When Sylvia Smith was forced to leave Marble on 27 March 1912, her Marble City Times <\/i>newspaper printing press was impounded by the town for safe keeping. The location is not mentioned in the accounts that I had read and became a \u201cwhat happened\u201d curiosity. This curiosity has been crossed off the list. While searching The Marble Booster <\/i>for information about Henry Mertens, a 10 February 1917 issue shows it was placed in the basement of Kobey\u2019s. Being there almost 5 years, Ike Kobey\u2019s position was the town never paid storage rent so he would sell the equipment. At the early February 1917 storage sale, Kobey was the buyer.<\/p>\n
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