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 1 · column 3 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved

Dec. 14, 1996. Three years later George Washington died, 50 years after he is said to have surveyed the town as a young man.
He suggested his listeners read the town’s earliest minutes. Them were regulations on how much wood a homeowner could store on the street and how horses should be hitched so they would not “foul the
69.8%