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The world-record registers, read for this seat: no attempt, in costume or otherwise

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This is a register test, and it was run as one: both world-record registers were read for the Osceola seat, and neither holds an Osceola attempt. Guinness World Records was searched for an Osceola, Indiana attempt or title; the returns are Indiana records seated elsewhere in the state and national stories with no Osceola connection — no attempt at a named Osceola venue, in costume or in ordinary dress, stands in the register as searched. RecordSetter, the open register where a small town's attempt would most plausibly live, was searched on the same terms; no Osceola-seated record or attempt was returned. The one local candidate the build already carries was tested against the class and fails it on its own terms: the Osceola festival's frog-jumping contest, billed by the visitor bureau as perhaps the largest in the Midwest, is a contest claim — a billing, not a record attempt, with no register entry, no adjudication, and no costume element in its record. The class therefore closes tested negative at register strength: if a costumed record attempt is ever made at a named venue in this town, it will be the first, and this article is its empty shelf, dated.

Sources: Guinness World Records register, searched for the Osceola, Indiana seat (no Osceola attempt or title returned; Indiana returns seated elsewhere); RecordSetter register, searched on the same terms (no Osceola-seated entry returned); banked Arts festival record (frog-jumping contest billed as perhaps the largest in the Midwest), per the audit's verbatim account. Rights basis: register facts; no image pulled.

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Source: The world-record registers, read for this seat: no attempt, in costume or otherwise, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/stories-told/world-record-registers-read-for-this-seat-no-attempt/