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1875–2026
Two of the checklist's five named trades close as negatives at stated strength, their searches shown. For ice, the searches ran on Riddles Lake and Pleasant Lake ice harvests, South Bend ice-company supply lines, and a Lakeville ice house, and returned other lakes' ice trades only — the Lake Maxinkuckee trade at Culver, with retail outlets in South Bend, Mishawaka and Logansport, closed 1934, and Reeds Lake at Grand Rapids. No ice house, ice company, or ice harvest on Riddles Lake or Pleasant Lake is carried by any source reached: negative at web-search strength. The Maxinkuckee-to-South-Bend flow is the regional pattern and is expressly not Lakeville evidence. No ice line appears in the 1875 Atlas detached block, in Chapman's sketches, or in any Polk edition read; the classic Union Township lake-ice trade does not verify for Lakeville's lakes at the strengths searched. Settler class: the Standard run; South Bend ice-company records; Sanborn-class maps. For laundries: no laundry heading or name for Lakeville stands in any Polk town entry read, none in Chapman, none in the Atlas block — no Chinese laundry, the era's classic form, and no laundry of any form at the strengths searched.Settler class: the classified Laundries heading read whole; the Standard run; 1920s–40s gazetteers.