The Wageworker, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 31, 1907
I'd just like to say this is beautifully typeset with excellent use of spacing and hyphens. However I find it a little funny that I can tell the newspaper bought their type from multiple foundries, as the shoulder of a few of the letters is slightly shorter than the rest. If you need to know what I'm talking about, look at the "less" in the bottom righthand corner. The second "s" is slightly lower on the page than its neighbor. It's the same font, and typeface, but produced by a different type foundry. (It could also be the same type foundry at a different time, or a different machine at the foundry, etc.) You can also spot this phenomenon in the "te" of "peni-tentiary" and the "t" of "If the eastern."
My guess is that they had an original order of quite a lot of type, and then over the years as the type wore out and they began to need replacements, got a second, smaller order which was made to different specifications.
Here's a helpful diagram from wikipedia:
(Yes I forgot the term for the shoulder of a piece of type and had to look it up.)
