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Moi*o, Sherman County, O
Established 18S7
either the one-letter or two-letter
matrix can be used in the same ma
chine, and either character of the
two-letter matrix can be used at will.
The spaceband, which is used to
separate the word* in a line and at
Attorney-at-Law
the same time “justify” the line to
the end of the »lug consists of two
steel wedges. Ope is about the size
of and in form somewhat like a mat
rix the other is about 5 inches long.
Office Phone Main 93
The two are fastened together so
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Moro
that the long wedge will slide past
the short one. The short wedge has
two lugs at the tap which engage in
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grove* in the front am »ack jaw of
when pres-
the first elevator« so ti
sure i* applied to. U^« Irer end of
the wedge, the anbrt wedge is held
in position between the matrices,
and
as th« long wedge is forced up
Attorney-At-Law • I
ward, the thickness of the band or
space increases until the line is justi
Practice in All the Court*
fied to its full length.
of Oregon
The assembling mechanism is the
Phone
Main 541
only part of the Linotype where the
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human mind is applied to the work
of the machine. It is necessary for
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the eye to read the copy, and the
mind, through the medium of t^e
fingers, to translate the copy into
assembled lines of matrices; after
that the machine acts automatically.
The keyboard is made up of 90
With the issue of the Sherman County Observer keys, which act directly on the
DENTIST
this week and with a great deal of pride in the culmi matrices in their channels in the
magazine. The slightest touch on
nation of a hope long deferred, the publisher of the the
United Stale* Dentil Exam
buttons releases the matrix,
Sherman County Observer announces the installation which key drops
iner for thii district.
to the assembler ’ belt
of a new Model Five Linotype. This mechanical mar and is carried swiftly to the assem-
vel is especially equipped with the necessary type faces bier. When a word is assembled,
Office at
to enable this office to serve efficiently those readers the spaceband key is touched and a
assembler.
who depend upon our publication for enlightenment spaceband drops into the
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When the necessary matrices and
of the community happenings of Sherman county and spacebands to fill the line have been
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assembled, the operator raises the
ydWMWW^W****** man County Observer to inform our readers of busi assembler by pressing the lever on
ness news that would help them in ther purchase of the side of the keyboard. When the
assembler reaches its highest point
their daily requirements.
it automatically starts the machine
The Sherman County Observer has always aimed and the matrices ar- transferred to
Physician and Surgeon
to be able to keep its printing equipment up to the last the casting position ,
possible notch of efficiency to the end that our readers The casting mechanism consists oi
metal pot, mo!u disk, mold,
and advertisers would be adequately , served at ajl the
ejector, and trimmi :g knives. When
times. To that end the Sherman County Observer ’.j line of matrices leaves pie as-
Office and Residence
was the first newspaper to install power press equip ^mblcr, they pa*a to a position in.
ment in all that eastern Oregon district between The fron. of the mold disk. The disk
Hotel Moro
Dalles and Pendleton. The first power used in this makes on^-iuarter turn to the left,
W^VWWWW^A************ office was steam, later gas engine power was used1 and wLich t. ina 5 the mold from the
ejecting' position,* where it stands
in connection with the gas power was used electric while
the machine is at rest, to the
power supplied from the old city system. u Later, when casting posit ion/ It then advances
the Sherman Electric Company power lines were built until the face of the mol.l comes in
into our county we were the first to discard gas engine contact with the matrices. The
metal pot advance* until the pot
power for the present 24-hour electric service.
mouthpiece comes in contact with
Physician and Surgeon
For the last ten years and up to and including the back of the mold; at this point •
last week, the main portion of the Sherman _County the pump plunger descends and
the metal into the mold and
Observer has been composed upon a Unitype machine. forces
against the matrices, ^Tbe pot then
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So named because the operating idea of the machine recedes, the mold disk withdraws
was based upon the old hand-set system of single from the matrices and makes three-
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types which were used over .and over again. The fotfrths of a revolution to the left,
Model Five Linotype, with which the reading portion stopping at the ejecting position,
from which it started. The slug is
of 'the Sherman County Observer is composed this ejected
and assembled in the galley.
week, operates upon an entirely different principle.
