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The claims below were tested inside the files that own their subjects. The tests stand there at full size; this index prints the verdict and the address, one line each, so that the city's whole stock of claims can be read in one place.
Claims that failed. That the Humvee was designed in Mishawaka — it was designed in 1979–83 with the company's headquarters in Detroit and its engineering in Livonia; Mishawaka's documented share is the manufacture of every production Humvee (Inventors). That Belli's plastic football head was the first successful one — the successful patent is Erwin's of 1955; Belli's earned claim stands on his own later patent (Inventors). That Jim Gaffigan was born in Mishawaka — a travel-content site states it flatly; the record puts his birth in Elgin, Illinois, and his raising in Chesterton, and the biggest stand-up Indiana produced is Chesterton's claim, not this city's (People; Comedy). That Rudy was filmed on Mishawaka ground — it fails on the American Film Institute's record; no documented commercial feature or series shoot on Mishawaka ground stands in the record reached (Producers). John Philip Sousa played Mishawaka — no stand here stands in the record; his documented Indiana stands of the era are Michigan City's (Music). De Kever's sentence placing an Amplex car from Mishawaka in a 1909 race — no race, driver, or date supports it in the racing record (Racing). That the Sisters of St. Francis ran Mishawaka's hospital — they did not; the city's hospital was the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ's, opened 19 April 1910 (Hospitals). That Morris Park Country Club is Mishawaka's — it is South Bend's (Private Clubs). The two deaths the haunted compilations assign to the Hacienda — both fail against the record; the city's haunted file is a one-address file (Haunted Places). That Mishawaka produced a home-grown serial killer or a documented bank-robbery tradition — both tests negative on the court and press record (Crime). And the frame finding of the broadcast record: no radio or television station is licensed to Mishawaka — the stations produce from Mishawaka buildings under other cities' licenses (Producers).
Claims that stand. That the Mishawaka works was "the largest manufacturer of rubber boots and overshoes in the country" — a federal court's findings of fact, Bankers Trust Co. v. Higgins, 65 F. Supp. 836 (S.D.N.Y. 1946), the strongest carrier any claim in this section has (Ball Band). That the St. Joseph furnace of 1834 was the first successful iron furnace in Indiana (Spine, on Balsley's study and the state marker). Margaret Prickett's firsts — the first woman to run for mayor of Mishawaka, recruited when no one else would run, and the city's first woman mayor, corroborated fresh against the South Bend News-Times in 2026 (Women's History; the first woman on the council does not settle there, and prints unresolved). Bethel University's forty-eight national titles — recomputed from the program's own record, exact (Sports). The puppet troupe Cotton Mouf's Mishawaka seat, with its audience figures dated as displayed (Comedy; Influencers). Medora Powell, class of 1887, the first African-American graduate of a northern-Indiana high school (Schools). The 1909 pageant as the largest documented single day in the city's history (Events).
Claims carried qualified. The Princess Mishawaka — the city's founding fiction, Littlejohn's of 1875, tested whole as a tale in the Story of Mishawaka section and the folklore file and never a fact anywhere in this history. The name itself, in three readings the record does not reconcile (Spine; Tribes). "The peppermint capital of the Indiana industry" — an Indianapolis News sentence of 13 October 1906, sustained at the state size it claims (Farms & Crops). The Woodward growers, the largest mint growers in Indiana and second in the nation, at the record's strength (Exports). Twin Branch as the oldest hydro plant in the AEP fleet, still generating since 1903 (Industrial Revolution). The Gurley Leep founding — settled at 1977 against the 1973 telling (Dealerships). This section's own new tests belong to the same ledger: the fastest-growing city stands with its word "city" doing the work; the iron decade stands as a judgment the comparison class supports; the bus order stands at its moment; the Belgian ranking, the windmill crown, and the wagon billing do not stand. That is the whole stock, and the proportions are the finding: Mishawaka's documented record was always large enough that its true claims outnumber its borrowed ones.