Sources for Mishawaka History

Open: The Fire Issue of the Enterprise

The cause of the Great Fire of 5 September 1872

The next day's Indianapolis dispatch, read in Hoosier State Chronicles, assigns no cause and records only that some early at the fire "plainly smelled burning kerosene" — printed as witness detail, not promoted. The settling source is the paper's own next issue: the Enterprise of 7 September 1872, the issue at which its film run resumes, its office having burned in the fire it would report. The question stands open at dispatch strength until that issue is read.

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Open: Where Brunner's Manuscript Is

The custody of Mishawaka, Its Rise and Progress

The 137-essay manuscript under the commissioned history (Part one) has no stated present home in any source reached. Settling source: the public library's local-history holdings statement. Until it answers, the deepest unpublished layer of the town's record is citable only at one remove.

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Open: Who Presided at Kamm & Schellinger, 1930–1951

The brewery's last two decades have no president in the record reached

The Wineries leg carried the brewery whole — the family settlement beneath the partnership, the incorporation conflict, output from 30,000 barrels to a 150,000 rating, the April 1918 closing under Indiana's own law, the 1951 governing date against the Tribune's 1952 — and its presidency between 1930 and the end is in no source reached. Settling sources: the directory succession at the public library and the company's own later record. The gap is printed in the fragment, not bridged.

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Open: Who Designed the Red Ball

The works' famous mark is anonymous in every record reached

The Arts section's named gap: the Red Ball's designer stands anonymous in the trademark record (registrations 29,476 of 1897 and 36,471 of 1901), the company histories and the press alike. Settling sources: the trademark file wrappers and the exhibits of the 1955 CCPA case — the paper that would carry a name if any does.

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Open: The First Woman on the Common Council

The Women's History leg's central unsettled question

The first woman to hold the town's other first offices stands documented — Prickett, the first woman officeholder of record, carried with her caution; Kovach's 1979 margin of 509 votes on the record — but the first woman on the Common Council does not settle in any source reached. Settling source: the council records at Notre Dame, the same twenty reels that head this ledger's archive. The fragment prints the question open rather than crown a candidate.

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Open: The 1930 Penn Township Farm Row

The missing page, restated as a question

Farms, acreage, land use and values for Penn Township in 1930 exist in exactly one printed place — p. 179 of the agriculture volume — and that page is absent from the Census Bureau's own scan and its mirror (Part four). Settling source: an independent copy of the bound volume, the HathiTrust page images being the named route. No figure stands in the Farms files from any compilation.

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Open: The 1926 Patent Index

One year of the works' inventive record, bracketed and uncounted

Index of Patents Issued volume was not found on archive.org under any identifier tried. The year's grants — George W. Blair's campaign among them, in its first seasons — stand bracketed. Settling source: the volume itself, or the 1926 Official Gazette weekly lists.

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Open: The Town's First World War Served Total

The dead are rolled; the served are not yet counted

The Wars file carries the town's First World War dead from the Gold Star record; the count of all who served waits on the state's own cards. Settling source: the Indiana Archives' Statement of Service Cards — some 135,800 statewide — pulled for the county, the Veterans leg's named, unmade pull.

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Open: Where the School Museum's Collections Went

The Hannah Lindahl Children's Museum's records, photographs and Red Ball run

School records 1887–1914, a class-of-1920 photographs-and-addresses record kept through 1960, a Red Ball run 1947–1965, the 1911 map, the 1942 county atlas — held by a museum now listed permanently closed, its site dead, the collections' present home stated nowhere (Part three). Settling addresses: the School City of Mishawaka; the public library's Heritage Room. The question is printed so the loss is on the record.

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