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Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Death notices Presidents
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Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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ave left himregretful. Today presses roar outnewspapers by the millions. Hun-dreds of publications of every kind jflood the news stands. Huge rollsof paper, vast vats of ink, tons of ;type, go into their making everyday. To Henry Bonns ears the roar ofthe presses is an unharmonlous bel-lowing. In his day printers did alltheir work by hand. They handledeach unit that went into the mak-ing of a publication. They werecraftsmen. But these days people think of Iprinting only in terms of machineryand speed. Sometimes, said Bonn, and hiseyes sparkled with indignation,folks come In and tell me to hurryup a job, and I tell them to get outof the shop. Such heresy, indeed, is enough foran old printer to Invoke the namesof Hulett, and Harrison, and Strong,and James, and Fitch, and Korizek.They were all newspapermen of theold school. They not only wrotetheir papers; they helped put theminto type. Alas, if they could butknow, sighs Bonn, how the businesshas degenerated. Regrets Passing of Old Press
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One of the oldest active printers in Wisconsin, Henry Bonn, SO,works every day in his little shop on Main street in Racine, Wis.A newspaperman of the old school, when editors not only wrote theircopy but set it up In type themselves and pulled it off the press,Bonn is still a tiny bit bewildered and not a little annoyed by thepresent era of thundering presses, speedy news transmittal, and effi-cient organization of the newspaper business. One of Bonns earlyduties as a combination cub and printers devil was to write and setthe announcement of Lincolns assassination. LINCOLNS MURDERNOT PAGET NEWS Quicker and Better Presentation Marks Modern Handling of Roosevelt Attack i5 â¢-3 M PUBLIC ONCE HAD TO WAIT BY LAURA LEE AN attempted assassination ofPresident-elect Roosevelt onthe evening of Wednesday,February 15. Within a matter of minutes, factsabout the shooting, quickly assem-bled by newspaper men, were broad-cast over the country by radio. The morning newspapers carriedstreamline headsâ

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