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1916–1949 · Polk 1916–17 (banked, first-hand); the 1949 Polk gazetteer named as settler, not yet read for Lakeville
The census limb of this item stands whole in the banked file — Polk 1916–17, garages 1, automobile dealers 0 — and its companion limbs print at their opposite strengths: the show as a searched negative, the postwar canvass as a named gap. The first auto-trade show: no Lakeville auto show, dealer exhibition or trade-association show stands in any carrier reached in this section — no Standard or Tribune auto-show notice naming this town was returned — and a town whose first census counts zero dealers is printed as having no reached show to date: the negative stands at searched strength, its settler the Standard and Tribune auto-show record read first-hand. The first postwar canvass is a different closure and prints differently: the checklist asks for the field counted at the first postwar year, on the Mishawaka pattern of eight sellers in 1949. That count lives in exactly one carrier class — the 1949 Polk gazetteer and the South Bend directories of the same years — and neither has been read first-hand for Lakeville in the banked build or in this section. The item therefore banks as a named gap, current as of November 2026: settler, the 1949 Polk Indiana gazetteer's Lakeville entry read first-hand, with the count printed as the canvass gives it — garages, dealers, and repair headings each as classified — when that read is made. No figure is estimated here from the 1916–17 census or the present listings; a canvass is a count, and a count is not inferred.