The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-14
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ln the daily grind on a newspaperI frequently there comes something so originally funny that Che entire staff from editor to mail boy must be told of it boforc the office can SO back to| work
 it is strange, but it is true that the average newspaperman or printer. reads, writes, quotes or aliudes to SO much news. miscellany and sensation that be can read Che most thrilling shooting case or digest che funniest yarn of the day without thc increase of heart beat or the agitation of his Funny side Instead of becoming aroused at the vivid description of great battle, or laughing over clever jab ct humor the fellow who works on a newspaper looks at the other side of it; he is looking to see iC the sentences make English # the spelling is correct and if Chg pune. mation is accurate or the headline aps nroprlate If Is well known news paper fact Chat telographers on the large papers have been known to trans scribe the assassination of a high of- Gcial without so much as shifting their position at the key or letting his neighbor know that he was receiys ing unprecedented news.
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 But when the joke is on a rival pa per, or a rival printer or when a fel- low reporter makes a mistake. it Is the newspaperman who will see the fun- ny side of t. or the serious side. as the case may be, and tho temporary deadlock is the result
 Just today The Empire picked mp an Eastern paper and saw a "guide line played at the head of story which had been neglected by the makeup aud which ran through eight thousand papers The line was typical of a print CTS query it was "Where'n Ills Head to thls.p That line represent ed the machine operators disploasure at receiving a batch of "copyn with out a guide line. Frequently in fast newspaper work. the "dcsk mon" will not have time to guide" story; in- variably it causes confusion in the composing room.
 Those "catch Linesp
 eGAL TWO-PAIGE THREEEEEE" or similar lines. may frequently be seen in some Of the best journals. These are also catch-line errors, which are charged to the makeup.
 Then thero are the @pie-lines," such as etaoin shrdm cmfwyp ybgkqj etc, etc. which the newspaporman is ire uuently called upon to explain to his readers. There are many people who wonder at the pipelines" >" they occas- ionally see in a newspaper Often this little line causes two errors, for careless. or oyerworked makeup men sometimes will "pulp the wrong line, and then a garbled iargon is tbe re- suit
 The writer remembers the time that he asked for a society column on a certain paper. 4 girl friend supplied the news. and a good column it was. running once a week. Artishcally shaded type was used for an imDos- ing looking headline and things went well with tho society column for two weeks. Then the end came. Some man who lived in a neighborhing vii. lage, where Q correspondent for the paper sent in daily items had sore thumb. By one of those unaccount- able errors, Mr. Smith and his sore thumb wag placed in the center of the society column Two people stopped their papers Theso had occupied honorable space" immediately above and below che thumb fellow.
 And That Wedding
 Another time there was wedding in a certain town The account was carefully written up by budding jour. nalist. who felt he had canned his days salary after describing the de- tails For a week after the wedding the bridegroom refused to speak to the reporter who had written the ac. count Finally one day the newspa- perman jumped him. The fellow sure had a peeye. Did you see your fine story of my wedding, he sarcasdcal- ly remarkable, putting emphasis on the