Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 4 · column 3 of 6 · from the scan, no model involved

Telephone
reform sought
To the Editor
Does a county with less than 7,000 people really need six separate telephone exchanges (364, 547, 635, 675,937 and 987).
Does the 937 exchange really need to be able to call locally into a fourth county before it can even call its own county seat. 937 is called
86.5%