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ITEMS 6–7 · TESTED AGAINST THE MINUTES AND THE PRESS RECORD AS REACHED
Two of the checklist's fight classes presuppose a contested building — the beloved structure fought over, the city hall the voters refused — and for Walkerton both tests return negatives at the record's strength. The beloved building: no fight over a threatened or demolished building is documented for this town — its losses came by other mechanisms and are told in their own files: the opera house's end unwritten (GAP-W-ART-1), the bank buildings emptied by the 1930 runs, the school consolidations decided by statute and board rather than by street fight. No preservation campaign, no demolition injunction, no last-minute rescue stands in the minutes or press record as reached. The city-hall question: the town's seat stands banked at 301 Michigan Street (the Municipal Building of Government's course), and no refused bond, failed referendum, or defeated hall proposal attaches to its course in the records reached — the building exists, so far as the record shows, without ever having been fought to a vote. Both items close DUG as negatives at reached strength, with the standard caveat printed once: the minutes' full run is the settler of last resort for both, and a fight conducted entirely inside unindexed minutes would be invisible to this run — the negatives are therefore stated against the records named, not against the town's whole memory.
Principal sources: Government (the Municipal Building course); Businesses and Schools (the losses by other mechanisms); the minutes and press record as reached.