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This Small-Town Newspaper Is the Last of Its Kind

Smithsonian Magazine: The “Saguache Crescent,” a weekly in a Colorado hamlet, still prints on the 19th-century technology known as linotype. A mechanical ruckus. Oiled metal clattering hard and loose. A room astounding in its clutter, alive with spinning gears, reciprocating arms, rattling chains. A single man at the controls, coaxing the steampunk contraption along. It’s publishing as an athletic act, all the more impressive for its medieval roots….”

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