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Ink On Tickers

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
January
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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In every stook and news ticker is a little steel type wheel, from which the imprints are made. It is a costly piece of work, and when the tioker was first introduced the company controlling them was embarrassed to find that the ink used had such a corrosive effect that after a few days' use the wheel was worthless. By way of experiment one of the steel heels was placed in a bath of ink. In 24 hours it had disappeared entirely. An operator who has since become a reporter set to work and patented an ink which is now used in all tiokers. By its use the life of a type wheel is prolonged to nine years. The ink ia

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News