SAGUACHE — In southern Colorado, Dean Coombs operates the last linotype newspaper, fighting with and fixing up the the century old typesetting machine everyday in order to put out his family's paper ...
The Saguache Crescent’s masthead is cast from lead in a process that allows it to survive a year of printing. Rob Hammer A mechanical ruckus. Oiled metal clattering hard and loose. A room astounding ...
The last linotype machine newspaper in America is the Saguache Crescent in Saguache, Colorado. It’s a story worth printing, although publisher Dean Combs doesn’t need to. News outlets from around the ...
Albert Velasquez grew up hunting raccoons on the Pecos River during the Great Depression. In high school, he learned to operate a linotype machine, a 19th-century invention for printing newspapers.
We have a fascinating old machine that needs a new home. We have been cleaning up in preparation for our return to work in our offices, and we no longer have room for a piece of newspaper history that ...
When Jessie Winters moved to Las Cruces with her family in the 1960s, she would set aside her nomadic life and establish a home for the rest of her 100 years. Winters celebrated 10 decades on June 27 ...
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The old type-setting machine I wrote about a few weeks ago drew more comments than I ever would have imagined. After all, the Linotype machine, manufactured by the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. of New ...
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