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The coffee line: a listing word and a supper urn, no roaster

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Coffee was sold in Lakeville for a century before it was ever a business here, and the sweep for the business — an importer, a roaster, a coffee house, a rebrand — returns the listing word and nothing behind it. The traces, whole: the Lakeville One Stop's own listing describes the store with "hot coffee" among its goods, in the banked November 2026 census; the Lions' documented menus run coffee and lemonade with the meal, at supper strength; and the general stores of every bench sold coffee as a shelf good without ever printing the word as a trade. No coffee roaster, importer, coffee house or café under a coffee name stands in any gazetteer bench, classified heading or present-day listing reached. The town's coffee line is therefore a true-size negative: coffee as a commodity everywhere, coffee as a firm nowhere, printed with the sweeps shown.

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Source: The coffee line: a listing word and a supper urn, no roaster, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/food/coffee-line-a-listing-word-and-a-supper-urn/