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Fox Islands corpus record: Beaver Beacon, 1964-10

Also 42cb20e186d763472449031178cb9becfa389e83af9acbb048b06ae34d258b4a

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Date1964-10
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
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Summary

The audit matched the name Fox Islands in a Beaver Beacon issue, dated October 1964. It kept the body as a local mention because the same body also names Beaver Island and Michigan, with one other local names. What follows is the indexed context. The page holds more.

Indexed context

rain up with two engines and make four trips a day. During the summer months, tugs would tow booms of logs up from the head to feed the mill. At this rate it was no wonder the timber was taken off so fast. From 1915 to 1935, my brother, Erwin, a hired hand and I commercial fished with the tug “Silver Star”. These were the days when catches were measured in tons not pounds. I remember one December during this period, when we were caught off the Fox Islands in foul weather for ten days. It was freezing too hard to lift our nets, so it was just a matter of waiting it out and shifting anchor from one lee to the other around the Island. Between 1935 and 1937 I served with Captain Allers on the Conservation Patrol Boat No. 1. We patrolled all of Michigan waters, from Michigan City to Isle Royal, in Lake Superior. I went back to commercial fishing again from 1937 to 1940, with Roland McCann on the tug

Scope and limits

A mention is not an event. Where a held source supports one, a curated article under event/ carries the claim and this record is only its evidence. Deduplication here suppresses byte-identical bodies alone, so a second OCR edition of the same page is still a second record. The name is not unique to Michigan either, which is why the audit tests for a local cue at all. Read the cited source before you cite it.

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Sources

  1. Content SHA-256 42cb20e186d763472449031178cb9becfa389e83af9acbb048b06ae34d258b4a; source family beaver_beacon_ocr; matched phrase 'Fox Islands'; local cues beaver, michigan, saint_james. The excerpt is a discovery aid, not a complete transcription.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1964-10_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held five-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1964-10_Beaver-Beacon

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Fox Islands corpus record: Beaver Beacon, 1964-10”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/fox-islands-corpus-record-42cb20e186d7/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, indexed by the Fox Islands corpus audit. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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