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Town Code §11.01; directory and trade carriers as searched
The code's other two chief businesses of 1927 have no names in any record. The grocery and meat market that stood beside the lumber yard, and the garages — plural, in the code's own word — that made the automobile the corridor's third founding trade, are carried by no directory entry, trade item or advertisement found in the spans searched: the gazetteers and directory indexes named in the gaps file, the lumber trade press that named the yard, and the 1955 school-paper bench that named the next generation. The garages matter beyond their anonymity: a town four years into paved-highway traffic already kept more than one house for the motorist's machine in 1927, a generation before its first motel. Both gaps stand in the business-gaps file with their settlers — the classified headings of the gazetteer itself, the extraction of the 1921 South Bend directory's Roseland coverage if any exists, and the press archive — rather than filled with the plausible. The earliest named garage the record does give the town is Karl Weis's, in 1955, and it arrives with an ambiguity of its own, printed in the next bench.