A Brief History of the Newspaper Industry

As a copy boy, I was called a wire roomand it had about 20 teletype machines from the associated press. The people who composed the words had powerful abilities to express thoughts and inquiry. We would take edited copy one story up from the newsroom, through a hole in the ceiling, a kind of man hole, to the composing room where the linotype operators were. Each page of the paper was set in type. So there was constant clacking of these machines.