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ROW 639 · LEG 95 ITEM 4 · TESTED NOVEMBER 2026
The pattern course — a bowling alley that became a rink, an ice house with a family course of its own — was tested against the same directories that fixed the town's other trades. Sports already runs half the groundwork: its boundary-and-negatives article tests bowling and finds no bowling house seated inside the town, which kills the conversion pattern at its first step — there was no alley here to become a rink. For skating itself, no roller-skating rink, ice rink, or skating house seated in Osceola is named in the city and county directories or the Tribune record as reached in this section, at any date; the rink-going of Osceola families was done across the line, in Mishawaka and South Bend houses owned by those builds, at boundary. Competitive skating, had any town record existed, would stay in Sports under the row's own rule; none does, so nothing transfers.
Closure: TESTED NEGATIVE — no skating house of either kind ever seated in this town in the record reached; the bowling-to-rink conversion premise fails on Sports's banked bowling negative.