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1909 – 1916–17, the whole of the record reached
This farm town's documented machinery trade ran through store departments, not standalone agencies. In 1909 a farm implement warehouse stood at the rear of the east Main Street block; its operator is unnamed in the nomination. In Polk's 1916–17 census the trade prints as two combination houses: Baughman Bros (Henry and Benjamin), grocers and farm implements, and Jerry Peters, hardware and farm implements. No Deere, Massey, International, or other named machinery franchise or agent for North Liberty was found in the gazetteers searched — a negative at gazetteer strength. The implement dealers print as their own article because that — two dealer lines in one census and one unnamed warehouse — is the whole of the record reached, and it is the trade that actually served Liberty Township's farms; by 1967 the town's own high-school yearbook carried its implement advertising from Walkerton and Lakeville houses, a course printed in the businesses leg.