Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-01-19

Being Complete and Authentic History of the
Art of Printing from the Time of the Invention
of Movable Types to the Present Day. with
Sdeights by the Author.


For hundreds of years after the invention printing from
methods used to produce the printed Moveable types
have been the goal sought and when this became reality
had been reach
In those days men were not appreneed the printing
trade until they had passed rigid examinations to their fitness
the profession called One must be endow
ed with high education something akin to professor of Eng
h before he accepted apprentice knowledge of
astronomy of the requirements Thus men generally
are considered as being no longer useful and are discarded for
younger who hit Veler But in those days
printer prineran artita professional gentleman, and
the art of printing recognized of the things
proud to have accomplished
back for three bundled and observe the old timers
work Serous-faced old sitting hree legged stools
picking up type of cudey made cases and setting them
in sticks made of wood regulated to any the work
hand called for by series of wooden pegs and finally tying tup
in forms with heavy wne to keep from falling apart This
was the art of printing then.
Most any carpenter could make the these forms We're
printed Iron presses thought of and when printer
wanted to start shop of his own he thought of press
until he had first oS a % OF pe Which sa was made d
bullets for his deer rifle Having obtained the type and found
pd the building ,1 p e wh up to b
ALL but when finished produced of the finest samples of
art that could be wished for.
There weren't any paper mills in those days and all
paper made by hand Old linen furnished about the
trade know how grind up the into pulp beat into
thin layers and dry FOR printing paper not in
and when creased useful for that purpose Every print
shop had buyer who specialized in buying up old linen
wife took OF the picking part OF the business and was
very proficient at this part of the 'ait
Old Ben wrote book about his experiences printer in
Philadelphia and other places He was interested in lot OF
printing Offices and seemed to be kind of general organizer
walking delegate for the papers New England in the days
before the Revolution Among other things he says that money
those days. and that time he could
not collect enough money from his subscription list pay of
his printers and that lieu of the cold cash he persuaded the
printer accept section of land lying just outside the city linn
it's in payment for three months work. Money
that Ben accepted any useful thing in payment for his paper
Wood the most thing offered and Ben had much
wood hand that filled his back yard So when subscriber
paid for years subscription day with load of manure Ben
had to buy extra lot in order to have place to scatter the
fertilizer These the days of real sport the printing fra
temty
But times have changed since Ben Franklin quit the
printing game guy by the of Mergenthaer invented
newanged machine that sets type than used
get up hand and another fellow made press that would
print papers hour than all the presses in New England
would have printed month Huge paper mills turn out
paper in day used year the good old days and
while used to take week to get out dnkey little ourcomn
foupage paper thing huge editions of
from Ga to 28 printed daily and many papers get out as
But money seems to be as scarce now as was in Ben Frank
Inns time At it when is used to pay subscriptions
be much the custom money payment for adj
mission picture shows buy cigars and cigarettes and to
pocket but somehow other people have
acquired the habit of offering in exchange for subscription to
Tabor paper We not prepared the present time to handle
bles have done with the manufacture OF to the
that has become too to be commodity and about
the only thing think of at the pecent time would be the
hard cash. As in Ben day. printers have be paid and
do not sections of land with which hem
must devise other Then the other fellows who
known landlords and manufacturers of and quite
few useless mddemen have got to have theirs and they abs
ute refuse to take their wood They demand
coin of the realm they won't have anything to do with
So, fellows you how is The Review not be much
Of paper but 1t is here and Is trying to do ITS bit Tor the sake
otherwise would only just around to shop and de-
pos $780, would be counted being the happes
norals earth Think you in think of
the struggle Ben Franklin had and that the struggle is
hard today then In this your money the life
of The Review.