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Fox Islands corpus record: Beaver Beacon, 1973-07

Also 42cc6f26819ff17bd71d0f063507b794ad7f8d9ad1e9b2e2bdeac3a3aa98aecd

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TypeDataset
Date1973-07
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
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Summary

The audit matched the name Fox Islands in a Beaver Beacon issue, dated July 1973. It kept the body as a local mention because the same body also names Beaver Island and Charlevoix, with four other local names. What follows is the indexed context. The page holds more.

Indexed context

hn O. Mala December 1, 1862 Charles R. Wright November 20, 1863 December 19, 1868 George Miller November 4, 1881 James Gibson December 6, 1881Postmasters Dates of Appointment Ida Gibson April 2, 1903 Michael J. McCann July 3, 1903 William W. Boyle January 23, 1923 (Acting) March 9, 1923 (Commissioned) Frank J. Nackerman August 15, 1939 (Acting) February 20, 1940 (Commissioned) Mary C. Minor July 1, 1973 (Official in Charge) Fox Islands, Leelanau County, Michigan Established as a Fourth Class Office on March 11, 1906 Discontinued on November 30, 1917 Postmaster - John O. Plank Appointed March 11, 1906 High Island, Charlevoix County, Michigan Established as a Fourth Class Office on June 5, 1913 Discontinued on June 15, 1914 Postmaster - Gladys Hill Appointed June 5, 1913 Nomad, Charlevoix County, Michigan Established as a Fourth Class Office on March 10, 1917 Discont

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.

See also

Sources

  1. Content SHA-256 42cc6f26819ff17bd71d0f063507b794ad7f8d9ad1e9b2e2bdeac3a3aa98aecd; source family beaver_beacon_ocr; matched phrase 'Fox Islands'; local cues beaver, charlevoix, leelanau, manitou, michigan, saint_james. The excerpt is a discovery aid, not a complete transcription.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1973-07_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eleven-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the indexed body context; it does not expand the published source-specific identity or historical claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1973-07_Beaver-Beacon

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

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Fox Islands corpus record: Beaver Beacon, 1973-07”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/fox-islands-corpus-record-42cc6f26819f/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 1973, remote OCR body indexed by the Fox Islands corpus audit. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-03. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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