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Three firms stand with their middles proven and their joints unproven. The Schlosser creamery: the Plymouth Weekly Republican of 30 November 1911 counts the North Liberty plant (bought 1895) among those "consolidated with the Plymouth plant later," while Polk 1916–17 still lists it operating here under manager J. G. Holderman — both printed in the farms file, the consolidation's date and effect unresolved, and no carrier reached carries the plant past 1916–17. (The firm's gathered-cream system and its thirteen-million-pound scale are the Plymouth firm's, printed as the firm's, not the town plant's.) Settlers: the company's records if extant, the News record of 1911 into the 1920s, and the state dairy reports. Palmer Funeral Home: the North Liberty house is attested by 1967 and Kent R. Palmer's mortuary graduation dates to 1958, but when the chapel opened, and whether Palmer succeeded an earlier North Liberty undertaker's practice, is stated by no carrier — the candidate predecessor line (Bettcher, Burkhart, Kring, Kilmer) stands in the trades article below with no carrier connecting Kilmer (1916–17) to Palmer across fifty years, and the 1940 directory transcription names no undertaker at all, itself a directory-strength datum. Settlers: the firm's own history page if published, the News and Independent-News record, and the county library's local-history files. W. R. Hinkle's Ford point: the nomination's two passages place the c.1920 Ford sales-and-service building at 101 West Center (Service Garage passage, on the Hotel Grant site) and a Ford sales and garage replacing the c.1905 livery at 103 West Center (Modern Speed Wash passage) — adjacent lots, both printed, not merged; no carrier gives Hinkle's full name, the franchise's exact opening year, or a second franchise for the town (the second-franchise test is a negative at the carriers searched), and whether Barnes's 1916 garage also sold cars is not stated. Settlers: the 1917 and 1929 Sanborns at lot level and the 1920s Polk gazetteers — the 1916–17 volume being the latest gazetteer read first-hand in any pass.