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SODA  WATER
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$25 REWARD

FOR proof to convict ant person of trafficking in the following described Bottles:
     Having recently, at a great expense, gotten up an entire new sett (sic) of moulds in which my

SODA WATER, PHILADELPHIA PORTER
AND ALE BOTTLES.

are made. Each of those Bottles have my name and the year 1866 blown in the glass.  The mould being my private property no person can purchase bottles made in them.  I neither sell nor give away any of those Bottles.

NO OTHER PERSON HAS A RIGHT TO
DO SO.

    I simply lend them to those who purchase the contents with the understanding that they are to be returned to me when empty.
    This is well understood by all, yet many, regardless of their obligations, frequently lend or sell those bottles with Soda Water or other liquids, thereby depriving me of my property and subjecting me to losses which are unjust and unlawful.
    Those Bottles are now very expensive, rendered more so by the Patent Cork Fastener attached to and lost with every bottle which I lose, together with the many taxes imposed upon this species of business, the most oppressive of which is a direct tax of six per cent. to the Government on gross sales of Soda or Mineral Water, which reduces my profits so much that it is impossible, at present prices, to submit to the loss of my Bottles, and I do hereby caution all persons against buying, selling, filling, with liquids, or in any manner depriving me of the use of said Bottles.
                                                                                                                             JOHN RYAN,
                                                                                          Soda Water Bottling Establishment,
                                                                      Southwest corner of Bay and West Broad streets.