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Beer City’s Blue Ribbon Mansion
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A Very Compatible Odd Couple
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IN 1866, WISCONSIN PRINTER Christopher Sholes designed a machine to print page numbers in books and serial numbers on tickets. His partnership on that venture led to this June 23, 1868, patent for a Type-Writer, to print letters. The new device was c

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