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The second rank swept from named sources — and the sweep that cannot be run open-web

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Settler named · Osceola

The row directs a sweep of the second rank — the small firms under the directories' classified headings — from two named instruments: the Polk classified sections on State Library microfilm and Ancestry's directory collection. The first leg's sources article already admits the position honestly: the classified sections were "not yet run decade by decade." This pass confirms the admission and prices it. The Ancestry collection is sign-up-walled; under this run's rules a sign-up-walled source is a named gap with that settler, not a purchase. The microfilm run is a reading-room task no open-web pass can perform. The second rank below that strength — one-man firms that bought a classified line in a single decade's directory and no more — remains unswept, and every negative in this section is capped by that fact where it applies.

Named gap: the classified-section second rank, decade by decade — settler: Polk classified sections, Indiana State Library microfilm, and the Ancestry directory collection (sign-up-walled; named, not bought).

Sources: Businesses sources article and closing gaps roll (banked admission); this section's items 2–8.

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Source: The second rank swept from named sources — and the sweep that cannot be run open-web, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/more-businesses/second-rank-swept-from-named-sources-and-the-sweep/