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ITEM 7 · MIXED — LONGEVITY PRINTED AT EACH HOUSE'S OWN STRENGTH
The leg's longevity article sorts the town's vehicle houses by the length of their documented courses, and the sort itself is the portrait: the longest courses here belong to the horse age, not the motor age. First by the record: the harness and wagon trade — the Rupel/Ruple line from 1878–82 forward and the Leroy name across both centuries' trades (A. S. Leroy's harness, 1882; Myron D. Leroy's livery and sale stable from 1891, burned and rebuilt 1897–98, selling 150 head in 1906 — Businesses whole, on Howard's biographical sketch) — a vehicle house in the true sense, outlasting every motor-age firm the town has had. In the motor age: Williams Supply's course opens in 1951 at registry strength and its end stands unreached in any source this run opened — the house's closing, sale, or succession is the item's named residue (settler: the directories' later editions and the Independent's business pages). The present row's senior house, Celebrity Motors at 909 Roosevelt Road, carries itself as dealing since 1987 — printed here, as everywhere in this build, at its own account's strength: a firm's claim about itself, banked as such. The article closes MIXED: the horse-age courses whole, the motor-age courses open at their documented ends, and no lifespan rounded up.
Principal sources: Businesses (the harness line; the Leroy courses; Williams Supply; Celebrity Motors at its own account); the later directories named for Williams's end.