- Dates
- 1911-01-05 – 1911-01-26
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- publicationheritagemaritimefishingtransportationweather
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 2011 Beacon reprinted January 1911 items from the Charlevoix Courier and Charlevoix Sentinel, supplemented by Frank Protar diary notes. The column describes winter ice and mail navigation, the Beaver Island fisheries industry, the tugs Margaret McCann and Parmelee, and local weather.
Evidence limits
This is a later newspaper republication of earlier newspaper and diary material. It is a useful pointer to those sources, not a substitute for the original issues or a complete January 1911 register.
Sources
See the sources block above.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, January 2011, "One Hundred Years Ago."Reprints January 1911 Charlevoix Courier and Sentinel items on the tug Violet, frozen harbor and mail service, Beaver Island fisheries, the Margaret McCann's difficult winter trip, the tug Parmelee, and Protar diary weather notes. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2011-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the retrospective column.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2011-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon reprints Beaver Island news from January 1911”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-one-hundred-years-ago-january-1911/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 2011, "One Hundred Years Ago." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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