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The Four Mishawakas: The Same Name in Four Record Systems

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The source-trap warning, from this build's own catches — the standing hazard for the next checker

What it is: the South Bend apparatus closes with its four South Bends; Mishawaka's are these. The name is a place in Colorado: the most famous "Mishawaka" in the world is an amphitheatre in Poudre Canyon, named in 1916 by Walter S. Thompson for his Indiana hometown — the comedy record's "first comedian to headline The Mishawaka" (2025) is that room, and the song and venue searches drown in it and in New Zealand's Mihiwaka. The name is a street in the other city: Mishawaka Avenue is a South Bend street — a photographer's studio stands on it, and a Navy casualty summary's eleventh "Mishawaka" hit is a dead sailor's address at 3023 Mishawaka Avenue, which makes him South Bend's, as the roll's McLouth, Meier and Murphy are South Bend's — while the boundary cuts the other way just as hard: the South Bend Distillery is seated in Mishawaka on Currant Road, and the county humane society is seated in Mishawaka on Grape Road, both printed by seat, not by name. The name is a mailing story: the Microsoft site of the trade accounts ("939 acres in Mishawaka") is Granger ground on the county's own notice (929 acres), Mishawaka's documented share being the water and sewer agreement; the Huggart Settlement a landmarks page implies for this record is Union Township's; Morris Park Country Club is South Bend's. The name is a costume other records wear: Bethel is two universities (the Clarion and an improv troupe are Minnesota's; the Beacon and the HelmThe Missing Half, their fiction disclosed in the podcast's own close and absent from every official list the Unsolved leg read whole. The Princess herself belongs here: the town's name-figure is an 1875 fiction (Littlejohn), her supposed grave a 1932 boulder, her people's name filed under two tribes in the record — the build prints the fiction as fiction and the record as the record, in that order.

Its standing, from this build's experience: every one of these was met in the working, not collected for this entry: each cost a search, a disambiguation, or a correction, and each is documented in its owning leg. The warning generalizes: in a twin-city valley, seat governs over name, always — the rule that kept a distillery, a humane society, a data center and a dozen dead men in their right files.

Where it fails: the trap list is necessarily the list of traps caught. The next checker's first discipline is to assume the list is incomplete.

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Source: The Four Mishawakas: The Same Name in Four Record Systems, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/mishawaka/sources/four-mishawakas-the-same-name-in-four-record-systems/