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The Evening Statesman Story February 10, 1908
Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington
What is this article about?
A New York divorce revealed that Homer B. Ford allegedly used the San Francisco earthquake to fake his death and elope with his mistress, while his wife mourned him.
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
- 98.89% 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
- 99.75% 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.
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Full Text
EARTHQUAKE AIDS "AFFINITY" WORSHIP
FRISCO DISASTER REVEALS DOMESTIC TRAGEDY IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Earthquake and fire as an aid to affinity worship is the revelation made in a divorce granted today to Mrs. Salome V. Ford of Brooklyn.
She alleges her husband, Homer B. Ford, utilized the San Francisco horror to make her believe him dead, so he could run away with his affinity.
Ford was a street fair carnival artist and was apparently devoted to his wife until he went to San Francisco several months before the earthquake. His letters ceased after the shock and she mourned him as dead. Seeking to identify the body by certain marks she wrote to the relief committee and learned that Ford and wife had been sent to Seattle. Through her lawyer there she learned that Ford was living with his affinity.
FRISCO DISASTER REVEALS DOMESTIC TRAGEDY IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Earthquake and fire as an aid to affinity worship is the revelation made in a divorce granted today to Mrs. Salome V. Ford of Brooklyn.
She alleges her husband, Homer B. Ford, utilized the San Francisco horror to make her believe him dead, so he could run away with his affinity.
Ford was a street fair carnival artist and was apparently devoted to his wife until he went to San Francisco several months before the earthquake. His letters ceased after the shock and she mourned him as dead. Seeking to identify the body by certain marks she wrote to the relief committee and learned that Ford and wife had been sent to Seattle. Through her lawyer there she learned that Ford was living with his affinity.
What sub-type of article is it?
Deception Fraud
Family Drama
What themes does it touch?
Deception
Betrayal
What keywords are associated?
Divorce
Earthquake
Fake Death
Affinity
What entities or persons were involved?
Salome V. Ford
Homer B. Ford
Where did it happen?
New York; San Francisco; Seattle
Story Details
Key Persons
Salome V. Ford
Homer B. Ford
Location
New York; San Francisco; Seattle
Event Date
Feb. 10