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| Dear sir, I wish to call to your attention that your compositor has been drinking. |
This was in effect at the Guthrie Daily Leader on August 7, 1908, and I’m going to take the risk and point it out. Oh, what terrors I am braving for you! The Daily Leader should have been paying more attention to its compositor and less to the Dallas Times-Herald. This is going to be another one of those cases in which I transcribe exactly, making no alterations.[1]
And so, to show that it wasn’t just this one item, I have also included the one after, which also has a misspelling. Okay, in 1908, nobody could set things up on a computer, and they certainly didn’t have squiggly red lines underneath suspect words. They were working under more difficult conditions. And these short items are more-or-less page fillers.
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