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One ambiguous line — the "Carr O L" livery item

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Polk Gazetteer 1916–17, pt. 3, classified heading "Livery, Sale, Etc.," pp. 1571–1572, as OCR-read

A single classified-list line may name a Roseland liveryman, and it cannot be verified from the copy read. In the gazetteer's classified part, under livery, the machine-read text interleaves two columns: a run of town names — "…Rosedale / Roseland / Rossville / Rushville…" — stands near the name "Carr O L," which may pair a Carr, O. L. with Roseland under the heading. Column alignment cannot be verified from the OCR, and the item is therefore not used as proof of anything: not of a livery stable, not of a name. It prints because the livery trade is the auto trade's predecessor — a liveryman of 1916 is where a garage of 1927 comes from — and because an unresolved item printed is worth more than a plausible one promoted. Its settler is a page-image read of the gazetteer's classified pages, the same read that closes the business-gaps file's fragment settler.

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Source: One ambiguous line — the "Carr O L" livery item, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/roseland/dealerships/one-ambiguous-line-the-carr-o-l-livery-item/