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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Ilaine who wrote (30812)7/3/1999 7:47:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
I hand-set type for a weekly newspaper for over a year. A big sloped wooden case, a handheld typeholder, backward setting (easy for me, I started off mirror writing,) hand justifying, transferring to the pageforms on a block, distributing type, sorting pie, setting bogus (you know setting bogus or were you in a scab shop -- hmm -- Tulane sounds like a scab shop to me) etc. My great grandfather was a master typographer -- could carve matrices, cut and cast type (like B. Franklin). A wandering alcoholic he worked from town to town as he felt like it, but could always get a job because he was fast and had an ITU card.
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