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The Gap Discipline — What the First Pass Missed, and Why
Why Early Firms Went Unrecorded
AUDIT ROW #421 · GAP-W6-1…9 CLASSIFIED · THE GAP-BORN CATCHES ENROLLED
Read as a set, the nine fall into the era's standard causes. Source-shape misses: industries that the county histories and gazetteers systematically under-record — the creamery class (GAP-W6-15 in the farms file, and the food…
The flagship's rivals, restated at gap-leg strength
AUDIT ROW #422 · THE SECOND BARREL-HOOP FACTORY · THE SALTING STATION BESIDE ATWOOD
The second barrel-hoop factory : the hoop trade that the business record documents was not a one-works trade; a second hoop factory stands in that record as Atwood-era competition on the same timber-and-cooperage logic, and its…
A first-of-industry from the gap: GAP-W6-4's position
AUDIT ROW #423 · THE GAZETTEER RUNS 1886–1914 ARE THE SETTLER
One of the nine gaps is a superlative — a first-of-industry claim for the town that the pass could neither prove nor retire — and it stands open under its stated settler: the county gazetteer runs, 1886–1914, read consecutively.…
Service and professional foundings: the test and its settler
AUDIT ROW #424 · FINANCE, ACCOUNTING, SURVEY, SUBDIVIDER — SOS RECORDS BY TRADE
What stands meanwhile is the directory stratum itself — the professionals named in Businesses at their directory dates — pointed to at its strength.
Principal sources: Businesses (the professional directory lines), pointed to; settler named — Indiana Secretary of State corporation records, by trade.
The trades whole: two that were never named, three that stand
AUDIT ROW #425 · ICE AND LAUNDRIES — THE ABSENCE IS THE FINDING · UNDERTAKERS, PRINTERS, COAL STAND BANKED
A town of Walkerton's size and era had ice (harvested or manufactured) and had laundry work done somewhere; that the built record names neither an ice house nor a laundry — no proprietor, no directory line, no advertisement…