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The Home Manufacturing Company was missed by every pass and every gazetteer because it exists in exactly one carrier — the 1875 atlas directory's officer slate (its six officers stand in the roster). Two of those officers are independently placed in other trades (Irvin in meat, Whitinger in groceries), which fixes the company as a real North Liberty corporation of local men, not a paper listing; its product, founding, course, and fate are stated by no carrier reached. Queued; settlers: Chapman's Liberty biographies at page-image strength, the Indiana corporation filings, and the atlas's own views and biographies at page image (which also settle the garbled Kellogg year and the Hagon/Ragon and Stakestraw/Rakestraw spellings). The silo manufacturers stand unfinished as three attestations, expressly not a chain: the Fair Silo Co. (Polk 1916–17, C. L. Fair manager); the Hein Cement Products Co., silo manufacturers in the same edition, a firm with no individual named — which is why it cannot enter the roster and stands here; and the Silo Manufacturing Company of the 1967 yearbook, advertised twice at the same telephone number with no person named. Whether the 1967 company descends from Fair or from Hein is stated by no carrier. Queued in three parts; settlers: the News advertising record 1917–1967, the corporation filings for all three names, and the 1929 Sanborn sheet read directly — a silo plant's footprint is unmistakable.
The Gem Theatre stands unfinished as a firm: one Polk line ("Gem Theatre, F M Lee mngr," 1916–17) attests a named picture house with a named manager, and the nomination attests a second movie tenancy — the south storefront of 140 North Main, marquee up by 1929, short-lived, gone from the 1940 directory. No carrier gives the Gem an address, an owner (Lee is manager), an opening, or a closing, and none states whether the two are the same room. Queued; settlers: the 1917 and 1929 Sanborn sheets at lot level and the News of 1916–1929 — a picture house advertises, or it does not exist commercially. The three hotels of 1916–17 stand beyond their listings: the Grant Hotel (Emil Greening, proprietor) has its building course proven — c.1875 to c.1920 at Center & Main — but the Grant name's origin, Greening's tenure bounds, and the exact closing year inside "c.1920" are unproven, and the nomination's holding that the Empire Hotel "likely is the same building" prints as its likelihood, under the register's Rupert conflict, not as a merger. Foster's hotel and restaurant (James E. Foster) and the Wabash Hotel (Fred Mann) have nothing beyond their Polk lines in any carrier — the thinnest entries in this section. Settlers for all four: the Sanborn sheets read directly, the News of 1912–1929, and Saltzgaber if a copy is ever located.