Name: December 1904 Beaver Island newspaper notices are reprinted in the Beacon
Start: 2004-12
End: 2004-12
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2004-12
Kind: Publication
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: publicationhistoryheritagemaritimecommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The December 2004 Beacon’s “One Hundred Years Ago” column reprints Charlevoix Sentinel notices from December 1904, covering fishing-season layup, navigation and mail, agricultural contracts, and the Island’s expected growth in population, settlement, and communications.

Evidence limits

This record concerns the 2004 newspaper republication; the original Sentinel items remain the primary sources for the 1904 claims.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, December 2004, "One Hundred Years Ago."
Joyce Bartels reprints December 1904 Charlevoix Sentinel items about spawn fishing, mail and navigation, farming, and Island communications and settlement. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, December 2004, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the historical retrospective.
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Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “December 1904 Beaver Island newspaper notices are reprinted in the Beacon”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-one-hundred-years-ago-december-1904/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 2004, "One Hundred Years Ago." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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