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ROW 628 · LEG 93 ITEM 3 · TESTED NOVEMBER 2026
Half of this row was already done before the audit asked for it. The first directory censuses of sellers on this ground stand whole in Businesses and are pointed to, not repeated: eleven listings in the 1884–85 census, and five listings in 1916–17 — the later census pointedly carrying no garage, dealer, or repair shop at all, which is itself the first-census answer for the automobile trade: at the first directory moment when a motor seller could have appeared, none did. The un-done half is the show: the first time the trade showed itself together, in the association-show pattern. Tested in this section against the auto-trade press record and association record as reached, no automobile show, dealer show, or trade exhibition seated in Osceola is documented at any date. The shows of the county's trade belonged to the county seat's exhibition life at boundary, and a town whose 1916–17 census holds no motor seller had no local trade to stage one.