Beaver Island telephone-company representatives attend a Lansing meeting, 1962

Locator map: Lansing highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Took place at LansingLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Event

Date: to 1962-10
Kind: Meeting
Where: Lansing
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communicationcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The October 1962 Beaver Beacon reports Joseph and Mrs. Dillingham attending a meeting of independent telephone companies in Lansing.

Evidence and limits

The brief notice does not identify the company represented, the agenda, or any resulting change to Island telephone service.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, October 1962, “Telephone News.”
Reports Joseph and Mrs. Dillingham attending a meeting of independent telephone companies in Lansing, with a separate family wedding trip in Detroit.
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Beaver Beacon, October 1962, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held five-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published telephone notice; it does not identify the meeting agenda or company represented.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island telephone-company representatives attend a Lansing meeting, 1962”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-independent-telephone-companies-meeting-1962/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 1962, “Telephone News.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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