Typographical Errors and Their Amusing Effects
A survey of typographical slips shows how dropping letters or misprints cause humorous or embarrassing results. Examples include Pneumonia from sleeping near a widow and the Vinegar Bible misreadings, with notes on printers, editors, and notable misspellings in period texts.
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Marjorie Mears
World Press
London
Aly
King’s
Robert Barker
Martin Lucas
Court of High Commission
British Museum
Glasgow
Milton
Fannie Hurst
Miss Hurst
Nanawuon
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
St. Lou
Post-Dispatch
Wilson
America
Cynara
Levine Arrested for Speeding Then Flees to Fly Overseas
A fragment notes Charles A Levine was arrested for speeding in New York but escaped the cops and took an airplane overseas. It also mentions Ziegfeld predicting American girls in beauty contests and references the Follies as a later event. The passage ends with cautions about auto accidents and debt avoidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diffei
Charles A Levine
New York
Freedom of the Knees and Hosiery Fashion in 1929
A 1929 essay promotes women’s hosiery and wardrobe as a symbol of independence. It links fashion shifts from bobbed hair and short skirts to silk stockings, leather pumps, and ankle free mobility, arguing that smart hosiery empowers women in public life while defending feminine appearance.
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New York
Milacy
Bell Syncate
No dull minded genius the child may be
An outdated 1929 Bell Syndicate piece argues against labeling children as dull. It stresses most quote dull children can be helped by early testing and special instruction, and that famous minds were misread as dull in school. It urges immediate, targeted training and proper diagnosis to unlock potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison
Dickens
Darwin
Hosta
Peope
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Jenny Wren and the House Centipede
Jenny Wren discovers a queer insect, the house centipede, while foraging for food for hungry babies. She chases the long‑legged creature but only tears away a single leg, then watches a crack hoping for another chance as a faint chirp nearby hints at more prey.
Jenny Wren Hunts in Vain
Jenny scans the scene for food to feed hungry babies in a nest. She tracks the source of a chirping insect but cannot locate it, while a twitching centipede near her throws a disturbing note into the hunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenny
T W Burgess
Jenny Wren
More Truth Than Poetry
A satirical poem by James J. Montague lampoons the busy bee myth as lazy and foolish. It argues the insect rests on flowers while others work and mocks praise of industry as vanity. The piece then shifts to political lines about Congress and Mussolini in a collage of social commentary.
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Pocatello Tribune Btember Associat 4 Press
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Idaho State Fdneral Association
Omn
Pocatello, Idaho
Pocatello Tribune, Inc
I. Pocatello
Pocatello
Idaho
North Woods
Bottolfsen
Arco
Ziegfield
Mabel
Gluyas Williams
Faminy
Shed
Freet
By Mimi
SOX
By Thornton W. Burgess
Jenny Wrens
Partner Brown
Mr Wren
Heten
Bell Syndicate
Girligag SP
By Gettier
Tribune
Tey Oun
Bath
James J. Montague
Rose
Daisy
Loafer
Harry Sinclair
Italy
Vesuvius
Etna
Mussolini
Masila
Manila
United States
Pocatello Greenhouse & Floral CO
East Wyeth
Okamura Gardens
Home Lumber & Coal CO
East Halliday
Kelvinator
Coldkeeper
R. Hw. Wells
Office
Idaho Coat & Ice Co
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