I noticed this typesetting error in the November 3, 1906, issue of the Los Angeles Herald. (I'm not talking about the typo in "Agent Robbed nad Murdered" but rather that upside-down T in "Lest We Forget.")
It's hard to imagine a time when type was actually set one letter at a time -- by hand -- and that was a miracle in itself. Another miracle is that we can look at a particular issue of a particular paper from 104 years ago with no trouble at all. It's good to peer over the shoulders of all the giants who have walked, and are walking, on the earth. Lest we forget.
Oh, and the "Lest We Forget" hed is some editorializing about a couple of California politicians, James Gillett and Abraham Ruef.
It's hard to imagine a time when type was actually set one letter at a time -- by hand -- and that was a miracle in itself. Another miracle is that we can look at a particular issue of a particular paper from 104 years ago with no trouble at all. It's good to peer over the shoulders of all the giants who have walked, and are walking, on the earth. Lest we forget.
Oh, and the "Lest We Forget" hed is some editorializing about a couple of California politicians, James Gillett and Abraham Ruef.