Typesetters retyped articles to create lines of metal lettering (From Bucks Free Press)
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Typesetters retyped articles to create lines of metal lettering
2:06pm Monday 14th July 2003 in
TYPESETTERS had to retype articles and adverts into huge mechanical typewriters, creating lines of type in metal.
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