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Beaver Beacon republishes Beaver Island news from September 1906

Also One Hundred Years Ago, September 2006

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TypeEvent
Date1906-09
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
Event
Date
1906-09
Kind
Publication
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
historypublicationheritagecommunicationshippingfishingagricultureweather
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Joyce Bartels’s September 2006 “One Hundred Years Ago” column republishes September 1906 reporting on the Beaver Island cable repair, visitors and resorters, fish-hatchery work, shipping, agriculture, illness and death, and weather.

Sources

  1. Joyce Bartels, "One Hundred Years Ago," Beaver Beacon, September 2006.
    Reproduces September 1906 Charlevoix Sentinel reports about the Beaver Island telegraph cable repair, a congressional visit, fish-hatchery operations, illness and deaths, land purchases, pea shipments, and steamer and schooner activity, with 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 · 2006-09_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the historical column.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-09_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon republishes Beaver Island news from September 1906”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-one-hundred-years-ago-september-2006-retrospective/, accessed [date], citing Joyce Bartels, "One Hundred Years Ago," Beaver Beacon, September 2006. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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