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The Virginia Gazette Foreign News April 25, 1766
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
What is this article about?
Universal joy in the city at hopes of the Stamp Act being repealed; church bells rang from morning to night and houses were illuminated, including Mr. Hose's shoemaker with 45 lights, and several coffee houses and taverns.
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
- 97.08% 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
- 99.87% 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
Saturday last there was an universal joy to be seen in the countenances of every lover of trade in the city, on the hopes of the Stamp Act being repealed, that the merchant as well as the mechanick may once more hope to be able to pay their just debts, and the manufactures be enabled to employ the poor, who have been too considerable a time destitute of the common necessaries of life. The bells in most churches rang from morning until night, and the following houses were illuminated, viz. Mr. Hose's, shoemaker, in Cheapside, where were exactly 45 lights; a hosier in the same neighbourhood; the Carolina and Pennsylvania coffee-houses in Birchin lane; the New York, Grigsby's, Portugal, Edinburgh, and Amsterdam coffee houses; and the Cork tavern and eating house.
What sub-type of article is it?
Political
Social Customs
What keywords are associated?
Stamp Act Repeal Celebration
Illuminations London
Where did it happen?
London
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
London
Event Date
Saturday Last