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1916–17
A mis-grounded house is corrected here, and the correction is stated in terms. The businesses fragment states that no shoemaker stands in 1916–17. That is correct at town-entry strength — the p. 776 entry names none — and it is corrected at classified strength: Polk's 1916–17 classified Shoemakers list (pt. 3, p. 1792) reads "Webb Howard — Lagro / [name lost in text layer] — Lakeville / Sigel Jacob — Lapel / Simon Wm — LaPorte." A Lakeville place-tag stands in the classified list; the maker's name is detached in the transcription text layer and is not recoverable from it. A shoemaker therefore practised at Lakeville in 1916–17, on the classified list's evidence, and the banked absence stands corrected. A second name, "Kron Jacob," floats unattached in the same scrambled page — a candidate at scramble strength only, Jacob Kron having been Lakeville's shoemaker in all three 1880s editions; no attachment is made. (A snippet misread made earlier — "Falls F. G." — belongs to Kouts, not Lakeville, and is withdrawn here.) The firm was missed because it stood in the classified volume only; the businesses leg worked the town entry. The earlier village course, for context: Thayer and Kron (1880–81); Thayer and Kron (1882–83); Graphard, Kron and Thayer — three makers (1884–85). Settler for the name: the page image of pt. 3, p. 1792 (image row's note).