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Pattern: South Bend (Bowsher feed-mill works; the drill-press works) · Test: Osceola
The pattern is the named mid-size manufacture — a feed-mill works, a drill-press works — too small for the flagship telling, too big for the trades shelf. Tested against Osceola (mechanisms 1 and 2): the village's manufactures in the record reached are the mills of art-72-2, the Crystal Springs Creamery (George E. Moon its president, treasurer, and salesman by 1907, on Howard's record), and the grain trade (William C. Smith, grain dealer and railroad agent, 1884–85 census) — no feed-mill works, machine works, or drill-press works appears in either gazetteer census, in Howard, or in Chapman under any heading. The elevator question — whether a grain elevator ever stood with Smith's dealership — is already a named gap in the first leg's closing roll and is not silently closed here. Tested negative for a mid-size manufacture beyond the mills and creamery, at gazetteer-and-county-history strength.
Named gap: the grain elevator (carried from Businesses's closing gaps roll) — settler: railroad valuation and Sanborn-class records for the Osceola siding.
Sources: Businesses (banked censuses, creamery article, closing gaps roll); Howard (1907) as banked.