- Date
- 1989-01
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- historytechnologycommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 1989 Beaver Beacon published Archie LaFreniere’s local account of a claimed early-1930s automatic-washer design project in the King Strang Hotel.
Evidence limits
This is a source-qualified oral or community-history account, not a patent, company, engineering, or property record.
Sources
- Publishes Archie LaFreniere’s account that a Speed Queen employee named Patch secretly worked on an automatic washer design in the King Strang Hotel and later gave LaFreniere the drafting board. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1989-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twenty-page January issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1989-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Archie LaFreniere recounts an automatic-washer invention story, 1989”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-archie-lafreniere-automatic-washer-story-1989/, accessed [date], citing “Did You Know?,” Beaver Beacon, January 1989. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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