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Before it Becomes Newsprint

by John Morris in Cityscape on 09/8/2010
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If you peer in to a small hidden window on the News & Observer building on Salisbury Street, you can see giant spindles of paper before being printed and cut.

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mp
09/08/2010

Are the printing machines still visible from the street? I took my son downtown at 10:30 one night in the stroller; from the street we watched the machines printing newspapers and then saw the bails of papers coming down the chutes and loaded onto delivery trucks.

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