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  "textContent": "\n\nIn the 1800s, newspaper typesetters had a union-negotiated right to get paid for composing metal type that would be melted down unused. The practice was called \"bogus\" — and the Supreme Court upheld it. Glenn Fleishman's _Flong Time, No See: Forgotten Stories of Printing and Labor_ , now on Kickstarter, is full of stories like this. — Read the rest \n\nThe post New book collects the weirdest forgotten stories of printing history appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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