Step 4 implemented

tests/artifacts/transcriptions/Book_Two_-_page_02.jpg.txt

@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ BOOK 1 had 54 pages; 14 chapters. BOOK 2 has 70 pages; 18 chapters. BOOK 1 con-
 sisted largely of first generation family history. BOOK 2 throws more light on
 the second generation. Sidney promises a BOOK 3 and that may begin to do justice
 to the third generation. We suggest that Sidney get the help of Louis Shinn
-who has a chapter in this book (Chapter 16 - The Last 25 Years on the Doumeeq
+who has a chapter in this book (Chapter 16 - The Last 25 Years on the Doumecq
 Plains. Louis has the gift of seeing, recalling and telling. One sentence in
-his chapter gives a great tribute to the Doumeeqers--so far as he knows no one
-on the Doumeeq Plains went on relief during the depression. That in a nutshell
-shows the sturdy character of the residents of the Doumeeq Plains.
+his chapter gives a great tribute to the Doumecqers--so far as he knows no one
+on the Doumecq Plains went on relief during the depression. That in a nutshell
+shows the sturdy character of the residents of the Doumecq Plains.
 
 We promised in BOOK 1 that in BOOK 2 we would give the story of the trip of
 John E. Cochran and wife to Tennessee, Cuba and the Panama Canal. You will see
@@ -32,11 +32,10 @@ enough pictures but we had to take only part of them. We think there are great
 possibilities in reproducing old pictures. We wish we had a Pickard group. Some
 Pickard descendant may wish to make a collection.
 
-We are much impressed with the future possibilities of getting a complete genealog-
+We are much impressed with the future possibilities of getting a complete geneol-
 ogy of the Pickard family. Mr. Cochran has a fine chapter on the Pickards but
 to date we have not had the pleasure of finding all of the family dates. We had
 intended to give more family data in this book but it takes time to get the
 correct dates. Often times it requires trips to cemeteries to get dates on the
 tombstones. Winter is no time to collect dates on tombstones.
-
 -2-

tests/artifacts/transcriptions/Omie_Writes_Home.pdf.txt

@@ -13,8 +13,11 @@ original envelope with its 2 cent stamp. The letter has a number of references t
 children. Peter was Louis; Polly was Edith; and the 'little black rascal' referred to Maurice.
 Miss Saville was the nurse at the Nome Hospital that was mentioned in the article by Inez in
 the family newsletter two years ago.
+
 Nome Alaska August 26, 1923
+
 My Dear Ethel et al.
+
 I don't know when I did write or when you did
 but I am going to write now however and never
 the less. But I wish I could talk (I can yet but I
@@ -23,6 +26,7 @@ and Polly sit up and listen and that little black
 rascal of yours would fairly sparkle with
 listening. Can't I see him listening now to all the
 yarns we told last summer?
+[photo of people on a frozen body of water with icebergs and a boat]
 You see, we-Miss Saville and I, took a trip north
 on the Buford and it was very interesting. We
 went north thru the Bering Strait into the Arctic and as far as the Ice Pack. There the captain
@@ -33,7 +37,6 @@ along the icebergs and the walrus were 'heisted' on board by the use of the cran
 tons of freight and the beasts were so huge that they made the pulleys just creak. They were
 over 12 feet long, as big around as three cows, had no feet but toenails on their flippers or
 flappers, no head but their body just suddenly ended with a hole for a mouth and big bristles
-
 all around it similar to a currycomb in coarseness; no ears but huge tusks of ivory. They are
 the most repulsive looking animals imaginable and tho I have always read about them I never
 expect such disagreeable looking creatures. They had a rough brown hairy skin and some of
@@ -76,7 +79,6 @@ us talk. Miss Saville talked quite a bit. Any how if you folks don't like this I
 all I had to write about and I know Buster'ud listen anyway and I'd soak ole Peter's head if he
 didn't and Polly would in my lap and I don't know much about the youngest one of yours so
 likely he would be squawling. But we did surely enjoy our trip and were gone just long enuf.
-
 I expect there were 150 passengers on board and almost or more of the crew and helpers. We
 had a stateroom down next to the kitchen and 'twas pretty fierce for odor at times.
 

tests/artifacts/transcriptions/Rod_Moser_Letter_-_p1.jpg.txt

@@ -8,24 +8,23 @@ ISBILL & MOSER
 DEALERS IN
 GENERAL MERCHANDISE
 
-Vonore, Tenn. Jany 27 – 1913
-Dear Much Aunt Louie
-How are you—
-few nights ago received a
-letter from your folks, So
-I decided to write you
+Vonore, Tenn. [Janu]ary 27 – 1913
+Dear [Much Au][illegible]
+Has at hour a
+few nigh [ago I] said a
+letter f[rom] your folks, so
+I [decide]d to [write] you
 a few lines myself &
-I am contemplating a
-trip out west next summer
-& would like for [illegible] to go
+I am continuously a
+trip out just next summer
+ & I [want] [lo]t [of figures?] to go
 where I am.
-
-Am getting
+We are getting
 up in years & unmarried
-so you see the object of
+so you see the object o[f]
 my trip is to get a wife
-& if there is any old maid
-or widdow out there, I
+If th[ere] is any old maids
+or widows out there I
 want you to kiss them
-at my [illegible] for me at They
-as soon as I get there
+at my [hand] and my at them
+as soon as I get them