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The Town Market and the Curb-Market Question

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AUDIT ROW #343 · THE CURB-MARKET TEST · THE MARKET LINE DUG ONCE, IN THE FARMS ADDENDUM

The market lineage of this ground, printed whole: a nineteenth-century town market function carried by its stores and its depot trade; no curb market of record; and no standing farmers' market today. The curb-market limb — the organized street market of the early automobile decades — was tested against the town's ordinance and press record as reached and returns no Walkerton curb market; the farmers'-market limb was dug once, at full strength,'s farms addendum (the market-line article: the directories searched, Briar Patch Farm's Plymouth vending, and Fish Lake Market's postal standing all printed there), and is cross-referenced rather than re-dug, duplication being a defect. The lineage as it stands is therefore short and complete: produce moved through stores, stands, and the rail trade for a century and a half, and the market form itself never took root here.

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Source: The Town Market and the Curb-Market Question, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/food/town-market-and-curb-market/