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February 1978 Beaver Island hospital and accident notes

Also February 1978 Beaver Beacon Hospital Notes

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TypeEvent
Date1978-02
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Date
1978-02
Kind
Accident
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
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Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The February 1978 Beaver Beacon lists Wanda Bolton and Johnny Kenwabikise as Little Traverse Hospital patients and reports Joe McDonough’s tire-changing accident, hospital transfers, and return home.

Evidence and limits

These are newspaper health and accident notices, not clinical, emergency, or hospital records.

Sources

  1. Reports Wanda Bolton and Johnny Kenwabikise as Little Traverse Hospital patients and says Joe McDonough was injured when a truck tire exploded, transferred through Little Traverse to Munson Hospital, and returned home with stitches. It does not provide clinical, emergency-transport, or hospital records. 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 · 1978-02_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eleven-page February issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the hospital notes.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1978-02_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “February 1978 Beaver Island hospital and accident notes”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-february-1978-hospital-notes/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1978, “Hospital Notes.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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