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Lost in mistranslation…

by on June 28, 2023

All those odd marks, indecipherable to the ordinary person, meant so much to the stenographer. But when those notes got transferred by the typist, the outcome was, well, —

The Boston Daily Globe (Boston, Massachusetts), December 31, 1905 –

© 2023, Mark Adams. All rights reserved.

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