City officials unearthed a piece of history Monday when they discovered an old 1,100-pound Linotype machine in the vacant Higginbotham Printing building that was demolished by city crews on Moore ...

BLUFORD, Ill. -- Before his retirement, Dean Nayes of Bluford crisscrossed the nation as a Linotype operator. During his career, he was employed by more than 80 newspapers, ranging from The Hill City ...

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 ...

Margaret E. Steuer (1874-1952) cracked the male stronghold of The Berkshire Eagle’s composition department in 1891 when she sat to set type by hand. The newspaper then was an eight-page weekly. Three ...

LOWELL — Francis L. “Deke” Descoteaux, 88, a Lowell resident who was a retired linotype operator for a local printing company and a World War II veteran, died Sunday morning, Aug. 14, at Lowell ...

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 ...

As a backup Linotype operator, I felt much like a church organist, the grand machine above and surrounding me. The large keyboard was different from the typewriter, and efficient. Lower-case keys on ...