BLUFORD, Ill. -- Before his retirement, Dean Nayes of Bluford crisscrossed the nation as a Linotype operator. During his career, he was employed by more than 80 newspapers, ranging from The Hill City ...

When Jessie Winters moved to Las Cruces with her family in the 1960s, she would set aside her nomadic life and establish a home for the rest of her 100 years. Winters celebrated 10 decades on June 27 ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — By the time The Berkshire Evening Eagle hired its first woman reporter in 1917, the publication already had a pioneer female Linotype operator, Margaret E. Smith (1874-1952). Lenox ...

Margaret E. Steuer (1874-1952) cracked the male stronghold of The Berkshire Eagle’s composition department in 1891 when she sat to set type by hand. The newspaper then was an eight-page weekly. Three ...