ANOTHER MASTHEAD MISHAP Public Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 35, August 29, 2004, Article 13
ANOTHER MASTHEAD MISHAP
Regarding the New York Times issue numbering mistake
mentioned last week, Tom DeLorey writes: "Many years
ago, while I was living in Detroit, the Detroit Free Press
'fessed up to a spelling error in its masthead that had been
running, unnoticed, for 109 years! The name of the paper
was in a gothic-style type, and it inadvertently read "Vetroit
Free Press." The error was discovered when a man who
set type for church hymnals down South came to Detroit
to visit his sister, noticed the error, and contacted the paper.
The paper good-naturedly ran the story on the front page."- 2004-08-29
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