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items 5 and 6 — successions across dated snapshots, and the mid-century state
The houses stand as dated sightings, and the course between them is honestly broken: Theodore L. Borden kept dry-goods and grocery in New Carlisle for ten years from the age of twenty-four (Chapman's sketch, the 1840s–50s generation); K. C. Taylor opened his store in November 1864 with groceries, provisions, queensware, notions, and confectioneries — the notions counter being the era's dress-goods trade at village scale; the 1916–17 roll separates the trade into its modern forms, Davidson & Porter in dry goods and Charles G. Phillips in "clothing, furnishings and shoes," with Gudmunsen's millinery beside them. Then the banked directory record stops, and does not resume until the 2026 association roll — which names no clothier at all. The mid-century trade state the floor requires — the trades as they stood at one named mid-century date — cannot be printed from the record reached and is banked as a named gap: settler, the mid-century directories and the Town Crier advertising record at one named date. The succession therefore prints in two dated panels and a stated void between them, and the void is the town's standing thin place in every trade, not this section's alone.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880), sketches of Theodore L. Borden and K. C. Taylor (this build's Notable People).
- Polk's roll, 1916–17, and the 2026 association roll (this build's Businesses) — the two dated panels; the century between them named in-file as the record's thin place.