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The verdict: tested negative, on five classes of evidence

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NO BRANCH, AGENCY, OR DEPARTMENT DESK — ANY ERA

The negative rests first on the Bureau's own record. Its release of 27 October 2014 (the La Porte branch fire) enumerates the corner's branches in its own contingency language — Michigan City, Valparaiso, South Bend at 623 S. St. Joseph Street, Walkerton at 302 Roosevelt Road (Tuesday/Thursday only), Knox — and North Liberty is not among them. Its branch notice of 16 February 2021, read whole, names the county's branches as Mishawaka, South Bend and Walkerton, all styled "St. Joseph-71," through the very consolidation process that was deciding which small branches lived; North Liberty appears in no round of it. The Bureau's current place records complete the class: Mishawaka (2544 Miracle Lane) Active, South Bend (1139 E. Ireland Road) Active with its kiosk Active — and no North Liberty record returned by any query run. Second, the directories: the town's Polk gazetteer entries of 1880–81, 1884–85 and 1916–17 — the last of them a complete census of the town's business universe in the automobile's first decade — name no licensing agency of any kind (a weak negative for a branch that did not yet exist as an institution, a strong one for the town's business record). Third, the press searches: no opening, move, or closing item for a North Liberty branch exists in the record reached; the only "North Liberty Branch" the searches return is the public library's — the St. Joseph County Public Library's North Liberty Branch — printed here precisely so the two are never confused. Fourth, the 2005 reform rounds (Walkerton's article carries them whole) named Walkerton and closed other small branches across the state; North Liberty is on no list, because it held nothing to close. Fifth, the town's own hand: the Town of North Liberty's official Links page (in.gov/towns/northliberty/links), read whole, carries no Bureau link, no kiosk, no agency, no state office of any kind. The Bureau's current branch-and-kiosk list page is script-driven and returned no readable rows's tools — reported as a tool failure, not worked around — and the current state below rests on the Bureau's readable records and place records with the mirrors labelled, the method Walkerton's pass established. A search sweep's "Liberty, Indiana" material (Union County) was rejected on sight as a different town.

Principal sources: Indiana BMV releases of 27 October 2014 and 16 February 2021 (the latter read whole; first-hand); BMV place records for Mishawaka and South Bend (first-hand); Polk gazetteers 1880–81, 1884–85, 1916–17 (transcriptions); Town of North Liberty Links page (read whole, first-hand).

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Source: The verdict: tested negative, on five classes of evidence, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/license-branch/verdict-tested-negative-on-five-classes-of-evidence/