Dirty Poetry

[bibliotechy]

Poems made from the dirtiest OCR data available from the Library of Congress's Chronicling America dataset of historical Newspapers.

And by dirty, I mean OCR that looks like:

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J to, 5 ;S0 p. in. and l.'. 'll .. in. Trains connect at
and aouttt, ot ! a. in., !?..; and 3.1ft p. m. The
(."tli tour, iloii, lm-me-fi in ;ih istiite-.

y tho?

Every data project starts with a long slog of cleaning up the data to be useful. Well, this project is conceived under the idea of
"What if we leaned into our bad data? What if we took it on it's own terms, and didn't judge it. Where might it take us?"

And the answer is: this absolute nonsense right here.

SHOW ME THE POEMS

They looks like this:

»-„aI obituary poetry not be submitted for publi



i Groceries at No. Mnu, Street "(..L
u^ Fred a Brown and ·οη Willian
kj i u si vie ta.-. ,y-,,jin
luring the last half centur; . Not le..-l


soiac of tin ir make :i: .!. - iin
Rheumatism, gout, obesity and nenrous diseases =^£l
, i pi',. I II llr'llllll. lei Hllls.hl.il
roiicr.il strike order to he o(T...-'l\o Mnn


should ('(Pine directly from th,* Island**. Tbe
b-!a.'. n.a ii,!i. n tor the e.ir. il,
G. L. Ouklns, Or W ';: Miss attie Mors,
r," "Yes, sir, we got a parrot."--E


covi ?:\.-? loi: a BOX U BEBT LIT.
upon ?getting away at eon .? i??? tibie
upon ?getting away at eon .? i??? tibie
Tsmphlet i-ont Irio I y t ? ..;lil.i!ir v :.


fra la vie 25. ma e .'<ma
1 .n is for ile ehaaa n .a ?.??.
Nik lini weal Main street, 10 rooms. ?.".00.
Gel mm explicitly am.ojniC.-. that German subma


ETHlott, cnorai freight agent of Ihe gt. I.?.
Joseph Bond, af Mjcc-,, t? made thia
fra la vie 25. ma e .'<ma
giqe.-L'iar 4e M a do £.-O. du 23.


SE'f'Tlt’ tank*, pump*. cbem:-.*l tn a'*
^ i,.;,,rj,,u-. ?? -i :i ii) tha Deutocratk borough of Man*
•» «»*d hf are —and II they hay* /
BC_of, .?uuiiii | ;_? all u tiiau- a. i_


1 ii- booka of ii.... . i p. n.
1.  UMBSEN A C 0.,-1 Montgomery st.
. 1 95 Columbus street......... New Orleans.
r.o,u!r«>d da?n: Th«- hour of >-«.ur birth a. m.

More poems, plus a short write up and the code at https://github.com/bibliotechy/dirty-poetry

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