Ancient evil comes to the city and is sent scatting (not without some struggle, it is true) by thoroughly modern vampire-hunters who use blood transfusions and stenography and typewriting machines.
Furthermore, Frincke here publicly offered " personal instruction and training in practical mathematics, bookkeeping, and all branches of the business life, including stenography, typewriting, etc" .
Last midsummer I received a circular from a typewriting person, soliciting my custom; some one who had somehow got hold of my name, and fancied me to be still in purgatory.
" Well, two days ago, the gentleman asked permission to use my typewriting machine; and he typed out — with difficulty, for he evidently had no practice — a letter of which I saw the address by accident" .