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Fox Islands corpus record: Beaver Beacon, 1964-02

Also aea9ea9a232e669e8aab476af05251cd69fdf130d7af78652aef69045728848e

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TypeDataset
Date1964-02
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
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Summary

The audit matched the name FOX ISLANDS in a Beaver Beacon issue, dated February 1964. It kept the body as a local mention because the same body also names Beaver Island and Charlevoix, with four other local names. What follows is the indexed context. The page holds more.

Indexed context

1849 September 19, 1851 February 24, 1852 June 27, 1856 August 1, 1856 September 19, 1857 May 16, 1861 December 1, 1862 November 20, 1863 December 19, 1868 November 4, 1881 December 6, 1881Postmasters Michael J. McCann William W. Boyle Frank J. Nackerman Dates of Appointment April 2, 1903 July 3, 1903 January 23, 1923 (acting) March 9, 1923 (commissioned) August 15, 1939 (acting) February 20, 1940 (commissioned) FOX ISLANDS, LEELANAU COUNTY, MICHIGAN Established as a fourth class office on March 11, 1906 Discontinued on November 30, 1917 Postmasters John O. Plank Dates of Appointment March 11, 1906 HIGH ISLAND, CHARLEVOIX COUNTY, MICHIGAN Established as a fourth class office on June 5, 1913 Discontinued on June 15, 1914 Postmasters Gladys Hill Dates of Appointment June 5, 1913 NOMAD, CHARLEVOIX COUNTY, MICHIGAN Established as a fourth class office on

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.

See also

Sources

  1. Content SHA-256 aea9ea9a232e669e8aab476af05251cd69fdf130d7af78652aef69045728848e; source family beaver_beacon_ocr; matched phrase 'FOX ISLANDS'; local cues beaver, charlevoix, leelanau, manitou, michigan, saint_james. The excerpt is a discovery aid, not a complete transcription.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1964-02_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held seven-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 · 1964-02_Beaver-Beacon

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

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Fox Islands corpus record: Beaver Beacon, 1964-02”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/fox-islands-corpus-record-aea9ea9a232e/, 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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