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Show SPEED RECORD BY SOUTHERN PRINTER ! Sl'MTER. S. C, Keb. 4 Makinc a 1 npeed record on a sixteen-) ear-old ! linotype that had seen continuous erv-ice, erv-ice, part time in day and night Khifia. i was the unique achievement of Frank Pat ton, machinist operator of the Sum I ter Daily Item In winding up the old i year. I'atton's performance cons:Htd of nettinjc 3114 lines of seven point ; type. 13 ems, on an eight point sluic. ; in a few minutes les than six houra. ; or an average of &19 lines an hour, on an old model No. 3 linotype, erected in 1904. There was no rat or pickups of any sort in the copy, which "run . of-hook," consisting of local news, A- aociated Presji pony report, correspondence correspond-ence and repnnt, part of it typewritten and part of it In handwriting. Typesetting Type-setting experts have claused Paiton as among the first three speeders of the entire country, aa his hourly average figures in company wiih the be?u speed records ever made in this country over a period of several hours, and especially i in seven point composition. |