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Beaver Island-connected hospital and injury notices, April 1968

Also April 1968 Beaver Island hospital notes

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TypeEvent
Datecirca 1968-04
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Date
circa 1968-04
Kind
Medical
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
healthcarecommunity
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The April 1968 Beaver Beacon reported that Perry Crawford and Rogers Carlisle were patients at Little Traverse Hospital in Petoskey. It also reported Archie Minor injured while painting his ship in Duluth and Warren Townsend at Blodgett Hospital in Grand Rapids after a leg amputation.

Evidence and limits

These are brief community health notices, not medical records. They do not establish diagnoses beyond the newspaper wording, treatment details, or complete identities.

Sources

  1. Reports Perry Crawford and Rogers Carlisle at Little Traverse Hospital, Archie Minor injured while painting his ship in Duluth, and Warren Townsend at Blodgett Hospital after a leg amputation; it does not provide medical records or complete identities.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1968-04_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held six-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published hospital notices.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1968-04_Beaver-Beacon

Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island-connected hospital and injury notices, April 1968”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-hospital-notes-april-1968/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1968, “Hospital Notes.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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