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The 1927 grocery and meat market — a firm without a name

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Town Code §11.01 against the carriers searched

The town code proves the firm existed and no carrier reached names it. How the miss happened can be said in part: the code's history section names trades, not firms — the same sentence that preserves the lumber company as a trade preserves the grocer as one. The gazetteer that might have named it printed no Roseland entry; the 1921 South Bend directory's coverage of the town is unproven; the first bench that does name corridor grocers is the school paper of 1955, twenty-eight years on, and neither of its food surnames can be carried back to 1927 on any evidence read. Settlers: the classified headings of the gazetteer's own third part, scanned for the town; the 1921 directory extraction; the South Bend press archive for the 1920s corridor. Until one of those reads lands, the town's second-oldest business prints as the code prints it — a grocery and meat market, keeper unknown.

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Source: The 1927 grocery and meat market — a firm without a name, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/roseland/more-businesses/1927-grocery-and-meat-market-a-firm-without-a/