Word: press
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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First Printing Press in the Colony...
Following '87 came "The oldest printing press in the colony," loaned by the Boston Globe. It was in charge of Messrs. Storrow and Elgutter, '87, the former representing a primitive Hollander with a long clay pipe, and the latter, a regulation Indian. Two men dressed from head to foot in red and adorned with long tails - printer's devils - kept the old press in operation, and from time to time distributed to the crowd fac-simile copies of the title page of Eliot's Indian Bible, with two little verses on the back, said to have been composed...
...appropriate, the representatives of the College Press followed this symbol of their handicraft. The CRIMSON led the van in the following order...
...prominent from the tree is gone. These touching scenes are labeled respectively 'Malum Prohibitum" and "Malum in Se." On the reverse of this ingenious transparency was a silhouette of a gentleman embracing a girl, with the two mottoes, "Inter armas leges et silentes," and "No law forbids the associated press...
First Printing Press in the United States...