I doubt the Albert Lea Enterprise published any amusing typos in the late 1800s under the sober leadership of Clint L. Luce, who also served as the Freeborn County coroner. (Photo courtesy mnhs.org) Funny Typographical Errors.
Some typographical errors are very funny. In a New York paper recently the words "This Port Said is" was rendered "This," Pat said, "is," and "Put out the flag" appeared as "Pat cut the hog." When B.F. Taylor's poem on Burns' Centennial was telegraphed from Chicago a few years ago, the first line, "Heart of leal! Can this be dying?" appeared in the papers coupled with the operator's warning, "Robert Burns is passing by heart of lead can this be lying?" Horace Greeley wrote at the head of an editorial, "William H. Seward," and it came out "Richard the Third!" A New Haven editor wrote, "Is there balm in Gilead?" and was surprised at table next morning to read, "Is there a barn in Guilford?" The sentence, "Americans are generous and forgiving," was recently transformed into "Americans are Germans and foreigners." But the worst, perhaps, is that quotation made by a distinguished literary review, 'Tis true, 'tis pity, pity, 'tis, 'tis true," which came out in proof, " 'Tis two, 'tis fifty, 'tis fifty, 'tis fifty-two."
