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The Last Handset Newspaper - The Doe Run Courier

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Homer Garrett is the owner, publisher, reporter and pressman of the last surviving handset newspaper in America. Here he is at work in the Doe Run (Georgia) Courier office. Garrett not only sets the type by hand, he writes the stories as he is setting the type—backward—into the handheld type tray.
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The Last Handset Newspaper
Homer Garrett is the owner, publisher, reporter and pressman of the last surviving handset newspaper in America. Here he is at work in the Doe Run (Georgia) Courier office. Garrett not only sets the type by hand, he writes the stories as he is setting the type—backward—into the handheld type tray.