The war beats at home-front granularity — and the negative the record requires

1898–1945 · THE WARS FILE'S HOME-FRONT MATERIAL, GATHERED INTO THE SPINE

The town's wars were fought from its farms and from other cities' payrolls, and the Story of New Carlisle section now says both. The home-front record, gathered from the wars file at the strength it was dug: in the First World War the township's war was agricultural and personal — its young men enlisted at South Bend, its Terre Coupee farm families sent sons like Stanley Paszkiet, a farmer of the Polish settlement, who died of pneumonia in hospital at Verdun on 15 December 1918, five weeks after the Armistice, in the influenza winter; and James W. Swanson, born in the town, who went to war as an employee of the Studebaker Company of South Bend — the pattern of the ground in one enlistment: the town raised the man, the city's plant held his job. The influenza that killed at Verdun was the war's second front at home as everywhere, and the wars addendum's recount articles carry the rolls whole. The negative the checklist demands stated, the Story of New Carlisle section now states: no war plant stood in New Carlisle in either world war — no plant in town held a war contract in any source this section reached; the war plants of the ground's story are Bendix's and Studebaker's, on South Bend ground, where this town's people worked — and no first-of-its-kind war product attaches to the town. The town's one first-of-its-kind product is a peacetime one, a game: the Wiffle Ball championship form founded here in 2005, carried whole in the sports file. The camp the checklist asks after likewise prints negative at this size: no training camp stood on this ground in the record reached; the camps of the county's wars stood elsewhere, and the township's contribution to them was men, not acres.

Sources:

1. Wars & Military Service and War Heroes — Paszkiet and Swanson whole, from the 1921 Indiana Gold Star Honor Roll's county section; the 1898–1918 article's home-front material.
2. Sports, nc-wiffle — the town's first-of-its-kind product, the 2005 championship form.
3. The war-plant and camp negatives: the searches of this section across the banked set, November 2026.