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Press and journal record swept for Union Township, 1921–1925,; banked this history as the frame
Indiana's 1920s Klan was a mass movement with a statehouse, and the test is whether it touched this township in the record — it did not, at any strength reached, and the negative prints with its searches and its settler. The searches, as run: the press and magazine record swept for a Klan organisation, rally, cross-burning, boycott or threat in Lakeville or Union Township in the Klan years — no item returned. The banked wars article's unrest limb, which sweeps the town's record for racial unrest across its whole course, stands negative and is not re-run. The township's Black population in the Klan decade was, on the dispersal course in the companion article, already gone — the settlement's families stood in South Bend by 1900 — so the test's expected object, an anti-settlement action, had no settlement left to act against; that is context, printed as context, not as an explanation of the silence. The settler stands named and current: the South Bend Tribune and the Hoosier State Chronicles newspaper corpus, 1921–1925, read at first hand for the township — neither swept page by page — and the item closes as a reached-strength negative with that residue.