Fox Islands corpus record: Gospel Herald 1847, undated

Summary

The audit matched the name Fox Islands in a scanned Internet Archive volume, Gospel_Herald_1847-1850_djvu, which the index carries undated. 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

nts, but its pineries arc very valuable, and the soil is good. It has a beautiful little vlake within it, and has a beautiful harbor, where steam- boats lay. ng iinst the bank without wharves, the water being 10 feet deep only’ 18 feet from shore, and 50 feet in the width of a boat. The fishing stations are principally on small is- lands of from 40 to 300 acres lying around the | larger Islands. We are in hopes to push over j on the Fox Islands early in the spring, before f any body else gets there, and to buy -out the ;j establishment on the Manitous soon. 1 * On these Islands there are no .poor. Land is distributed to ail according to their wants. \ All the necessary measures will be taken to ^ make the titles inalienable, so that none shall ever become landless. By this means, howev- | er poor any one may become, a few years of industry will make him well off. There can b

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