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item 1 — the census sentence the leg opens from
The leg opens from a record, and the record's first fact is a threshold: no census or census-of-manufactures sentence for the clothing trades of New Carlisle exists at any date, because the town stood below the size at which the federal manufactures schedules published place-level clothing counts. The official record names the trade only inside the county's frame, and the county's garment industry — the shirt and work-clothing factories of South Bend and Mishawaka — belongs to those cities' builds. What this town's own official-adjacent record gives instead is Chapman's canvass of 1880 and the directory roll of 1916–17, and the leg works from those, counted, in the articles below. The absence of a federal count is printed as the item's finding, not as an apology: for a village of 530 to 650 people across the census years in question, the count was never going to be published, and pretending to a county figure would borrow the county seat's industry.
Sources:
- The Census of Manufactures publication practice for places of this size, tested against this town at every census date — no place-level clothing count published.
- Chapman (1880), Olive Township chapter and sketches; Polk's gazetteer roll for New Carlisle, 1916–17, transcribed whole in this build's Businesses.