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The Schwartzistan Herald · 5 February 1908

Gas lighting is installed in Salt Street, Wasserdorf

Wasserdorf, 5 February 1908

Gas lighting is installed in Salt Street, Wasserdorf. Residents complain of the smell and the brightness. A clerk who would not be named said: 'You could hear it in the next street.' Further details are awaited by wire.

By the next morning Wasserdorf had returned to its ordinary business, the roads being dry for the season. A woman selling eels at the corner said the town had seen the like before and would see it again.

Those concerned: Wasserdorf (location); Salt Street (street).

The Grand Chancellor, Gustav Marrow, has been informed.

Elsewhere in this issue: The Annual War Appropriation for 1908, 2,865,942 marka, passes the…

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