Our recent delve into news printing history with the Cossar has brought interest, new contacts and this gem from Colorado, USA.
It’s the story, told by CBS News reporter Barry Petersen,of the Saguache Crescent, of which Dean Coombs is all things… which means editor, proprietor, Linotype operator (and mechanic), pressman (on an 1915 sheetfed press) and delivery hand.
Intriguingly, he suggests there may not be another newspaper in the USA – and by his implication, the world – set on a Linotype, something we believe to be incorrect.
It’s a good news paper – “I don’t do bad news,” he says, “everyone knows that” – and with no kids, succession is in doubt. There’s a vacancy here for someone with an equal level of commitment, since Coombs says, “I don’t know anyone I dislike enough to give the Crescent to.”
The video was posted by Gold Coast (Queensland) mechanic George Finn on the Metaltype.co.uk forum site (to whom, thanks for bringing it to our attention).
Our Cossar Tales feature – replete with video links of its own – is continuing to click away and attracting the interest of those outside the news industry even. See it here.
Pictures here courtesy of CBS News