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1916–1926
The printer-as-firm debt is sharpened, not paid. Polk's 1916–17 town entry lists the Lakeville Standard (weekly) with no publisher named. The Walkerton Independent of 16 September 1926, in its masthead (Hoosier State Chronicles), lists a Walkerton-based publishing company as publisher of the Lakeville Standard among "the St. Joseph County weeklies" — wording at OCR strength; the company officers' names in the masthead are too garbled to print and are not printed; the subscription stands $1.60 a year as the page carries it. Hubbard's 1880 and Rowell's newspaper directories, at snippet strength, name no Lakeville paper — the village had no paper in 1880, and the Standard's first listing in editions read is Polk 1916–17. Howard's Press chapter names no Lakeville paper (banked). No job printer is named for Lakeville in any directory edition or classified heading reached. The finding: the Standard was a living paper in 1926, a decade past its directory listing, under a group publisher — but no Lakeville printer or proprietor is named by any carrier reached. The paper stood in the businesses leg as a listing without a firm behind it; the gap pass establishes the paper's continued life and its group-publisher frame — the newspapers fragment carries the paper's full course — and names the residue exactly: the printer's name lives in the Standard's own masthead or colophon, which no carrier reached reproduces. Settler: the Standard's own masthead/colophon; the Standard run.