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The negative tests, printed as tests: Prince Hall, the klavern, and the later orders

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item 11 — Moose and Eagles at pointer size; the two required searches

Three tests the floor requires printed, whatever they return: Prince Hall — no Prince Hall lodge is found for this ground in the record reached; the township's Black population across the whole period was small enough that the population leg counts it in tens, and no lodge of any obedience seated a Black membership here in the records reached. The search is printed as a search, at that strength, with the Grand Lodge Prince Hall records named as its settler. The klavern — no klavern, charter, cross, or Klan organisation is attributed to New Carlisle or Olive Township in the record reached for this section; the Klan's county strength of the 1920s stood in South Bend, and its course belongs to that build — for this ground the test prints negative at the strength of the records reached, settler the Tribune's Klan-era files read whole. The later orders — no Moose lodge and no Eagles aerie is seated in New Carlisle in the directory or civic record reached; both orders' local presence runs through the county seat and Rolling Prairie–side lodges, pointed to at pointer size and not carried. Each negative stands dated to this run's searches, November 2026.

Sources:

  1. The directory, civic, and grand-body records as reached for this section, November 2026 — the three tests and their results as printed.
  2. This build's Population (the township's counted composition) and this history (the civic register, which contains no line for any of the bodies tested).

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Source: The negative tests, printed as tests: Prince Hall, the klavern, and the later orders, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/new-carlisle/secret-societies/negative-tests-printed-as-tests-prince-hall-the-klavern/