The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-11-23
TYPO ERRORS.
Many Grotesque and Ludicrous Often
Found in Newspapers.

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lucky, Evening Sun.
Grotesque and laugh provoking
what is funnier than Typographical
errors in a newspaper? Some of the
finest Jokes extant come through the
fact that the printers finger slips.
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 artl-
Gle was printed about a prima donna
being engaged as screen star to act
in the movies. A typographical error
made the heading read, Scream Star
Was Once Singer" TO be sure, there
was considerable excitement in the
editors sanctum before the vocalist
could be pacifed. And yet, no one
detests the sight of 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
a newspaper the public itself would
probably feel constrained to give that
individual loving cup and every
community would feel like naming
streets in his honor.
Suppose your name is Haskle.
Would you not feel a bit peeved
should you find in local paper that
an r. had inadvertently placed it
self where an "H' ought to be? You
would certainly not be able to ex-
tract 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
tour around the world
and found himself much annoyed
with a reporter who had written His
numerous friends are surprised that
he is unhanged!" He sped to the
newspaper office and in his fury could
have grabbed the ulotrichous editor
by his woolly hair, but learned that
the offender was the compositor, who,
in setting up the report had ommited
the letter &C" thus substituting the
word ''unhanged" for unchanged,
which the reporter had written. Only
recently somewhat elaborated per-
sonal 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, gives
the sentence an entirely different
meaning than the 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 wit
ness, took his simple bath-mean-
ing 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 "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 dis
play line in an advertisement reading,
eve shot the entire family" when
shoe" is more profitable and health
full?
Less tragic, but nearly as embar-
RAISING was the experience Of a re-
porter who had been assigned to
"cover" the outdoor end of a fash
ionable church wedding. He described
the throng Of uninvited guests that
had clustered about the awning In
hope of gaining glimpse of the brid-
al pair as they emerged from the
church to enter a waiting automobile,
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 eag-
er groom" Ones sympathy for the
reporter is lessened, however, by the
fact that he applied to a newly-mar-
ried man a term that should be con-
fined to a maid.
Only those who have gone through
an operation which is fresh in the
memory can appreciate the gravity
and humor-of "break" in an Okla
homa daily. "Mr. Blank, who was
operated on for appendicitis" read an
item in the western paper, "is rapid
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