The first issues were printed on a press purchased from the discontinued Oakland Chronicle of Pontiac, Michigan. It was dragged from Pontiac in a wagon over unpaved roads to a building at Bates and Woodbridge streets in Detroit. This amazing press could produce two hundred and fifty pages an hour, hand operated by two men.

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