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ITEM 4 · MIXED — NO BILL FOR THIS GROUND; THE VALLEY'S HOUSES DUG AND DATED AS BOUNDARY
No vaudeville bill for a house in Osceola exists to print, because no house existed: the Arts section's room tests return no theater, hall-stage or opera house in the town at any date, and the vaudeville era found the village at its smallest (177 people in 1900). What played for this ground played where the interurban — the town's own documented line, cars running from 1898/1900 — could carry an Osceola audience in under half an hour, and those bills print here as boundary, from the houses' own record. In South Bend, the Palace opened in 1921 as a vaudeville house — the valley's big-time room, later the Morris Performing Arts Center — and the Orpheum stood among the Michigan Street houses until about 1931, the two names of the checklist's pattern both standing, in this valley, in the same city. The bills those houses played — the ten-minute acts, the comic singles and doubles, the touring companies — are South Bend's entertainment record whole, in South Bend's build.
Mishawaka's houses stand between, geographically and in that city's build, and are pointed to, not re-told. The township's own vaudeville-era performance record is the layer row #588 already prints: school and church entertainments, the lyceum's descendants, and — from 1984's ancestor events backward — nothing with a bill, a house or a price attached in any record reached. The Enterprise film's amusement listings are the settler for any single-night stand — a troupe playing a township hall on a one-night stop would be advertised there and nowhere else.
GAP-OS88-1 applies: the Mishawaka Enterprise film (Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library), read for its amusement listings and township correspondence, is the settler for the one-night-stand residue; Kiracofe (1988) behind it. The vaudeville article closes at its documented size: the era's comedy reached this town by interurban, and the town kept the timetable, not the bills.
Sources: Arts section of this build (the room and picture-house tests — no house in the town). Transportation leg (the interurban line and its timetables). The South Bend theater record (the Palace, opened 1921 as a vaudeville house; the Orpheum, closed c. 1931) — boundary, read November 2026. Register row #589.