Unclear online newspaper images, 2012.

I have been saying that much of the online images of the newspapers done by ulukau are unclear because they were taken from bad microfilms. This is often the case. However, I was just shown a page of Ka Leo o ka Lahui that someone has volunteered to manually type. The online image they received is the same image that is online. It is somewhat legible, but the bottom is totally unclear and would have resulted in strings of @s. I went to the microfilms, and they are actually legible. Here is how this one page compares.

Here is the image of the PDF online.

Here below is an image taken from the microfilm today [to see an enlarged image, click on the image twice]:

Leo o ka Lahui, 2/5/1892, p. 2

Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Buke II, Helu 383, Aoao 2. Feberuari 5, 1892.

For those of you typing pages from this newspaper, you might try looking at the microfilms if you have access to them!

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