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Newspaper
Reading Eagle
Location
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1869
Page
3
Instructions describe applying paratizing to breweries’ casks to seal them and avoid mustiness or acidity. Methods include heating and coating with melted paraffin, inserting pipe plugs to pressurize, or jetting melted paraffin to fill pores. Evaporation or gas escape is prevented, keeping empty casks secure from thieves amid reports from Pennsylvania and Washington.
A fragmented Reading area column describes local incidents and notices. It mentions a horse and wagon collision near a depot, a man fined for intoxication, a women’s concert crowding, and various society meetings and events. It notes a punitive message about velocipedes and advice to buy caution.
Fragmented prose merges a reflection on confidence as strength with civic business. The piece references public virtue, then shifts to appointments for Water Commissioners David A. Stout and Thomas L. Addison for four years, followed by a list of church and mission postings and local officers across various townships and communities.
A series of distressing incidents reported: Dr Schogper committed for trial in Carlsaie for poisoning Miss Steinecke. Henry E Chamberlain, 45, hanged himself in Akron Ohio. A boiler explosion near Vallville Indiana injures several and sinks a steamboat Peoria City. Allerton School House in Jipley Pa blown down. only a teacher and two children unharmed. National Bank of Philadelphia and William R Brown Co of Toronto suspended amid executive defections. Severe snow storms hit Canada from Windsor to Quebec with four feet of accumulation. New York and northern regions also affected.
Fragmented OCR text mentions a governor, volunteers, a capital area, a war context, and references to Spanish army around a location. It blends disjointed phrases, likely describing a historical battle scene with crowds, movements, and disturbances. The exact events, dates, and entities remain unclear due to garbled OCR.
Fragmentary record shows actions by the United Brothers Mutual Aid Society of Pennsylvania and Berks officials. A law judge was proposed for the Twenty third Judicial district and details are obscured by OCR errors but indicate passing considerations and incorporation mentions.
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