A small reminder that even the old newspapers weren’t perfect.
This brief item from the Henderson Morning Gleaner (Oct. 22, 1932) is a good example of a typesetting carryover, a line of text that accidentally slipped in from the story above during manual composition. The first sentence belongs to a separate social notice, while the remainder reports on a serious accident involving Jack Bentley at a sawlog works near Corydon, where a crushed toe led to his removal to Henderson Hospital and the possibility of amputation.
These little errors were common in the era of hand-set and linotype printing, especially in tightly packed “local news” columns. For today’s readers, they’re a fascinating peek behind the scenes of how newspapers were physically assembled-and a reminder to read historic sources with a careful eye.
Even the misprints have stories to tell.
