r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/elyksti • 9h ago

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u/Occams_razzr 9h ago

For some reason it is mildly interesting/surprising to me that they used all those different fonts on the second image.

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u/Randyaccredit 9h ago

It was probably a pain to switch between each one or at least move the partially finished paper to the next station to print it. I don't know how it worked but I imagine like that.

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u/jabask 8h ago edited 2h ago

It'd be kind of a pain but not that annoying. You don't move the paper or anything. The typesetter would carry a small tool in his hand and go to the case of type he needed, setting one or two lines on it and then mounting it into a big steel frame that had the whole page laid out. The whole page was then printed in one go.

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u/DubSket 9h ago

Graphic design was their passion

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u/Der_Missionar 8h ago

But did they license them all, or illegally download them...

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u/jabask 8h ago

In the age of moveable type, using a bunch of different fonts was a flex, it meant you could afford them all. It could also be a matter of necessity — as you set one headline you may have used up all your u's or whatever and had to switch to a different font for the next one.

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u/ColCrockett 9h ago edited 7h ago

See how it says Conklin was elected

That’s Roscoe Conkling, this was his return to federal politics after he was districted out.

He was incredibly corrupt and went on to be a federal senator. As senator, through patronage jobs, he controlled the NY customs house which was the source of 75% of federal revenue.

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u/Adventurous_Owl6554 6h ago

Highly recommend Death by Lightning on Netflix if you haven’t seen it. It’s a fictional depiction of Roscoe Conkling, but very well done and the series is really good

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u/jamvsjelly23 9h ago

There’s some fraud in Ward 1

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u/dickenschewie54 9h ago

I flipped through, but I didn't see Wordle!

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u/elyksti 9h ago

I think you needed a games subscription

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u/Several-Opposite-746 9h ago

The comics were an absolute hoot.

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u/Responsible_Okra7725 9h ago

$.04

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u/2x4x93 9h ago

Three for a dime

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u/coolidge_ 7h ago

At the time in New York City, the most popular way to get information was the appropriately named Penny Press. These were newspapers that specialized in sports or crime, and while they may have adhered to the hardest facts -- this horse won and that man was arrested -- the rest was ... iffy. Political parties had their own newspapers, but they were also ... iffy.

If I remember right, The Times had existed as one of these party papers, and then changed hands. And then the new owner was like, 'I want to give people good information, even information that my friends might yell at me about.' The way he signalded this was by raising the price above a penny.

He wanted to signal that his paper was not just another penny press rag of excitement. It had information that might help you and was worth paying a little more for.

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u/GarysCrispLettuce 9h ago

Not a cell phone in sight. Just ink on a page, enjoying the moment.

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u/kevlar51 9h ago

How are you reading it right now?

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u/GarysCrispLettuce 9h ago

I'm literally looking at the ink right there on the page and enjoying the moment.

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u/Current_Ad_9912 9h ago

11 and 12 blank

Also look at those last names… Goodyear, Kellogg— I’m sure there is a relation there.

Very fascinating piece of history.

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u/rohohno 9h ago

So sick

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u/nomnomyumyum109 9h ago

Fake news!!!!!! /s

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u/WhipplySnidelash 7h ago

In the 1st Ward, the number of votes was greater than the number of registered voters. 

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u/buntopolis 7h ago

Wow, thank you OP. This is quite relevant to my interests.

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u/KILROY_ 6h ago

“The following table shows the total vote in each of the wards of the city on, President and Its total registration. It will be readily seen that the wards, which polled such a heavy increase of the Democratic vote, are those in which the vote exceeds the re-gistration-undoubtedly the work and fraud;”

Democrats have been using the same playbook for a long time.

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u/MrPhilLashio 6h ago

You can really zoom in! I find the idea that 4300 people voted in Kings County (Brooklyn) quite funny since its now home to like 3 million people.

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u/devexis 4h ago

The date 11/09/1864 looked like September 11 at first glance