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Wednesday, 26 January 2022

The Cooee March, the Corona Portable Typewriter and the first Australia Day*

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On the weekend of October 2-3, 1915, 43-year-old career public servant Edward Hugh Palmer took his Corona portable typewriter with him on a ...
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Monday, 24 January 2022

H. Allen Smith, his Oliver Typewriter, and Getting ‘Stranded on the Davenport’

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H. Allen Smith, second from right, at an Oliver typewriter in the newsroom of the Huntington Press in Indiana in 1923. It was on just such ...
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Friday, 21 January 2022

The Boxer Who Bashed Out the ‘Bad Boy’ Book on a Borrowed Typewriter, and Other H. Allen Smith Stories

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A typewriter can be a pretty formidable contraption when you sit down in front of it and say: ‘All right, now I'm going to be funny.’ ...
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A Spike in Newspaper History: H.L. Mencken's 'Copy Hook'

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Print newspaper journalists who worked in the good old days of 'hard' typewritten copy and hot metal will know what this is, and wha...
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022

Metropolis Revisited: Superman, Jimmy Olsen and the Cute Corona Skyriter Typewriter (Oh, and Puff the Magic Dragon Too)

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Blinky watches Lois Lane type on the Corona Skyriter Subjected by John Lennon to a Proust Questionnaire on a flight from Paris to Lyon in 19...
Monday, 17 January 2022

Setting Up a 1940 Remington Portable Typewriter From Right Across the Continent

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Long distance information, give me Freo WA Help me find a party who’s 2000 miles away She did not leave a number, but I know who placed ...
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Sunday, 16 January 2022

Corona Four-Bank Portable Typewriter Stars in 'Mrs Wilson"

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We watched the three-part BBC TV series Mrs Wilson on the weekend and were spellbound by it. Gripping stuff, with loads and loads of lovely...
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