Here is a 20-page pre-anniversary shorthand story from the Gregg Writer (June-Sept 1922). The Touch System (1909) is a detective story that seems very implausible.
I recently read this article. It is not a difficult read.
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Besides appearing in various newspapers of the time, this story had also been serialized before in longhand form in the June to October 1910 issues of The Gregg Writer.
I just looked at part of the serialization in English in the Gregg Writer in 1910. It seems very strange that they put a detective story in English in this magazine. It has nothing to do with business or shorthand or typewriting instruction. (A typewriter does figure into the plot.) I wonder why they took up so much space with the English version of the story. It was not being used as a key for shorthand plates at that time.
There you go … it features a typewriter!
Joking aside, in the early days of the magazine, articles of general interest were also included in The Gregg Writer.