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The theatre as a music plant, behind a printed negative

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NAMED GAP · settler named · Run B #233

The palace half of this item is already answered, and the answer is that there was no palace: the audit's form is the Tivoli's music plant — the great house's organ, pianos and house orchestra inventoried as a plant. For this ground the base build's picture-show test, printed whole in Arts, proves at Cinema Treasures strength that no motion-picture house was ever seated in Osceola, Indiana — every theatre the name returns belongs to the namesake Osceolas of Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri — so there is no house organ, no pit orchestra, and no theatre piano inventory to draw, and none is drawn. What the item still genuinely asks is the plant of the rooms the town did have: the organs and pianos of its churches and its town hall, and the music made in them, inventoried as a plant. That inventory does not exist in any record reached: the Religion section carries the congregations without their instruments (item 2 of this section), no town-hall instrument record stands in the government record as built, and no hall of the township carries a published instrument list in the sources reached. The settler is the same pair that settles this section's whole pre-1984 interior: the item closes NAMED GAP, settler: J. Harold Kiracofe, History of Osceola (1988), with the congregations' and the town hall's own records behind it, per the audit's settling sources.

Settler named: Kiracofe, History of Osceola (1988); the congregations' and town hall's records — per the audit.

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Source: The theatre as a music plant, behind a printed negative, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/music-history/theatre-as-a-music-plant-a-named-gap-behind/