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ITEM 6 · MIXED — A SINGLE-POINT STRENGTH, PRINTED AS ONE
The checklist wants the trade counted again at the peace — the first postwar canvass, its sellers named, against the 1916 three — and the run reports the item at exactly the strength the reached record gives: one documented point, and the canvass itself un-pulled. The point is Williams Supply Co., Studebaker sales, 408 Michigan Street, established 1951 (Businesses, on the Studebaker Drivers Club's dealer registry) — the town's documented postwar dealership, selling the county's own make from the town's main street in the years of Studebaker's last strength. Against 1916's three sellers it stands alone in the reached record, not because the postwar town had one dealer but because no postwar Polk canvass for Walkerton was pulled by this run: the directories of 1946–55 exist as a class and their Walkerton pages are named in the run note as the item's settler. The article closes MIXED, and its honesty is the point: the postwar reopening of the town's car trade is documented at one strong point (1951, a named house, a named make, a named street), the count is owed to a named instrument, and the leg prints the point as a point — the error refused is the one that would dress a registry line as a canvass.
Principal sources: Businesses (Williams Supply, est. 1951, 408 Michigan Street); the Polk directories 1946–55 named as the canvass settler.