- Date
- 1912-04
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Early Modern era
- Concepts
- historycommunicationmaritimeweatherfishinggovernance
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The April 2012 Beaver Beacon’s “One Hundred Years Ago” column recalls April 1912 voting, mail and boat communication, fishing-law debates, small-craft warnings, and Island news.
Evidence limits
This is a later newspaper retrospective and does not replace the 1912 source newspapers or government records.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, April 2012, "One Hundred Years Ago."Summarizes 1912 local-option voting, the first boat mail and navigation, improved winter communication, small-craft warnings, fish-net legislation, fishing news, and an Island house fire. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2012-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held April issue scan confirms the historical retrospective.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2012-04_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “The April 2012 Beacon recalls Beaver Island news from 1912”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-one-hundred-years-ago-april-1912/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2012, "One Hundred Years Ago." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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