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Fox Islands corpus record: Beaver Beacon, 1964-01

Also 52e008b1cf8cfded0082998aa6b6990ac30726d84f9d056772e7f9851a8f7395

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TypeDataset
Date1964-01
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
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1964-01
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Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

The audit matched the name South Fox Island in a Beaver Beacon issue, dated January 1964. It kept the body as a local mention because the mention names South Fox by direction rather than a bare Fox Island. What follows is the indexed context. The page holds more.

Indexed context

the story is positive and points out the fact that love often times drives a man to action that under normal circumstances, he would never think of. Johnny Malloy was a big strapping lad in his early twenties and very much in love with an Island girl. Because of his size, Johnny had acquired the nickname of Johnny Buffalo. He was built like a pine stump and not an ounce of fat on him. He was a good man in the woods and timber was being cut on South Fox Island, so early in the fall, Johnny sailed to the Foxes to work. The work was hard and the days were long. On clear days he could easily see the head of Beaver Island, where his Irish lass was. A logging camp is a lonely place for a young lad and Johnny had made up his mind that when the ice made, he was going to bridge that gap. Winter was coming on with ice forming along the shore, and each day freezing out just a little further. Currents between t

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 52e008b1cf8cfded0082998aa6b6990ac30726d84f9d056772e7f9851a8f7395; source family beaver_beacon_ocr; matched phrase 'South Fox Island'; local cues directional_name:south. The excerpt is a discovery aid, not a complete transcription.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1964-01_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held six-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 · 1964-01_Beaver-Beacon

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

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Fox Islands corpus record: Beaver Beacon, 1964-01”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/fox-islands-corpus-record-52e008b1cf8c/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, 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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