Marion County GaArchives News.....Ames Smith April 12 1901
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The Marion County Patriot
The Marion County Patriot, No. 15
April 12, 1901
Page Three

Deserves Special Mention

There is an old negro in this town who deserves special consideration at the 
hands of the Patriot and that man is old man Ames Smith.

Last February fourteen years ago this editor purchased the cylinder press upon 
which the paper is at present printed, and old man Ames has turned off every 
edition, with but few exceptions, since the press was put in.

In the fourteen years there are 728 weeks and allowing 1,000 impressions per 
week would make 728,000 impressions in the fourteen years.  The crank wheel 
turns five times to each impression so the old man had to crook his elbow 
3,640,000 times to do this printing.

This makes not account of the extra two months since February nor the extra 
impressions on large job work done on the press.



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