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The main building may be high and dry, but College Drive has little protection from the Schuylkill River and Manatawny Creek in times of heavy rain. Administrators decided to close the Pottstown campus today and tomorrow. Exams have been rescheduled for Monday, July 3.

“It is scarcely necessary for us to make an apology to our readers for failing to issue our paper during the past week. Part of the time the Rebels had possession of the town, and of course it was then impossible to do anything in the office. We hope, however, to be able to do better in the future, and we feel certain that our subscribers will see at once that our apparent neglect of them was unavoidable.” (Gettysburg Republican Compiler, July 13, 1863, p.2)

The Penn State library has scans of original Civil War era Pennsylvania newspapers (including the Reading Eagle and the Philadelphia Press) available on its library website.

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/digital/newspapers/civilwar/

The pages are farily easy to navigate, the image quality is remarkable, and prints are much clearer than those from microfilm. The content (as you can see from the above blurb) speaks for itself.