Retrospective.

100 years ago
AMERICAN MACHINIST
Be careful what you wish for, you just might obtain it. In the December 1899 edition, AMERICAN MACHINIST editors report upon how a newspaper editor learned this valuable life task
In the rush to publish a newspaper ahead of his competitors, the editor, who worked for what was described as a "go-ahead evening newspaper," was known for hounding his reporters about the necessity of condensing all novels
upon one occasion, a terrible boiler explosion had taken place aboard a large ship docked at Portsmouth. "Get down