| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - According to Mrs. Snow, during the days of hot metal typesetting, when machines such as the linotype cast molten lead into letters and lines of type, newspaper companies would buy rejected headstones to hold the heavy frames, or ??chases,?? that held the slugs used to press ink onto paper.Mrs. Snow has just such a headstone from the Thousand Island Printing Company plant, which dates to 1901.
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