- Date
- 1908-06
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- newspapersheritagemaritime-historycommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Joyce Bartels’s June 2008 “One Hundred Years Ago” column assembled June 1908 reports from the Charlevoix Courier and Charlevoix Sentinel. The excerpts cover transportation and visitors, Garden Island state land and a proposed park, schools and churches, lumber and fisheries, a life-saving-station site, and construction of an Island opera house.
Evidence limits
This record is an annotated reprint in the 2008 Beacon. For exact historical wording and original page context, consult the cited contemporary newspapers or the held 2008 issue.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, June 2008, "One Hundred Years Ago" from Joyce Bartels.Reprints and annotates June 1908 Charlevoix Courier and Charlevoix Sentinel items about steamer schedules, visitors, Garden Island timber and cemetery lands, schools, lumber, fisheries, the life-saving station site, and the Island opera-house foundation. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held fifty-two-page issue scan confirms the historical roundup.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-06_Beaver-Beacon
Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island 1908 newspaper news roundup published in June 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/beaver-island-1908-news-roundup-june-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 2008, "One Hundred Years Ago" from Joyce Bartels. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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