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item 8 — half carried in the banked set, half tested here
Half of this item already stands, and stands whole: the newspapers leg carries the national name's newspaper years at this town's exact size — Schuyler Colfax writing for local papers from sixteen (1839), the cipher letter of 9 April 1840, and the Greeley arrangement — the boy clerkship of 1836 that is this town's true share of his career, the career itself assigned to South Bend by the fame sweep's boundary discipline. The memoir half is tested here and returns empty: a town governed by a council and a clerk-treasurer has no mayor to memoir, and no published memoir by any town or township official of this ground stands in the county histories or the Tribune record reached for this test. The officeholders the record does hold — K. C. Taylor's fourteen years as Town Treasurer, the longest nineteenth-century holding — left minutes and accounts, not memoirs. The item closes at that combined size: the newspaper years whole in their own leg, the official's memoir a printed absence.
Sources:
- This build's Newspapers & Media ('Correspondents': the Colfax newspaper years whole) and Notable People (the 1836 clerkship at boundary strength; Taylor's fourteen years).
- County histories and the Tribune record as reached for this test, November 2026 — no official's memoir returned.