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It’s Wednesday, June 23, 2021, and on this date in 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for something he called the Type-Writer.
For the kids out there, the typewriter was a contraption that predated computers and iPhones. You see, you rolled a piece of paper into this device and as you typed, a key would cause the corresponding letter to pop up, hit an ink ribbon and leave that mark on the paper. That’s how you wrote mail, term papers, books and the like.
If you made a mistake, you could use Liquid Paper to repair it. If you made too many mistakes, you would have to retype it. I used one throughout high school and college. Legend has it that in 1982, I once dictated an entire term paper to a friend who then retyped it in time for me to make a pre-dawn run to drop it off at the professor's office, thus saving graduation. Computer! Internet! Email! Bah!
Now various incarnations of a typewriter had been around since the early 1700s. What set Sholes — a newspaper publisher and politician — and his partner's devices apart was the invention of the QWERTY keyboard in 1873. If you look down at your laptop and see QWERTY on the first line of letters, you have Sholes to thank.
Fun fact: To popularize the QWERTY keyboard, typing speed competitions became the rage in the late 1800s. In Toronto during the “International Writing-Machine Speed Contest for the Championship of the World” under the auspices of the Canadian Shorthand Society on Aug. 13, 1888, A. J. Nicholas of Youngstown finished 10th in the "Memorized Sentence" competition, which measured "the total number of words written in five minutes by each competitor."
Now let’s make today count!
And here are more of the things you need to know about what's happening in the Mahoning Valley:
Lordstown Motors Corp. may face an uphill battle to regain public confidence in its all-electric Endurance pickup truck.
But members of the media on Tuesday saw that vehicle bounding over hills and splashing through mud pits — part of the second day of Lordstown Week, the automaker’s weeklong investors event. About 30 to 50 visitors booked in-person tours for each of the first four days of Lordstown Week, and reporter Justin Dennis was there Tuesday and shares details today.
Pandemic facts
- In the U.S.: 33,564,660 confirmed cases; 602,455 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University & Medicine at 9 p.m. June 22.
- In Ohio: 1,109,374 confirmed or suspected cases; the new adjusted COVID-19 death total is 20,213.
- In Pennsylvania: 1,210,646 confirmed cases; 27,604 deaths.
- In the Mahoning Valley: 22,383 confirmed or suspected cases in Mahoning County; 16,559 in Trumbull; and 9,038 in Columbiana.
- Dow Jones Industrial Average: Closed at 33,945.58, up 68.61 points, or 0.20 percent.
Other matters
With increased violence in Youngstown, the community has questions about how the Youngstown Police Department will keep residents safe while also working toward reforms. Chief Carl Davis addressed concerns during the Next Steps Coalition town hall Tuesday. Mahoning Matters
Among the Valley's titans of industry in today's Business Updates are Farmers National Banc Corp., Greenwood Chevrolet in Austintown, Greenwood’s Hubbard Chevrolet, Above Average Boutique and Schwebel Baking Co. Mahoning Matters
The White House COVID-19 team announced Tuesday the nation is “close to achieving” but likely won’t make President Joe Biden’s goal set in early May for 70% of all adults to have at least one coronavirus shot. And young adults are partly to blame. Mahoning Matters
Local unemployment rates in May declined from the previous month and were down by more than 10 percentage points from the same time in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered many businesses. The Business Journal [May require registration.]
Three weeks after Ohio’s mask mandate was lifted, COVID-19 case numbers are staying low, but the number of other respiratory illnesses is up, said Dr. James Kravec, chief medical officer at Mercy Health. WKBN
During an acrimonious, three-hour meeting Monday, A. Joseph Fritz, village law director, described the political environment of Newton Falls Council as “a nuthouse,” a comment that drew angry groans from the audience at the council meeting. WFMJ
Austintown Township has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic, and Darren Crivelli, township zoning inspector, said 2021 has been the busiest year he has seen since joining the township zoning office 13 years ago. The Vindicator [May encounter paywall.]
In case you missed it
Joe Shagrin opened Foster Theatre, Youngstown’s first neighborhood theater, in 1938 “on a Christmas night to a packed house,” Esther Hamilton wrote in the Youngstown Vindicator in 1955. Today there's new hope the iconic theater will get revitalized by the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation. Mahoning Matters
Your comments matter
“It'll be so good to have the Dominicans back!”
— Josh Mansfield, on Bishop David Bonnar of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown appointing the Dominican fathers of St. Dominic Priory to serve as chaplains of Campus Ministry at the Newman Center at Youngstown State University.
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