Fox Islands corpus record: sn86075250 1923 07 06 ed1 p6, 1923-07-06

Summary

The audit matched the name Fox Islands in a Chronicling America page, sn86075250_1923-07-06_ed1_p6, dated 6 July 1923. 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 bad “clos.il” for the winter. Further up the har bor, beyond Number 25. glowed the white lanterns marking two vessels moored and “laid up” till spring; an other waa still in the active process of “laying up.” Narine Insurance, as re gards all ordinary craft, had ceased; and the government at sunrise, five days before, had taken the warning lights from the Straits of Mackinaw, from Be-aux-Galeta, from north Mani tou. and the Fox Islands; and the light at Beaver Island had but Ove nights more to burn. Having no particular duty when the boat waa In dock, old Burr had gone toward the steamer “laying up.“ un<l now waa standing watching with ale aorptlon the work going on. There was a tug a little farther along, with steam 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

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