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Jilted because he used a typewriter!

by on October 12, 2019

From the Brown & Holland Shorthand News, August 1885 —

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  • Bill M October 12, 2019, 9:28 pm

    If the typewriter is insensitive for love I wonder what most texters and emailers would think. Most young people I meed could never comply with writing since I see more and more who cannot legibly write. Schools do not even teach proper penmanship any longer. How sad.

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  • T. Munk October 13, 2019, 2:43 am

    …and she died a lonely old spinster hag because she couldn’t get with the times! 😀

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