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Lamenting the handwritten word…

In today’s world of email, instant messaging, and twitter, there are many who lament the “old days” when people took the time to type out a letter, sign it, and use a stamp & envelope to get it to its destination. This item, found in “The Townsend Messenger” of Montana, issue date of March 18, 1892 [1], takes that “lament” back one step further when the typewriter replaced the handwritten note. [2]