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Turkey Prohibits Typewriters

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 5, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 23.

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Turkey Prohibits Typewriters

Turkey has declared against the use or importation of the typewriter in that country, and 200 machines now in the custom-house have been ordered returned to the shippers. The authorities have taken this position because of the impossibility of ascertaining the authorship of type-written manuscript by any distinctive features in the writing, which would enable persons to write seditious matter without fear of being discovered by the government.