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ITEM 5 · THE MISSING FIRST-CRAZE NAMES PRINTED AS THE FINDING, PER THE REGISTER'S OWN FORM
Miniature golf came twice — the rooftop-and-vacant-lot craze of 1930, when every town of a thousand had a Tom Thumb course by August, and the carpet-golf revival of the 1950s — and the register's own instruction for this item is that the missing names print as the finding; they do. For the first wave: no course name, no proprietor, no lot, and no opening stands for Walkerton in the canvasses, the press record as reached, or the banked set — the audit's register line for this item carries the absence in its own wording (the first-craze course's name stands missing), and this run's tests add the second wave to it: no carpet-golf or putt-putt course is documented at a Walkerton address in the postwar directories or the present record either. The likeliest truth — a vacant-lot course in the summer of 1930 too ephemeral for the canvass, played and gone between directories — is printed as likelihood, not fact: this section's rule is that an attraction every neighboring town documents and this one's record omits is reported as an omission, with the settler named (the Independent's summer-1930 amusement columns, inside the same unopened run as the vaudeville bills). The item closes MIXED: both waves tested, the absence documented, the settler standing.
Principal sources: the directory canvasses, both waves; the register's own line for this item; the Independent's 1930 file named as settler.