The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-12-20
SGROTESQUE TYPOGRAPHICAL.
ERRORS FOUND in NEWSPAPERS
-mo'yIe Gets Blame for Many Laugh-Provoker soms
VI 'ne mistakes Rected. One Credited to a North
Carolina Newspaper
(Frcd G. Neuman, in Paducah, Ky
Evening Sun.)

1roeesque and laugh-provoking--
what is, funnier than a Typographical
error In newspaper? Some of the
nnest Jokes eAtant come through the
1act that the printers finger slips.
Usually, these mistakes or "breaks"
are funny "a long, long time after.
ward-never at the time. For in.
stance, several years ago a newspa.
per was Threatened with suit beca
an article was printed about a prima
donna being engaged as a screen
star to act IN the movies. A typo.
graphical error made the heading
read, Scream Star Was Once Sing
ser." To be sure there was consid-
cradle excitement in the EDITORS sane
tum before the voc alist could be paci-
ned. And yet, no one detests the
sight OF an error more than the editor
himself. If some ole could invent O.,
suggest a way for forever doing away
with mistakes could make infallible
the columns Of newspaper the pub
lie itself would probably feel con-
strained to give that individual a low
ing cup and every community would
feel lige naming streets in his honor
. Suppose your name was Haskle.
Would you not feel a bit peeved
should you find in a local paper that
an "R" had Inadvertently paced it.
Aself where an "H" ought to be? You
would certainly not be able to extract
5as much amusement from such an in
cident as your neighbors; but your
position would be no more embarrass-
ing than that Of an American who had
been for a tour around the world and
found himself much annoyed with a
reported who had written ellis num-
erous friends are surprised that he is
unhanged!" He sped to the newspaper
office and in his fury could have grab
bed tie uletrichious editor by his
wooly hair, but learned that the Of
fender was the compositor, who, in
setting up the report, had omitted the
letter &C." thus substituting the word
unhanged" for unchanged" which
the reported had written. Only re-
Gently somewhat elaborated per-
;sonal telling Of a young ladys visit
and departure said "she made many
'fiends while here the fact that an 'r"
failed in the personal noun, giving the
tence an entirely different meaning
than that intended.
A Buffalo paper in describing the
scene when Roosevelt took the oath
4of Office as president, said it was
sspectacle never to be forgotten when
Roosevelt before the chief pustice of
the supreme court and a few wit
s.nRSses, took his airaple hsta--.asse~-
ing oath, Of course. But perhaps the
most Unfortunate error appearing
recently protruded itself from the
columns Of a Bridgeport, Cannecti-
cut, newspaper, last August, in the
description Of a wedding. It read,
"The bride carried an arm bouquet Of
punk roses" "Pink" was the word
intended, but it seems the Gods are
spowerless in the hands of the print
er. Else, how can one account for a
display line in an advertisement read
ing, 1--WE shot the entire family"
when "shoe" is more profitable and
shealthful?
Less tragic, but nearly as embar-
RAISING was the experience of a re-
ported who had been assigned to "cov-
Her" the outdoor end Of a fashio liable
church wedding. He described the
throng of unlimited guests that had
clustered about the awning in hope of
gaining glimpse Of the bridal pair
as they emerged from the church to
enter waiting automobile, and he re-
corded the result in the following
words: "The tomely bride was quick
ly swept from sight by the eager
groom" But the pitiless type set il
forth thus: ''The homely bride was
quickly swept from sight by" the
eager groom. Ones sympathy fo1
I. the reporter is lessened, however, by
the fact that he applied to newly.
married man a term that should be
confined to maid
Only those who have gone through
an operation which is fresh in the
memory can appreciate the gravity
and humor--of a "break" in ar
Oklahoma daily. "Mr. Blank, who
was operated on for appendicitis
lread an item in the western paper
dis rapidly recovering. His many
friends hope to see him cut AGAR
seon." The same paper shortly af
terward intended to state that th'
windows on a certain street in tht
town needed washing, and the en-
was omitted in the. windows" Blu
the widows did not have nearly a
much Of a grievance against th'
printers as the clergyman in tn
eastern part Of Kentucky VIII
preached on the subject, "The Cul
In. Joseph's Sack" The town week
ly's linotype operator made the rev
erend gentleman talk about "The Gu
in ,Joseph's Sock" II the widow
and !, this clergyman have cause fo
protest. SO has, the Louis Vile paste
who took his text. "The Broken Net.