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The Daily Standard: 175 Years of Local History
Newspapers roll off the press like a scene from an old movie.
Press operator Jake Snyder has been in the press room since he was 14 and began by melting lead. Now 66, Snyder manually adjusts the press every night, aligning tiny marks on the paper to get the finished product looking just right. Snyder said the press room goes through about 500 to 1,000 papers a night to ensure the paper is colored and printed correctly.
The press and folder in the 1950s.
The Daily Standard Clara Kellermayer at her Linotype keyboard in the 1950s.
File Photo/The Daily Standard Some of the business management team and circulation personnel from the mid-1950s. Seated, from left: Joy and Parker Snyder and Susie Quinter. Standing, Bill Hale, Jean Clifton, Mary Ellen Winkeljohn and Trudy Boroff. Joy and Parker were brother and sister. Parker's four children - Adelle, Frank M., Lillian and Jacob - formed the fourth generation of newspaper Snyders.