- Date
- 1911-07-11
- Kind
- Disaster
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- heritagecommunicationmaritimedisaster
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The combined issue publishes Alice Norling’s first-person memory of surviving the 1911 AuSable–Oscoda fire and escaping with her children aboard the Niko.
Evidence and limits
This is a retrospective memory published in the newspaper, not an independently verified fire, passenger, vessel, or casualty record.
Sources
- Publishes Alice Norling’s first-person account of the 1911 fire, evacuation with her children aboard the steamer Niko, separation and reunion with her husband, and the death of his grandfather. It is a retrospective memory published in the newspaper, not an independently verified fire, passenger, vessel, or casualty record. 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 · 1979-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held ten-page combined February–March issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published memory.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1979-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon publishes Alice Norling’s 1911 AuSable–Oscoda fire memory, 1979”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ausable-oscoda-fire-memory-1979/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February–March 1979, “Beaver Tales: AuSable–Oscoda Fire.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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