Fox Islands corpus record: East Jordan News Herald (1953-12-24)

Summary

This source-body record preserves one locally grounded Fox Islands mention. It is an evidence node, not an event claim: generic references remain generic unless a separate curated activity article names a source-specific activity.

Indexed context

of good, wholesome Christmas fun and happiness to all our read- ers and friends. Lumber Mill Seeks Land ‘For Operation Board members and the indus- trial committee of the East Jordan Businessmen’s Association have been ‘discussing the possibility of aiding a large sawmill operation to move to East Jordan. Sterling Nickerson, of King- sley, near Traverse City, a vet-, eran sawmill overator has pur- chased timber rights on Fox Island. fromthe Conservation department. 7 ‘Nickerson and his associates have made several trips to Hast Jordan to secure a site for landing lumber ‘boats and sawing up the lumber. The operation, Nickerson, said would employ about 40 men on the Island next summer and about 15 here at the mill. He expects the operation will last about three years. The lumber would be cut on the Island, shipped to East. Jordan by boat, sawed and ship

Scope and limits

The audit classified this body as local because it uses a directional Fox name or a Michigan/Beaver cue. Exact-body deduplication suppresses only byte-identical mirrors; alternate OCR editions may remain separate. Check the cited source before making a historical claim.

See also

• Beaver Island archipelago