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THE PREMIUM LIST READ WHOLE · DAILY STATE SENTINEL, APRIL 1, 1858
The township's name was tested against the state fair's own record, and the test is printed with its limits. The premium list for the seventh annual Indiana State Fair, published in the Daily State Sentinel of April 1, 1858 and read whole on Hoosier State Chronicles, names its award committees man by man and town by town — dozens of committeemen from across the state. This county's names in the installment read are its cities': Mr. Bement of Mishawaka sits on two committees, T. Graham of Mishawaka on the carriages and cabinet ware committee, and Mrs. William Bulla of South Bend on the domestic manufactures committee. The word "Osceola" does not appear in the installment — the same search that finds "Mishawaka" twice finds it not at all. The list's texture is worth one line for this township: among its premiums stands a class for mint oil — best five pounds, the entry "accompanied by a statement of the manner of cultivating the mint" — the state fair already honoring, in 1858, the crop this township's farms leg records its first growers disputing. No Penn Township name sits on that committee either; its members are of New Albany, Lawrenceburg, Plymouth, Peru and Mount Moriah.
The gap is named in the closing article. Beyond 1858, no exhibitor or committeeman of Osceola or Penn Township at the state fair, and no exhibit from this ground at the World's Fair of 1893, is named in any record reached; Howard's fairs chapter mentions Chicago's fair only as the spectacle after which local interest waned. Both negatives print at that strength.
Principal sources: Daily State Sentinel, April 1, 1858 (Hoosier State Chronicles, read whole, 1,053 lines of text; searches for "Osceola" and, as control, "Mishawaka"); Howard (1907), vol. 1, ch. VII §1.