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WESTERN PLUCK

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 7, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 39.

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WESTERN PLUCK.

A WESTERN newspaper started on its career under peculiar circumstances. The editor of the Rocky Mountain Cyclone thus opened the first article of the first issue of his paper:
"We begin the publication of the Rocky Mountain Cyclone with some phew diphiculties in the way. The type phounder phrom whom we bought the outphit phor this printing orphis phailed to supply any ephs and cays, and it will be phour or phive weeks bephore we can get any. We have ordered the missing letters, and will have to wait until they come. We don't lique the loox ov this variety ov spelling any better than our readers, but mistax will happen in the best regulated ov phamilies, and iph the cees and exes and qus hold out we shall ceep (sound the c hard) the Cyclone whirling aphter a phashion till the sorts arrive. It is no joque to us; it is a serious aphair."—The Morning Star.