The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-11-14
GRCTESOUE TYPO-ERRORS
FOUND IN NEWSPAPERS
Linotype Gets Blame for Many &
Laugh-Frovoker-Somc Of the
Mistakes Recited
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Grotesquc and laugh provoking
what is fun2ier than a typographical
I error in q newspaper? Some Of the
/ finest jokes eXtant come through the
fact that the printers finger slips.
Usually, these mistakes or breaks y
are funny long. long time after
ward-never at the time. For in
stance, several years ago a newspa-
per was threatened with suit because
an article was printed about prima
donna being engaged as 9 screen star
to act in the movies. 4, Topographic
cal ere? made the heading read,
Scream Star Was Once Singer" To
be sure there was considerable eN-
citement in the editors sanctum be-
! fore the vocalist could be pacitied.
And yet, no one detests the sight Of
an error more than the editor HIM
self. IF some one could invent or
suggest a way to forever do away
with ristakes-could make infallible
the columns Of newspaper-thc
public itself would probably feel con-
strained TO give that individual low
ing cup and every community would
! feel like naming streets in his honor.
Suppose your name is Haskle.
Would you not feel a :5it peeved
should you find in a local paper that
al or had inadvertently placed it
self where an II" ought to be? You
would certainly not be able to extract
as much amusement from such an IN
cidant as your neighbours; but your
position would be no more embarrass-
ing than that Of an American who
had been for tour around the world
and found himself much annoyed
witt, what reporter had written
which ended: ellis numerous friends
are surprised that he IS unhanged"
He sped to the newspaper office and
in his fury could have grabbed the
ulctrichous editor by his woody hair,
Tut learned that the offender was the
compcsitor, who, in setting up the re-
port had omitted the letter &C., thus
substituting the word "unhanged".
for unchanged" which the reporter
had written. Only recently a some
what elaborated personal telling Of a
young lady's visit and departure said,
''she made many fiends while here"
the fact that an "r" failed in the
personal noun, giving the sentence
sn entirely different meaning than
that intended.
A Buffalo paper, in describing the
scene when Roosevelt took the oath
of Office as president, said it was a
spectacle never to oe forgotten when
Roosevelt, before the chief justice OF
the supreme court and a few witness
es took mis- simple bath-meaning
oath, of course. But perhaps the
most unfortunate error appearing re-!
Gently protruded itself from the col
umns of a Bridgeport, Connecticut,
newspaper last August, in the de-
scription of wedding. 1t read,
.Thc bride carried an arm bouquet
Of punk roses" ':Pink" was the word
intended, but i. seems the gods arel
powerless in the hands Of the printer.
Else, how can one account for dis
play line in an advertisement read
ing, "We shot the entire family"
when "shoe" is more profitable and
healhtful?
Less tragic, but nearly as embas-
RAISING was the experience of a re-
porter who had been assigned to
''cover" the outdoor end Of fash
ionable church wedding. He describ-
the throng Of unlimited guests that
had clustered about the awning mi
hope of gaining glimpse Of the bri-
dal pair as they emerged "from thej
church to enter waiting utoniobile,
and he recorded the result in the fol-
lowing words: "The comely bride
was quickly swept from sight by the
eager groom" But the pitiless type
set it forth thus: "The homely bride
was quickly swept from sight by the
eager groom" Ones sympathy for
the reporter is lessened, however, by
the fact that he applied to a newly
married man a term that should be
confined to maid.
Only those VINO have gone through
an operation which is fresh in the
memory can appreciate the gravity
and humor-of 'brcak" in an Ok
tahoma daily. "Mr Blank, who was
operated on for appendicitis" read
an item in the western paper, 'ls
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