Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1911 — A “PLATINUM” PRESS! OH, GEE! [ARTICLE]

A “PLATINUM” PRESS! OH, GEE!

The Republican printed in its daily issue that we couldn’t do the high school annual on either our “platinum” or newspaper press, but Jim McEwan hastened over to them and informed the bunch of editors and printers that there w r as no platinum presses made; that it was “platen” instead of platinum, and the word was changed to platen in the weekly issue. What an intelligent lot they are down there anyway. Another amusing thing in connection with the letting of the contract for this high school annual. Negotiations were pending with editor Foote of Attica to sell him the old style Meihle “half-tone” (?) press that was thrown out of the government printing office as worn out several years ago, and had not editor Foote died the deal would no doubt have gond through. If it had, we presume the Republican would have printed the annual on its “platinum” or newspaper press. Or, perhaps, it would have gone over to McEwan and had him print it on his “halftone” Campbell, brought over from England on the Santa Maria in 1492.