1908 - Caboose on the Jump

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On 2/8/08, Roger wrote:

>

> Don,

>    I should have mentioned that the last sentence was as printed in the

> paper. Does appear that something was lost by the time it got printed. For

> the curious, I attached a gif file of this section of article. This is the

> typical quality of print these newspaper clippings are transcribed from.

>

>    I don't know much about newspaper technology, but assume that in 1908

> they was still using lead type hand set?

>

>

The Linotype machine was invented around 1886, so someone sitting at a
keyboard would have been converting the written story into type for print.
Between the reporter, editor, and Linotype operator, something may have
gotten munged, leading to the lost words. It could also be that all went
well, but one slug of type didn't make it into the galley.

Bruce in Blacksburg (who used to sling type for a Multigraph machine, into
addition to doing my share of phototypesetting)
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