Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-11-10
TYPO ERRORS
Many GEOiesqde and LudlCrOus Often
Found in Newspapers,
some FUNNY ERRORS ARE CITED
Linotype Gets Blame For Many
Laugh Observation-Disclosures There
is Much Excitement in the Editors
Sanctum on Account of Them.

Fred G. Neuman in Paducah, Kentucky
Evening Sun.
Grotesque and laugh provoking
what is funnier than a typographical
error in newspaper? Some OF the
finest Jokes extant come through the
fact that the printers finger SIPS.
Usually, these mistakes or breaks
are funny long, long time afterward
never at the time. For instance,
several years ago newspaper was
threatened with suit because an article
was printed about prima donna be-
ing engaged as screen star to act III
the movies. A Typographical error
made the heading read, I"Scream Star
Was Once Singer" To be sure, there
was considerable excitement in
the editors sanctum before the vocal
ist could be pacified. And yet, no one
detests the sight or an error more
than the editor himself. If some one
could invent or suggest a way for
forever doing away with mistakes
could make infallible the columns of
newspaper the public itself would
probably feel constrained to give that
individual a loving cup and; every com
munity would feel like naming streets
in his honor.
Suppose your name is Haskle. Would
you not feel bit peeved should you
find in a local paper that an "R" had
inadvertently placed itself where an
II" ought to be? You, would certain
ly not be able to extract as much
amusement from such an incident as
your neighbors; but your position
would be no more embarrassing than
that of an American who had been for
a tour around the world and found
himself much annoyed with a reporter
who had written His numerous
friends are surprised that he is un-
hanged!" He sped to the newspaper
office and in his fury could have
grabbed the ulotrichous editor by his
woolly 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 reporter had written. Only re-
Gently a somewhat elaborated personal
telling of a young lady's visit and de-
parture said "she made many fiends
while here" the fact that an ''r' failed
in the personal noun, gives the sent
ence an 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
spectacle never to be forgotten when
Roosevelt before the chief justice OF
the supreme court and few witnesses,
took his simple bath-meaning oath, OF
course. But perhaps the most un-
fortunate error appearing recently
protruded itself from the columns or
a Bridgeport Connecticut newspaper
last August, in the description OF
wedding. 1t read THE bride carried
an arm bouquet of punk roses" Pink"
was the word intended, but it seems
the gods are powerless in the hands OF
the printer. Else, how can one account
for a display line in an advertisement
reading, 1--WE shot the entire family,
when shoe" is more profitable and
healthful?
Less tragic, but nearly as embarrass-
ing was the experience of reporter
who had been assigned to Cover the
outdoor end of a fashionable church
! wedding. He described the throng OF
uninvited 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 recorded
the result in the following words: The
comely bride was quickly swept from
sight by the eager groom" But the
pitiless type set it forth thus: 1.-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 term that
should be confined to a maid.
Only those who have gone through
an operation which is fresh in the
memGry can appreciate the gravity
and humor-of a break" in an Okla
homa daily. Mr.. Blank, who was
operated on for appendicitis" read an
item in the western paper, 'is rapidly
recovering. His many friends hope to
see him cut again soon" The same
paper shortly afterward intended to
state that the windows on certain
street in the town needed washing, and
the IN" was omitted in the windows"
but the widows did not have nearly as
much of a grievance against the
printers as the clergyman in the east
ern part Of Kentucky who preached on
the subject, "The Cup in Joseph's
Sack" The town wceklys linotype
,,perator made the reverend gentleman
talk about The Cup in Joseph's Sock
II the widows anu this clergyman have
cause for protest so has the Louisville
pastor who took his text THE Broken