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The Saguache Crescent is the last hot metal newspaper in the United States

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The last hot metal newspaper in the United States

by Chuck Green at ideabook.com

The Saguache Crescent is published weekly in Saguache, Colorado by its modern day editor, Dean Coombs. Coomb’s family took over the paper in 1917 from Otto Mears who had been publishing it since 1874.

What makes the story unusual is that it is published by a single person on a Linotype Typesetting Machine, vintage 1921.

At the end of the CBS Sunday Morning piece (second link down) the reported concludes, “Dean has no children, so he’s keeping an eye out for someone willing to edit, print, set type, repair machinery, make deliveries, and then be the janitor that sweeps the floor.”

This is the Great Big Story page…

From CBS Sunday Morning…

Interested in the history of the Linotype Typesetting Machine? Here’s the official trailer for Linotype: The Film…

This article from the Baltimore Sun features a collection of images shot by Justin Sullivan for Getty Images…

The last newspaper using hot metal typesetting

The Saguache Crescent…

Thanks to Chris Miller for pointing us to the story.

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