Miehle 00 Book Press purchased by R.G.K. Deering during the 1930s
Miehle 00 Book Press
Miehle 00 Book Press after being loaded on a flat-bed trailer on its way out of Burleson
Chandler & Price Platen Presses
Craftsman Paper Cutter
Nolan Remelt Furnace
Model 14 Linotype purchased in the late '40s
Hazel Deering operates the Chandler & Price press.
Hazel Deering feeds paper into the Miehle 00 Book Press
Hazel Deering reads the final edition of The Burleson Dispatcher
Hazel Deering pours molten lead into the Nolan Remelt Furnace
Model 14 Linotype before being hauled out of the newspaper building in 1999
The press was sold following the demise of the Dispatcher and its location is unknown.
It has been said the press in the corner, of the "Old Style" variety, may have
printed the Burleson Banner when W.B. Newton began that paper in June 1895.
Machine currently being restored by Robert A. Griffith
seated at her Model 14 Mergenthaler Linotype
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