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The custom trades: names from the 1921 directory; the count itself a named gap

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1921 · South Bend and Mishawaka directories (boundary); Osceola count: zero, from the banked censuses

The row asks for the custom trades counted at a dated directory — milliners, dressmakers, and tailors at the 1921 pattern. The reached 1921 Polk directory material is a transcription of street and classified fragments, and it names the trades without yielding a certifiable classified count: South Bend's 1921 streets carry tailors and clothiers (Samuel Spiro; Livingston's; Adler Bros.; Kay-Bee; Newman's women's ready-to-wear; Fischer & Son) and the milliners Van Gorder; the Mishawaka classified fragments name the tailors Herzog W. C. and Huys Arthur. Those names are printed as reached; a count is not manufactured from fragments. Named gap: the dated count of milliners, dressmakers, and tailors at 1921 is uncoverable from the open fragments reached. Its settling source is the 1921 Polk South Bend–Mishawaka directory's classified business pages, read as page images (St. Joseph County Public Library / directory collections). For Osceola the count at every directory date reached is the banked one: zero — no milliner, dressmaker, or tailor stands in the 1884–85 or 1916–17 village censuses.

Sources: Polk 1921 South Bend directory fragments (LDS Genealogy transcription); the banked Businesses for the Osceola zero.

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Source: The custom trades: names from the 1921 directory; the count itself a named gap, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/fashion/custom-trades-names-from-the-1921-directory-the-count/