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1940 directory, as transcribed in the district nomination
In 1940 a traveller could eat in North Liberty at the Chat En Chew Lunch Room, at Jay's Lunch Room, or at Gardner's Inn. The names come from the 1940 St. Joseph County telephone directory's North Liberty section, transcribed whole in the banks leg, where they stand among five grocery and meat businesses — Day Brothers, Ivo's, Mack's, the Royal Blue Store among them — that between them provisioned the township. The milling ground the discipline asks for as this section's foundation is the town's own: the North Liberty Mills, gristmill and sawmill on Potato Creek from 1837 into the late 1880s (businesses leg), ground the township's wheat a generation before the lunch rooms. The ethnic-trades and parish-table tests return negatives at this town's scale: no smokehouse, sausage house or parish dinner tradition documented for North Liberty was found in the record reached, and no locally published cookbook was found either — the cookbook negative printed, as the discipline requires, rather than passed over.