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Catty Builds New Factory




Catty has built a new 3 line factory in Marseille. Catty hopes with this new facility, they can increase local production and maximize sales and profits in the region.


Shuvah Builds New Factory


Shuvah has built a new 29 line factory in Marseille. Shuvah hopes with this new facility, they can increase local production and maximize sales and profits in the region.


GCT Builds New Factory


GCT has built a new 15 line factory in Rotterdam. GCT hopes with this new facility, they can increase local production and maximize sales and profits in the region.


Hash Wins Columbus Police Force Contract!


Hash has won a $332,991 contract to supply project Columbus Police Force.


Car of the Year!


The Philadelphia-Brull 1964 Durack Alpine has won the annual GearCity Car of the Year award.

POLICEMAN IS SHOT DEAD BY FISH SALESMAN WHOM HE HANDED A SUMMONS


Victim, Douglas W. Hay, Was Walking Away From SceneWhen Michael Traviano Opened Fire on Him. Murderer Emptied One Revolver at Three Other Patrolmen Closing in on Him and used Another as They Shot Back.

Policeman Douglas W. Hay of the Gear City Station 7 observed Michael Traviano, a fish merchant, throw a handful of fish heads into the gutter in front of his stand. The policeman wrote out a summons for Travian to answer in court for violating sanitary laws and handed it to him. The policeman closed his summons book and turned away. Traviano whipped out a heavy revolver and fired it point-blank at the policeman's back. The street was busy. And witnesses saw Traviano shoot again. The officer was dead by the time he reached the hospital. Hay was forty years old and a policeman of seven years. Hay lived at 711 Clinton Avenue with his wife Anna and their two daughters, Lillian and Dalsnine.

The article continues on page 8.

CEOs Anonymous Oyster Supper Friday Evening


The CEOs Anonymous is making preparations for a special meeting on Friday evening of this week, and following this, the order will enjoy an oyster supper. There are about 168 members, and they are planning for a large affair.

4 Hurt Sunday In Two-Car Collision


Four persons were injured in a head-on accident between two cars in Hicktown early Sunday morning. Police report that both cars were totaled in the collision. And medical teams transported the wounded to the Semi-Serious Hospital of the Injured in Triage Town.

Are You a Farmer?


When a merchant fixes a price for his wares which allows him a profit above the cost, and then holds his goods on his shelves until somebody comes along and pays that price, we call that "good business." And we generally approve of that, but let a group of farmers do the same thing, it's pure speculation and hoarding, and everybody, from the man who parches peanuts to the banker and up, denounces him. The merchant who takes steps to get a fair price is a good, estimable citizen. The farmer who uses the best resources at his command, who tries to protect his wife and children and assure them a decent living, is a "vicious hoarder," a "profiteer," and maybe a "Bolshevik." Farmers, aren't you sick and tired of this silly stuff that the "knocker" is handing you. I hear something each day in Edgefield about the "organization" of farmers.

Continue this letter on page 34.

Stock Prices


Global Fuel Rate: 0.84

Philadelphia-Brull -- $112.59
NAD -- $62.20
GCT -- $131.09
Hursov -- $61.41
Blouist -- $103.82
Purr -- $83.33
Farm Hand -- $46.47
Shuvah -- $65.88
Blizsea -- $64.39
FLN -- $83.94
Heyho -- $62.92
Floggol -- $58.46
Curetellos -- $70.63
Steven Haul -- $29.48
NOA -- $31.18




Floggol Builds New Factory


Floggol has built a new 15 line factory in Rotterdam. Floggol hopes with this new facility, they can increase local production and maximize sales and profits in the region.


Gennats Wins Project Nahkhiir Contract!


Gennats has won a $11,438,171 contract to supply project Project Nahkhiir.


Steven Haul Wins Sydney Business Fleet Contract!


Steven Haul has won a $3,832,577 contract to supply project Sydney Business Fleet.