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the published anecdotes at the strength reached; Watt & Wade is a pull-list book, not read
The ingenuity fact that carries a document is a finance fact: when New Carlisle built its waterworks, the $7,000 bond issue was guaranteed personally by G. H. Service — the town's banker-merchant-grain dealer (Chapman's sketch: in 1879 he "bought and shipped a million bushels of wheat" beside his store and bank) putting his own name behind a municipal utility a town of this size had no business carrying alone. That is the class at document strength: one man's credit standing in for a tax base. The rest of the class — the settler improvisations, the home-built machines and makeshift repairs a small town's memory loves — does not print here, because the book that collects this town's anecdotes, Watt & Wade, is a pull-list volume the diggers could not read, and the county histories' published anecdotes at the strength reached carry no second item of this class with its document attached. The remainder of the row closes as a named-gap limb inside this article: settler, Watt & Wade read whole, and the town press runs (the Gazette and Journal lines in Hoosier State Chronicles), against which any further ingenuity item must prove its document before it prints.
Sources:
- The banked water-works record of this build (the $7,000 bond issue and G. H. Service's personal guarantee).
- Chapman (1880), the George H. Service sketch, pp. 783–784 (banker, merchant and grain-dealer; the million bushels of 1879). Read first-hand in this build.
- Watt & Wade — named as settler only; NOT read, and no fact in this article rests on it.