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The New Hampshire Gazette Story January 25, 1794
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
During the Philadelphia fever, a man abandoned his dying wife and bought a coffin for her; she recovered, but he took sick and was buried in that very coffin.
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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
- 96.2% 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
- 98.19% 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
BARBARITY.
The following instance of inhumanity is recorded in Mr. Carey's account of the Philadelphia fever: “The wife of a man who lived in Walnut street, was seized with the malignant fever, and given over by the doctors. The husband abandoned her, and next night lay out of the house for fear of taking the infection. In the morning, taking it for granted from the very low state she had been in, that she was dead, he purchased a coffin for her; but on entering the house was surprised to see her much recovered. He took sick shortly after, and was buried in the very coffin which he had so precipitately bought for his wife, who is still living.”
The following instance of inhumanity is recorded in Mr. Carey's account of the Philadelphia fever: “The wife of a man who lived in Walnut street, was seized with the malignant fever, and given over by the doctors. The husband abandoned her, and next night lay out of the house for fear of taking the infection. In the morning, taking it for granted from the very low state she had been in, that she was dead, he purchased a coffin for her; but on entering the house was surprised to see her much recovered. He took sick shortly after, and was buried in the very coffin which he had so precipitately bought for his wife, who is still living.”
What sub-type of article is it?
Tragedy
Family Drama
Moral Essay
What themes does it touch?
Betrayal
Misfortune
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Philadelphia Fever
Abandoned Wife
Coffin
Inhumanity
Where did it happen?
Philadelphia (Walnut Street)
Story Details
Location
Philadelphia (Walnut Street)
Event Date
During The Philadelphia Fever (1793)