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1875–1917 at directory strength · Chapman (1880); Polk 1880–81, 1884–85, 1916–17; the banked dealerships and civic record
The homebuilder test asks for a car constructed here one at a time, builder by builder. H., Polk 1916–17), the repair trade that follows it, and a Corvette club seat of 1997 ruling date (this history lk-civ-machines) — no builder, no one-off construction, no named homebuilt machine in the county histories or directories swept. The negative prints at that strength; its settler is the Lakeville Standard run, where a homebuilt car in a town this size would have been news. The crossover test asks whether the town's carriage-age house built an automobile, whole. The candidates are closed and named in the banked file: Perry E., wagonmaker (Polk 1880–81 and 1884–85), and the blacksmiths Bachtall David, Werntz Hiram and Werntz Isaac (Dealerships lk-dlr-horse-trades). Against each, the record shows no continuation into the motor age: Perry's wagonmaking line ends with the 1884–85 canvass in the editions swept, no Perry automobile, motor-buggy or garage entry follows in 1916–17, and no blacksmith of the three reappears as a garage or dealer. The crossover therefore prints as a tested negative at directory strength — the wagonmaker stayed a wagonmaker in every carrier reached — with the Standard advertising run and the 1920s Polk editions, not yet read first-hand for Lakeville, as its named settlers for record strength.