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Fox Islands corpus record: sn85026466 1856 05 07 ed1 p1, 1856-05-07

Also a5db0a88b1585ffdb555f42c258b62051f5c39f15495d071ac0a0871d8b4b771

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Date1856-05-07
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
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Summary

The audit matched the name South Fox Island in a Chronicling America page, sn85026466_1856-05-07_ed1_p1, dated 7 May 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

nt by a man on snow shoes, eightv miles and back, at my privato expense, I do not.get off but ono or two a month. Our winter, so far, has been very fine, though a little cooler than usual, but the field of ico is immense,’ beyond all exam ple. I think thero is two thousand squaro miles more of ico north of the Maniton Is lands than have been known before within the dato of tho earliest tradition. Nino feet of ico was found by cutting through off South Fox Island, where Ice wa3 never seen before. This is to bo attributed as much to tho still ness of tho water as to tho severity of tho cold. Very little ice is banked. Most of it remains undisturbed where first formed.“ The Rage for Fiction. “I want a paper that has long stories in it,” said a young lady; and added, “I don’t want a paper lor anything else.” Poor girl much to bo pitied, and pitiful appearano she will make through life, at tho present rato.

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. sn85026466 1856 05 07 ed1 p1, indexed by the Fox Islands corpus audit.
    Content SHA-256 a5db0a88b1585ffdb555f42c258b62051f5c39f15495d071ac0a0871d8b4b771; source family chronicling_america; matched phrase 'South\nFox Island'; local cues directional_name:south. The excerpt is a discovery aid, not a complete transcription. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    federal · chronicling_america · sn85026466_1856-05-07_ed1_p1

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

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Beaver Island Archive, “Fox Islands corpus record: sn85026466 1856 05 07 ed1 p1, 1856-05-07”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/fox-islands-corpus-record-a5db0a88b158/, accessed [date], citing sn85026466 1856 05 07 ed1 p1, indexed by the Fox Islands corpus audit..

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