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Newspaper
Reading Daily Eagle
Location
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1868
Page
3
A Reading Pennsylvania column reports local incidents and happenings. Topics include minor accidents, civic chatter, market notes, social events, and brief notices from August 1868. Reading society details cover fires, police, court attendances, and community commentary with short anecdotes and local commerce updates.
The article reports on Mr. Carl Schurz addressing radicals in Reading, arguing conservative Republican views, currency standards, and the two party system. It mocks the crowd, notes language choices, and critiques money, debt, and suffrage, with additional brief local anecdotes about a watermelon mishap and a railroad trestle incident.
A marriage notice from Sinking Spring reports the union of Mr and Mrs Jones in a private residence. The event is described with formal ceremony details and mentions lead participants, with no further social or financial specifics provided.
Reading notices promote Dr Russell Magnetic Oil for rheumatism and neuralgia with prices 60 cents and 100 dollars per bottle. King's Vegetable Ambrosia claimed to restore gray hair, remove scalp humors. Da. Licut offers pure drugs and medicines, OTC toilet articles and cosmetic items at No 1 North Fifth.
A Reading community page notes the Passive Members meeting at Muennerchor Hall for tonight. Local incidents include Joseph Burk's arrest for drunken fighting at Sixth and Penn streets, and Frederick Shank's knee injury on a Washington Street job.
An 1868 will case in Berks County considers Tobias Clouser’s estate valued at around 40 000 with executors Daniel Clouser and Jesse Hawley. Contested by two sisters who argue lack of mental capacity at execution, witnesses describe Clouser’s clear business mind despite illness. The case documents his wife Diana to receive life income and set remainder to Tobias’s nephew with bequests to Mordecai, George Hay, and others.
The trial examined testamental capacity of Mr. Clouser with witnesses including Dr Penrose Wily and constable Weidenhammer. The jury returned a verdict upholding the will amid defense attempts to invalidate it. Other Berks cases followed, including mules disputed ownership and a breach of promise suit Maggie Loose versus George Rauden bush, with rulings and retrials noted.
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