Fox Islands corpus record: sn86063381 1922 03 28 ed1 p2, 1922-03-28

Summary

The audit matched the name Fox islands in a Chronicling America page, sn86063381_1922-03-28_ed1_p2, dated 28 March 1922. It kept the body as a local mention because the same body also names Beaver Island. What follows is the indexed context. The page holds more.

Indexed context

ality, navigation now had “closed” for the winter. Further up the har bor, beyond .Number 25, glowed the white lanternB marking two vessels moored and “laid up” till spring an other was still in the active process of “laying up.” Marine insurance, as re gards all ordinary craft, had ceased and the government “nt sunrise, five days before, had taken the warning lights from the Straits of Mackinaw, from Ile-aux-Galets, from north Manl tou, and the Fox islands and the light at Beaver island had but five nights more to burn. Having no particular duty when the boat was in dock, old Burr had gone toward the steamer “laying up,” and now was standing watching with ab sorption the work going on. There was a tug a little farther along, with team up and black smoke pouring from Its short funnel. Old Burr ob served this boat too and moved up a little nearer. Alan, following the wheelsman, came opposite the ste

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.

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