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Pattern: South Bend · Test: Osceola village ground
The pattern is South Bend's: beside Oliver stood the South Bend Chilled Plow Company and the city's other implement works — second firms in a flagship industry, the class a one-flagship telling misses. Tested against Osceola (mechanism 1: firms carried as colour in the county histories): the village's industry was milling, and its succession is already whole in the first leg — the unnamed first sawmill of 1831 or '32, Zelotes Bancroft's second mill, the brothers' saw-and-grist mill of 1856, Frederick Lang's sawmill of 1864, the directory's last mill in 1884 — with no second works beside any of them in Chapman, Goodspeed (1893), Howard (1907), or either gazetteer census.Tested negative: no second implement works, plow works, or rival mill firm stands on Osceola ground in any source reached. The settler, if the negative is to be raised to manuscript strength, is named in item 9.
Sources: Businesses (banked mill succession and gazetteer censuses); DELTA DF-9.