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The Beaver Beacon reprints June 1906 island news in its One Hundred Years Ago column

Also Beaver Island One Hundred Years Ago June 1906

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TypeEvent
Date1906-06
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Date
1906-06
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Modern era
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Beaver Island

Summary

The June 2006 Beaver Beacon reprinted June 1906 news from the Charlevoix Sentinel and notes from Feodor Protar. The column covers a telegraph line to the Church Hill weather station, a new daily summer mail and steamer schedule, deaths, migration, construction, lumbering, visitors, church missions, and weather observations.

Evidence limits

This record identifies the 2006 newspaper’s retrospective column. The quoted 1906 reports remain newspaper sources and are not independently checked here against the original Sentinel issues or Protar’s complete diary.

Sources

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Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, June 2006, "One Hundred Years Ago."
    Reprints June 1906 reports of a telegraph line, daily summer mail and steamer schedule, deaths, migration, construction, lumbering, church missions, visitors, and F. Protar 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 · 2006-06_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the historical column and its source attributions.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-06_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “The Beaver Beacon reprints June 1906 island news in its One Hundred Years Ago column”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-one-hundred-years-ago-june-1906/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 2006, "One Hundred Years Ago." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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