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February 2009 issue reprints Beaver Island notices from February 1909

Also One Hundred Years Ago February 1909 Beaver Island

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TypeEvent
Date1909-02
WithinBeaver Island · Charlevoix
ErasModern era
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Beaver Island · Charlevoix

Summary

The February 2009 Beacon reprinted February 1909 notices about icebound tugs, mail routes, navigation, fishing, illness, births, social events, and Island winter conditions, supplemented by F. Protar diary weather notes.

Evidence limits

This is a later editorial reprint and diary-note compilation, not the complete 1909 newspaper run, vessel log, or calibrated weather series.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, February 2009, "One Hundred Years Ago."
    Reprints February 1909 notices about the Violet and Margaret McCann in ice, mail and navigation, fishing, illness, births, a brass band, and Island winter conditions. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2009-02_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the historical reprint.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2009-02_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “February 2009 issue reprints Beaver Island notices from February 1909”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-one-hundred-years-ago-february-1909/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 2009, "One Hundred Years Ago." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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