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The flagship's rivals, restated at gap-leg strength

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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 separate course (owners, years, end) is the business record's to complete under the directory runs. The Heinz salting station beside Atwood: the pickle ground held both the local house (Atwood's own works) and the national firm's gathering station — flagship and rival on adjoining ground, the local firm's competition being not another local firm but the system it also supplied. Both exhibits stand in Businesses and Farms & Agriculture at their banked strengths and are pointed to; this section's addition is the framing: a town's industrial history written only from its flagships understates its competition, and the gap leg exists to keep the rivals enrolled.

Principal sources: Businesses and Farms & Agriculture (the hoop factories; the Atwood works and the Heinz station), pointed to and restated at gap-leg strength.

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Source: The flagship's rivals, restated at gap-leg strength, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/more-businesses/flagship-s-rivals-restated-at-gap-leg-strength/