During the last revolution of the
This machine casts its own type from brass matrices disk the bottom of the slug is trim
into lines of various lengths, thus the name Line-oL med offj and in the process of ejec
type, using melted metal. The heat to melt the metal tion the sides of tno slug are trim
Optometrist
so that when it drops into the
and the power to operate the Linotype is furnished by med,
galley the slug is a perfect line of
Spec!list in the examining of
the Sherman Electric Company.
type, ready for the form. After the
eye* and fitting of glasses.
slug has been cast, the matrices are
We
invite
anyone
to
come
in
and
watch
the
Lino
Lens grinding shop in
up ty the second position,
connection.
type operate. It is a most wonderful machine, intri carried
where they are pushed to the right,
Upstairs across from the
cate and yet very simple in its operation. The capac and the teeth in the V at the top
Edw. C. Pesse Co. stere
ity of the work that can be done upon the Linotype of the matrices engage the grooves
" and
' ' the ’ range of type ^aces that can e in the distributor bar of the second
Room 10, Vogt Bldg.
is unlimited
composed on the Linotype installed in the Sherman elevator, which descends from the
The Dalles, Ore.
box at the same time that
County Observer office run from a type face half the distributor
the matrices rise to the second trans
I size of this type you are now reading to type faces fer position. The second elevator
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two and a half times as large. * In addition we have then rises toward the distributor
I the choice of a very great variety of fancy letters, box, taking the matrices with it, but
the space hands; these are
initial letters, borders and decorative designs for ar- leaving
then pushed to the right and slide
tistic printing.
into the spaceband box, to be used’
Eyesight Specialists
again.
THE
MERGENTHALER
LINO
Manufaeturing Opticians
As the second elevator rises to-
of the assembling of the matrices
TYPE.
Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted
the entire operation is automatic.
ward the distributof box - with its
Exelosively Optical
A machine to set type was the
In form the Linotype is not like load < of matrices, the distributor
Complete Lens Manufacturing
dream of inventors from , the time any other machine. It is in reality shifter lever moves to the left until
Plant in Connection
when the printing business began to the assemblage of four distinct ma the elevator head ha* reached its
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assume a position of importance chines or parts, so arranged that place by the distributor box.
It
15-16 Vogt Block.
* among the trades. The original idea
they work in harmony—the maga then moves back to the right and
I I I I I ! H 4-1 ! i I I 1 I M I !■ I -i-W was that a machine must handle zine, the assembling mechanism, the pushes the matrice* off the second
type-founders’ type and compose it casting mechanism, and the dis elevator distributor bar into the dis
into lines with the help of one or tributing mechanism. The magazine tributor box, where they meet the
more operators. A number of ma is on top of the machine, sloping “matrix lift” and are lifted, one at
chines
were piade along this line. from back to front at an angle of 37 a time, to the distributor screws and
JAMES STEWART
One
of
these machines has been used degrees, arid consisting of two brass distributor bar proper. The teeth in
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in the office of the Sherman County plates placed together with a space the matrix and the. grooves in the
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Observer for ten years last past. of about 6-8 of an inch between. bar are so arranged that when a
Some were failures entirely, while a The two inner surfaces are cut with matrix arrives at a. point directly
INSPECTOR
few others were perfected so that 92 groove* or channel* running the over the channel in which it belongs,
they would set type, but found to up and down way of the magazine, it “lets go” and (b ops into its chan
be too expensive to operate. ^It was fdr carrying the matrices. The nel.
ft
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DEPUTIES: L. Schadewits, Kent, j through experimenting with a ma
matrices slide down these channel* >If, however, there is a matrix in
Or egos ; Dr. Jo». Sa a oder», Moro. ] chine for the more rapid transcrib
on edge, with the face or punched the line which was not designed to
ing of reports of law cases and the edge down and the V-end extending drop into one of the channels operat-*
I reports of legislative committees toward the upper part of the maga ed from« the keybeiurd,. it will be
a i
that ¿the idea of a slug-casting ma- zine. Each one of these channels is carried clear across, the distributor
I chine developed.
of sufficient
length to contain bar and dropped into the last chan
nel, and from there it wilt find its
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The Mergenthaler Linotype is the twenty matrices.
The Linotype matrix is made of way to the sorts box..
most successful one-man composing
The distribution of the matrices is
machine in the world. It is a single brass. Its thickness varies with the
STÒCK & WHEAT I machine whfbh~ at the will of one size of the character stamped into the most wonderful part of the Lino
I operator assembles a line of mat- it. The teeth which appear in the type. The distributor will handle -
I rices, casts a slug from them, trims V at the top of the matrix are used the matrices day after day and week
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and delivers the slug into a galley in the distribution of the matrices. after week, taking the lines as they
I ready for use, and finally distributes Matrices are made in both one- and come, separating the matrices and
one-letter dropping each one into its proper
I the matrices back into their respect two-letter—i. e., the
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ive channels in the magazine, where matrix has but one character punch channel without an error. It does
they are ready to be called down ed on its edge, and the two-letter its work automatically «and requires
I again, in their turn by the touch of has two character* punched on it*
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the key button. With the exception edge. By an Ingenious arrangement
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Sherman County Obser
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