On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:14:49 -0500, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@...> wrote:

[nb]

>> The press was one of the time-tested and honorable designs -- Round ink
>> plate[n?] on top, spring-loaded ink rollers moving up and down on a pair

[...]

> It had a _MOTOR_???

Gosh, maybe not! Possibly a treadle. I was about 12 y.o. then; I'll be 70,
soon.

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
Lack of decency about New Orleans' future:
<http://tinyurl.com/8eqx5> (politics, too)
That should redirect to an article by Mike Tidwell.