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Directories and the present
The dealer record is the tractor's real presence in this town, and it is thinner in print than it was in life. Implement houses and tractor agencies served the township from North Liberty and from the towns around it; the dated directory succession of those agencies was not pulled whole and stands as a named gap, its settlers the Polk gazetteers and the town press's advertising columns read as a run, and the surviving-dealer row to the present belongs with that pull. The culture tests run as follows: the antique steam-and-gas association life of this county is seated at its fairgrounds and club grounds in the county's larger record, not in North Liberty — boundary negative. Tractor pulls at the county fair are the county fair's, in South Bend — boundary. A farm show seated here was not found — negative. What the town itself holds is the use, not the show: a township of working farms whose machinery is its livelihood, recorded in the farms leg of this build, to which this section points for the land the tractors work.