Fox Islands corpus record: East Jordan Journal, 1996-08-28

Summary

The audit matched the name South Fox Island in a page of the East Jordan Journal, dated 28 August 1996. 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

s big bucks By HOPE TYRRELL Everyone worries about government waste. Sometimes, however, the waste occurs, not because of poor judgement on the part of government officials, but because of plain citizen thoughtlessness. Such an incident on Lake Michigan recently cost taxpayers almost $25,000. On Monday, August 5, Coast Guard Station Charlevoix received a distress call from boaters reporting that their vessel was on fire near South Fox Island. Within three minutes, the station dispatched two rescue craft, a 41‘ utility boat and a 21’ rigid hull. Shortly after, Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City sent out a helicopter. Both boats and the helicopter searched for hours, finding nothing. By the time the search was called off and the distress call labelled a hoax, the helicopters had logged 5.8 hours, the utility boat 6.25 hours, and the rigid hull 2.75 hours. Accordi

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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