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Business Gaps
The gap discipline, stated and kept
SECOND PASS · NOVEMBER 2026
This pass is the register. Its catches sort by the way they were missed. Missed for want of a heading: the trades — undertaking, printing, ice, coal-dealing, laundry — which no corridor tenancy list and no broker flyer will ever…
The other plow works: the rivals the flagship's story swallowed
1871–1925 · BOUNDARY SIZE, SOUTH BEND GROUND · GRANGER SHARE STATED
These works are boundary material, printed at boundary size, with the Granger share stated at this article's end. The plow works that was not Oliver was the South Bend Chilled Plow Company, and it was a Knoblock house before it…
Across the bridge: the Knoblock works, wagons to magnetos
1871–1920 · BOUNDARY SPINE WITH THE GROUND'S OWN BRIDGES
How missed: in pieces. No firm was carried across an era bridge whole. The county's type case of the bridge is the Knoblock works, and Howard's 1907 county history carries it in consecutive sections, which is how it escaped…
The service and professional foundings the industrial pass could not see
1918–2025 · BOUNDARY FOUNDINGS AT FULL STRENGTH · THE GROUND'S OWN TEST PRINTED
The founded-here finance, accounting and survey classes were never swept. Swept now, they resolve into two boundary foundings at full strength, one founding that would not verify, and a tested negative for the ground itself.
The trades whole: undertakers, and the trades with no heading
1842–PRESENT · THE UNDERDAKER LINE AT FULL STRENGTH · THE REST AT THE STRENGTH REACHED
How missed: the trades have no corridor. The gazetteer and directory headings are the catching net, and they were run heading by heading; what they caught, and what they provably did not, follows.
The Second Rank of Businesses, From Named Sources
THE SWEEP AND ITS SOURCES · RUN NOVEMBER 2026
The method of this section is printed here so the sweep can be re-run. Three named sources were worked, in this order. First, Timothy Edward Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (1907), vol. 1, ch. VIII §3 and the…
Firms and Trades Not Found in the Record
EACH MISS NAMED, WITH THE RECORD CLASS THAT WOULD SETTLE IT
A gap leg owes its reader the residue, named. These are the firms and trades the sweep did not find, each with the record class that would settle it. The Economist plow works — a fourth chilled-plow name the checklist pattern…