Fox Islands corpus record: sn83026172 1856 04 15 ed1 p3, 1856-04-15

Summary

The audit matched the name South Fox Island in a Chronicling America page, sn83026172_1856-04-15_ed1_p3, dated 15 April 1856. 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

is sent by a man on snow shoes eighty miles and back at my private expense, I do not get off Our winter so far has been but one or two a month. very fine, though a little cooler than usual; but the field of ice is immense, beyond all example. I think there is two thousand square miles more of ice north of the Ma niton Islands than have been known before within the date of the earliest tradition. Nine feet of ice was found by cutting through off South Fox Island, where ice was never seen before. This is to be attributed as much to the stillness of the water as to the severity of the cold. Very little ice is banked. Most of it remains undisturb ed where first formed. THE PEACE CONFERENCE AT PARIS. The discord alluded to in our Telegraphic report of yesterday as having occurred in the Peace Con ference at Paris is noticed as follows by the corre spondent of the London Times: PARIS, (Sunday,) Mabch 23—6 P.

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