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item 9 — rectifiers, wholesale houses, and stills distinguished
The negative the floor requires, with its span and its classes separated: across the record classes reached for this section — the county histories, the gazetteer and directory runs from the 1850s forward, the excise and federal permit record as reached, and the modern state permit lists — no distillery, rectifier, or wholesale liquor house stands for New Carlisle or Olive Township at any date in the span, 1850s to November 2026. The third class is distinguished honestly: illicit stills. The banked crime record expressly leaves "the wartime and Prohibition stills of local legend" unprinted, as legend; this section converts the lead into the finding the record supports — no still seizure, raid, or prosecution for this ground stands in the appellate or newspaper record reached, and legend without a seizure record prints as legend declined, now with the search stated rather than the lead merely passed over. A negative without its span fails the leg; this one carries its span, its classes, and its record classes on its face.
Sources:
- The county histories, gazetteer and directory runs, and the excise / permit record as reached for this section, November 2026 — the spanned negative as printed.
- This build's Crime (nc-crime-dry: the stills of legend expressly left unprinted there; the seizure-record search stated here).