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Newspaper
Reading Eagle
Location
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1869
Page
3
Notices cover cemetery trustees elections at Austenberg, farm sales in Oley township, and market practices. Knights of Pythias membership surges and ritual changes. Odd Fellows prepare for Philadelphia parade. Susquehanna nail works suspend. rail freight dull. peach buds swelling with frost risk. Order of United American Mechanics expands in Pennsylvania. Schuylkill Canal traffic and coal prospects noted.
The Liberty plans to take about one hundred equipped men to Trenton for its city visit, while the Washington Hoss Company will send about thirty men to the Inauguration.
A new organ built by Samuel Vohler of Reading for Fitch Street Methodist Church features two manuals 66 notes pedalboard 18 notes 32 stops and couplers. It will be opened next Wednesday evening with overtures solos and ensembles by H. G. Thunder and performers including Caroline McCaffrey and Miss Settie Alexander.
Second Edition reports a small red dray drawing attention in Penn Street. It lacked protection, risking a tumble as a flimsy vehicle used for breaking horses, sparking jokes about a Grant triumphal car. Also notes a May 2 event at the Athena Society of Pennsylvania Female College in Collegeville with music and recitations.
A historical account laments hillside quarrying and tree removal on Mount Penn near Reading. It notes crest erosion from 10 feet and forests felled, with new buildings rising at Sickert & Co. amid continued city growth and a call to preserve the panorama for public health and beauty.
The letter from Shoemakerville notes changeable weather and price shifts for sugar and calico. Captain Thomas Moyer led the first boat to Leesport for pig iron. an accident near H K Millers store involved Boar’s horse and a servant, no one hurt. A Grand Exhibition trip to Albany failed and may be lost in the mountains. In Kutztown three burglars allegedly stole coats and knives valued at about $50. arrests not yet reported.
On Wednesday evening Daniel Setler of Kutztown loaded a gun to shoot a wild goose on a pond near the borough. The gun misfired, killing him. a bullet also struck a boy, while a mule bore the weight of the event. Full details to follow from reporter Will. Also notes on tax payments and Reading Teachers Institute meeting at the High School this evening with Miss Beckie F. Bell presiding.
Auctioneers sold 84 acres on Mount Penn west slope for 25000 to Iyshong Morkle and Co. Bitkerries. Prof John A Stewart lecture well attended last night. Snow six inches at 1 A M. Velocipedes for funerals fail. Blind Tom opens in Harrisburg tomorrow. Surgeons and tailors show interest in velocipede mania. Lodge 425 A Y Mu to be constituted March 1 in this city.
Mr. Dawes declines to run for Speaker. Mr. Blaine favored. New York House tabled repeal Tenure of Office Act. Minnesota House agrees to move state capital. Governor to veto. Governor Brownlow resigns before Tennessee Legislature. Spanish warship near Key West monitors Peru. Poisoned liquor at Alton ball causes deaths. Morgantown skiff disappearance likely drowning. No jury for Grant trial. panels ordered from Alexandria and Norfolk. Cleveland fire causes $20,000 loss. fireman mortally injured. Two New Orleans fires total $60,000. Minneapolis County Treasurer’s office robbed of $1,500. Five men arrested in Jersey City for farmer robbery of $1,500. Counterfeit $5 bills circulating in New York. Will of Jonathan Burr leaves $300,000 to charities, $55,000 to relatives. Milwaukee suffrage convention signals rising agitation.
The Pennsylvania Senate on February 25, 1869, saw many petitions presented including several opposing ratification of a constitutional article. Bills reported or committed include 628 authorizing the State Treasurer to exchange registered bonds for coupon bonds and 632 a supplement to penal proceedings. The Attorney General’s letter affirms the 1866 tax repeal on real estate as constitutional.
A long session outlines multiple proposed acts and supplements including tax measures on distilled spirits petroleum coal and boom companies seeks more just transmission of real and personal estate and various court and arbitration reforms. Several bills were read and referred with adjournment to tomorrow morning.
The March number opens with an engraving In the Firelight and a fashion plate followed by Have an Hour too Early. It features extensive illustrations, literature by Nora Perry Florence Percy and Amanda M Douglas, editorials and fashion notes. Subscription details list prices and multiple copy offers.
The product named Vegetable Hair Restorative won the First Premium over all competitors at the New Hampshire State Fair. Reportedly, it stood without a rival throughout the country, outperforming other preparations on the market as noted by the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Advertisement offers a 17 or 18 year old to learn the drug trade with a two year apprenticeship. Interested parties asked to contact Neintzalmans Pharmacy at Tenth and Ogden in Philadelphia. includes a reward for information regarding a draft drawn on Jacob H. Relver.
An advertisement promotes Dexratis Rumepy Even Yaun a positive cure for youth related diseases. Claims two to four day cures using ten pills with no mineral content and no stomach distress. Sold by Harvey Birch Reading Pa and by Druggists. Desmond & Co Philadelphia. Also note sale of J Rodgers barber shop stock at 26 Penn Street Reading.
An ad claims volcano like ills originate in the body and promises relief by vitalizing blood with Sta Life Elements Lon PeruviAn Byrup. The patent remedy is described as a prosted solution of Protoxide of Iron that will strengthen and renew the entire system.
An OCR fragment shows a dubious announcement promoting “COSTAR’S” CORN SOLVENT and Erterminatars with patriotic warnings. It cites invented remedies, alleged numbers, and addresses in New York advertising dubious drug products.
Interim mail and stage routes extended to Union Station with Reading departures at 8 a.m. tri weekly, serving Cumry Gougleraville Adamstown Bedwarter ville Reamstown and Boyertown. Boyertown service departs 6 a.m. 6 leaves Reading 10 a.m. returns 2 p.m. arrives 7 p.m. Groups Tonersville Bruin fieldville Freshville Yellow Slunge Karlville and Boyerstown served. Bernvil ly line leaves Bernville Bethel 3 a.m. arrives Reading 10 a.m. returns 2 p.m. to Millersburg. Blue Ball line leaves Reading Mon Wed Fri 8 a.m. stage days Blue Ball Tuesday Thursday Saturday with 4 p.m. arrivals. Serves Mohn's Store Kangor's Bowmaras Muddy Crook Jerro Hill Weaver's Mill Blue Ball.
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