Established as a "leading daily newspaper", it was one of the last to still be setting type by hand in 1900.

Rather different is the question of the other processes between setting type and going to press.

Better him than a boy whose only crime was setting type for an abolitionist newspaper.

He couldn't read, but could set type at three times my poor speed, and was always covered in ink up to his elbows.

But he could set perfectly justified type at the rate of a hundred and sixty words a minute.

He began to set type at the age of 12.

In May 1902, a linotype machine to set type was introduced.

Samuel was a newspaper publisher, and Harry learned to set type at an early age.

He would sometimes write without using any sort of manuscript, simply setting type as he wrote.

As the time passed, he had come to set type for the little revolutionary sheet they published weekly.