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Baytown Sun in Baytown, Texas

02 Oct 1968

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Baytown Sun

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Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 02, 1968

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3

That Trusty Old Typewriter Has A Long History

A Baytown Sun reminiscence traces the invention and evolution of the typewriter from early patents to modern memory keyboards. It recalls Henry Mill, Christopher Sholes, and Edison forecasts, notes shifts to women typists, touch typing, and the enduring keyboard layout with historic quirks and the rise of electric machines.

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Ron Lennard Baytown Sun Baytown Mark Twain Kentucky Queen Anne Henry Mill America Wisconsin Christopher Sholes New York City Young Women’s Christian Association McGurrin Sholes George Bernard Shaw Thomas Edison James Field Smathers Kansas City Yesteryear Wanda Jones Timber Lane Glenn Vickery
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Antarctica Is Biggest Desert In The World

HAL BOYLE notes the Antarctic continent is the world’s largest desert with six inches of snow annually, half an inch of rain, far drier than Death Valley, per National Geographic. The column surveys quirky facts on coffee lore, a Tokyo dream bed, and other light trends.

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Hal Boyle New York Europe Constantinople Tokyo Sahara Antarctic National Geographic Society Death Valley California
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The Glass Sided Ants Nest Review by Peter Dickinson

Peter Dickinson crafts a London based mystery where a New Guinea tribe in an apartment block is torn between tribal mores and modern life. A police investigator and a London resident confront cultural tension and a homicide tied to the community.

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Peter Dickinson Harper & Row Dickinson New Guinea London Mary Campbell
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