

Correspondence

Sir, — Your report from Wasserdorf was accurate and I am grateful for it. The district office has been told; it has been told before. A Reader of Grautal.

Notices

Vacancies: Sudholt Electric Company, electrics, Sudholt.

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

Found: wallet, Hollhausen.

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.