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Summary
Richard LaFrangiere was identified in a June 1945 feature as the bartender-proprietor of the Shamrock Inn, which the account describes as a combination tavern and social center in Saint James.1
Evidence and limits
The source supplies no age, address, family relationships, business records, or dates for LaFrangiere’s proprietorship. The feature’s ambiguous pronoun around a son-in-law relationship is not converted into kinship metadata.
Open questions
- Can business licenses, directories, photographs, or local histories identify LaFrangiere more fully?
- When did he operate the Shamrock Inn, and who succeeded him?
See also
Footnotes
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Charlevoix County Herald, June 29, 1945, “BEAVER ISLAND — Islands have a way of doing things to people.” ↩
Sources
- Charlevoix County Herald, June 29, 1945, “BEAVER ISLAND — Islands have a way of doing things to people.”Identifies Richard LaFrangiere as bartender-proprietor of the Shamrock Inn and describes the inn as a combination tavern and social center; the report does not provide a full civil identity or birth/death dates. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Richard LaFrangiere”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/people/richard-lafrangiere/, accessed [date], citing Charlevoix County Herald, June 29, 1945, “BEAVER ISLAND — Islands have a way of doing things to people.”.
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