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The Mishawaka Enterprise, founded 1853, 1854 or 1855 — the conflict printed whole; film at the public library, 1858–2019, with the holes printed
What it is: the town's paper of record for most of its life, and this build's largest single settling source. Its founding is a three-way conflict the Newspapers leg prints whole and does not average: 1853, carried by Chapman, Howard and De Kever; 1855, carried by the Register's contemporary notices as the Tetlow dissertation quotes them and by the Daily Astorian's retrospective of 1880; 1854, carried by Howard's own Jernegan biography and by the Ayer directories of 1920 and 1952 — with Ayer 1962 drifting to 1855, the drift itself printed. The film at the public library runs: 7 April 1858 to 28 October 1865; a single issue of 28 May 1870; then 7 September 1872 — the Great Fire issue, the paper's office itself destroyed in the fire of 5 September 1872 — forward to 26 December 2019, the film's last reel. Inside the Enterprise file stand its own daily experiment, the Mishawaka Daily (4–30 June 1926), and an unexplained Fair Dealer masthead inside the 1937 reels — renaming, merger or absorbed rival, printed as unexplained.
Its standing, from this build's experience: the film is the door behind this build's open questions more than any other single source: the Pending Research Catalog carries 183 Mishawaka newspaper rows, and the great share of them settle, if they settle anywhere, on these reels — the fire's cause (the run resumes at exactly the issue that would carry it), the Hotel Mishawaka's July 1909 coverage, the first automobile, the mint district's last still.
Where it fails: it is film, in one room, undigitized. Hoosier State Chronicles digitizes no Mishawaka title (next entries but two); NewspaperArchive holds 127 Enterprise issues by the aggregator's own count; the Spencer Library at the University of Kansas holds a single issue (19 September 1884, a "Friday evening edition"). What the build could not reach on film, it prints as a gap with this film named — it does not fill the silence from summaries.
Sources:
- Fair Dealer masthead, and the aggregator counts.
- The Pending Research Catalog, Mishawaka newspaper rows — the film's dependents across more than thirty fragments.