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Proven at list strength 1875–1920; printed against the 1837–1919 floor
No registered distillery, rectifier, or wholesale liquor house at North Liberty appears in any carrier reached — and the span discipline prints as carefully as the negative. Polk's 1880–81 classified Distillers list names Indiana distillers at Aurora, Bowling Green, Brookville, Delaney's Creek, Georgetown, Hobbieville, and elsewhere — no North Liberty entry. The pre-Prohibition registered-distillery database, built from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue's bonded-warehouse summaries for 1898, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1914, and 1920, together with the 1896 Internal Revenue annual-report extract examined beside it, names Indiana distilling towns from Lawrenceburg and Terre Haute to Tell City, Wabash, Bluffton, and Fort Wayne — no North Liberty. The town and township directories read first-hand (the 1875 atlas; Polk 1880–81 and 1916–17) name no rectifier and no wholesale liquor house here. Stated plainly rather than smoothed: the negative is proven at directory and federal-list strength for 1875–1920, the years those carriers actually cover, and it is printed against this section's floor of 1837–1919 — no registered distillery appears for any year in 1837–1920, but the carriers are point samples (1875, 1880–81, the federal summaries of 1896–1920), not a continuous federal sweep, and the file does not claim one.