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Great Falls Tribune Editorial June 5, 1889
Great Falls, Cascade, Montana
What is this article about?
Editorial expressing sympathy for victims of the Johnstown Flood, noting the terrible loss of life (possibly 10,000) and property, and urging further relief beyond the $100,000 already subscribed in Pittsburgh.
Quality green show the numbers
Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 100.0% 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
- 99.15% 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
- 98.69% 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
- 97.0% (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.
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Full Text
The awful calamity in Pennsylvania should excite the sympathy of the entire country for the sufferers. In Pittsburg $100,000 was promptly subscribed, but much more will be needed to relieve the destitute. At Johnstown and throughout the beautiful valley of the Conemaugh the loss of life has been terrible and can hardly fall short of 10,000 lives. The destruction of property is in the millions. It includes houses, bridges, factories and vast areas of growing crops. The suddenness of the loss makes it all the heart-rending.
What sub-type of article is it?
Social Reform
What keywords are associated?
Johnstown Flood
Pennsylvania Disaster
Relief Fund
Sympathy
Conemaugh Valley
What entities or persons were involved?
Johnstown Flood Victims
Pittsburg Relief Subscribers
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
The Johnstown Flood Disaster And The Need For National Sympathy And Relief
Stance / Tone
Sympathetic And Urgent, Calling For Nationwide Charity
Key Figures
Johnstown Flood Victims
Pittsburg Relief Subscribers
Key Arguments
- The calamity deserves the sympathy of the entire country
- Relief funds are needed beyond the $100,000 already subscribed
- The loss of life and property is immense and heart-rending