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Hopkinsville Kentuckian Domestic News July 30, 1889
Hopkinsville, Christian, Kentucky
What is this article about?
The widow of John A. Little, a Pittsburg drummer drowned in the Hurlburt hotel at Johnstown, has sued the South Fork Co., owners of the dam, for $50,000; the test case could prompt many more suits over the disaster.
Quality green show the numbers
Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 98.7% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 101.45% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 95.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 95.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
Clipping
Full Text
The widow of John A. Little, a Pittsburg drummer who was drowned in the Hurlburt hotel at Johnstown, has sued the South Fork Co., owners of the dam, for $50,000 damages. This is a test case and if the plaintiff gains the suit many other actions will be brought against the company which a coroner's jury has decided was responsible for the disaster.
What sub-type of article is it?
Legal Or Court
Disaster
What keywords are associated?
Johnstown Flood
Damages Suit
South Fork Company
Hurlburt Hotel
Test Case
What entities or persons were involved?
John A. Little
Where did it happen?
Johnstown
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Johnstown
Key Persons
John A. Little
Outcome
$50,000 damages sought; test case for further actions against the south fork co.