The Sutton News newspaper installed a new automatic printing press in early 1944 providing evidence supporting its claim in the article that the News printing plant was second to none in this part of the state.
There really was, and is a company that uses the name "Kluge" beginning in November 1919 as Brandtjen & Kluge, LLC as described in their web site - Brandtjen & Kluge.
A fun question remains. Do you suppose our word "kluge" comes from this company? Or better yet, "kludge?"
Kluge (English: /ˈkluːɡi/, German: [ˈkluːɡə]) is a German-derived surname. In German, capitalizing, and adding a final e to, the adjective klug (meaning "clever"), creates a noun; it is applicable to females and means "clever one".
A kludge or kluge (/klʌdʒ, kluːdʒ/) is a workaround or quick-and-dirty solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend and hard to maintain. This term is used in diverse fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, Internet slang, evolutionary neuroscience, and government. A software kludge (often called "spaghetti code") is frequently the result of hacking. See photo of "A network kludge" at right.
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