Oh, what the quarantine has done to me.
Original advertisement — with landscape image in portrait mode — from the Fall River Daily Evening News (Fall River, Massachusetts), January 2, 1890 —

Revised (2020) —

© 2020, Mark Adams. All rights reserved.
Much better! 😀
Maybe the guy was typing on a ship in a serious storm … or maybe this was a device to get the reader’s attention.