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1929
In 1929 North Liberty had a second bank — one sentence says so, and nothing else does. The banked banks leg prints the item whole: the National Register nomination for the Commercial Historic District (Garner, 2012) records that the town "also had a second bank operating south of the movie theater in 1929," and no other carrier reached names it, dates it or gives it officers. The same nomination narrates the town's first and third banks as one institution, "formerly known as the State Bank," and the FDIC record contradicts the narration — the Community State Bank holds a fresh charter, Certificate 15942, dated 1 May 1943, after a 1940 directory lists twenty-one Main Street businesses and no bank at all. Both tellings print whole in the banks leg, which does not choose between them; this section claims only the shape of the oddity: a bank solid enough to locate by the movie theater, in a federal nomination, that the federal banking record does not contain.