To continue the conversation for one more day: In The New York Review of Books, Batya Ungar-Sargon writes about the heyday of the penny press and the history of The Sun: Like many such ventures ...
Inspired by souvenir penny presses, [Robert] built the Olin College penny press. This machine stamps out coins with the school’s name and a variety of other patterns. He built it as part of a ...
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., the fourth to bear his famous name, is about to undertake a new method of rolling pennies into the Vanderbilt coffers. On Dec. 10 is to appear in the streets of San ...