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Polk 1916–17, p. 776 and the classified lists, read in the banked dealerships pass; this article states the bridge test
Lakeville's first garage stands in one line — Kloppenstein O. H., garage — and the bridge test beside it returns the motor age and the horse age standing in the same edition, in two different firms, with no firm carried across. The garage: O. H. Kloppenstein's garage line in the 1916–17 bench is the town's sole automobile line in any directory the build holds — one garage, and no automobile dealer named in any edition (the gazetteer's own count, garages one, dealers none). Whether Kloppenstein sold cars, the bench does not state; the dealerships article prints the line at that strength, and a garage-that-sold would be a dealer only by a record no carrier reached supplies. The bridge: the same 1916–17 volume carries the livery trade in two forms that do not merge — in the town entry, Garrett P. D., livery; in the classified Livery list, Bailey W. M. — a conflict the build banks whole (C108) and prints unmerged here. What the bridge test can honestly state is the coexistence: in the edition of 1916–17 a Lakeville livery — under one of two names — and a Lakeville garage stood in print together, the old trade and the new on facing lines of one book; no carrier reached shows a livery firm becoming the garage, a succession deed, or either firm's course past that bench. The settlers stand named: the Lakeville Standard run, and the 1920s–1940s Polk gazetteers, which would show the garage's course and the livery's disappearance — and until they are read, the bridge prints as coexistence, not conversion.