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WHEN YOU CAN completely dismantle a manual typewriter to clean it, then put it back together again, it’s safe to say you can turn your hand to almost anything. This is exactly what Florence Kleinschafer did while employed as an office worker at J & A Brown, a coal-mining company in Newcastle.

“This is just one of the funny stories our aunts told

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