Museum gets final treasure
The Peabody Printing Museum received its final treasure Monday when members took possession of a Model 8 Linotype from the printing plant at Fort Hays State University.
Bill McPheeters, one of the more loyal members of the Peabody Print Museum volunteer moving groups, drove to Hays to pick up the linotype. He also has assisted the museum in trips to Almena, Sterling, and Emporia to bring home printing equipment.
The Model 8 is the workhorse of linotypes used in Kansas newspaper printing operations during the period from 1910 to 1960. This is the same model as the linotype from the former Gazette-Bulletin shop that was the original piece in the museum. However, that machine was damaged a couple of years ago and had to be junked.
The Model 8 joins a Model 5, a Model L, and a Model 15 in the museum, but will probably be the machine that is used the most by Bill Krause and Bill Jackson, curators, in their typesetting demonstrations.
The machine was unloaded and placed in the museum by a crew from Heckendorn Mfg., using their forklift.
With this linotype finally installed (it has been waiting for a pickup since September), "
