- Date
- 1914-03
- Kind
- Announcement
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationinfrastructurehistory
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The March 2014 Beaver Beacon reprints a March 1914 report about efforts to connect Beaver Island’s cable directly with Bell telephone lines. The account describes earlier Weather Bureau and telephone-company negotiations and tests, but does not establish that the proposed system was completed.
Evidence limits
This record is based on a later reprint of a historical newspaper account. The reprint preserves the negotiation history but does not independently verify the engineering work or final connection.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, March 2014, "One Hundred Years Ago," reprinting the Charlevoix Sentinel report "Change of System Beaver Island Cable to Pass into Direct Connection with Bell Telephone Lines."The reprinted report recounts earlier negotiations and tests involving the Beaver Island cable, the Weather Bureau, and Bell telephone offices, and says a direct connection was being pursued in 1914. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2014-03_Beaver-Beacon
- The held March issue scan confirms the reproduced cable and telephone report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2014-03_Beaver-Beacon
- Beaver Beacon, April-May 2014, "One Hundred Years Ago."Reprints the April 1, 1914 report that the Beaver Island cable headquarters moved from the Western Union office to the Michigan State Telephone Company's main office, allowing business with the Island over the regular telephone line. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2014-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held April-May issue scan confirms the cable-system change report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2014-05_Beaver-Beacon
Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island pursues a direct Bell telephone connection for its cable”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-cable-bell-telephone-connection-1914/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 2014, "One Hundred Years Ago," reprinting the Charlevoix Sentinel report "Change of System Beaver Island Cable to Pass into Direct Connection with Bell Telephone Lines." (and 3 further sources listed on the page).
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