transcribing an old IFERS bulletin (Dover, 1956) — the sign painter who started the whole modern thing

Got a photocopy of a photocopy of an early Flat Earth Society newsletter off a guy at a swap meet, paid a fiver. Half unreadable. But the origin is in there and it lines up with what's online. Samuel Shenton, a sign writer — like he painted shop signs for a living — living in a little brick terrace ……