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garbage-empress:

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garbage-empress:

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tumblr does not want you to see this flier from 1890:

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Okay now that Tumblr finally let me post it, I found this amazing thing on Wikipedia. Some college kids in 1890 had to sit around a machine like this probably

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and type TURDS in a bunch of different fonts. And it made Indiana University faculty so mad they literally hired the \u201cStrike Worker Killing, Domestic Mercenary\u201d Pinkerton Detective Agency to find who made it. At some point in 1890, Pinkertons were hunting down someone for typing \u201cHere is a TURD! A sheeny TURD!\u201d And this is a real part of American history.

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Someone on WordPress transcribed the whole thing if you want to read it.

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That\u2019s a hot metal typesetting machine, where like you type T-R-E-E-[ENTER] and it would physically pour molten lead into molds and dump you out a solid slug reading \u201c\u01dd\u01dd\u0279\u0287\u201d to run on your press

Those were cutting edge in the 1890s, big-city newspapers woulda had them but students for a joke would have set cold type by hand and printed it on a platen jobbing press

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