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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 reached — is a fact about the record's coverage of the service trades (the gap article's thin stratum again), printed here so the absence is owned by the leg whose job is absences. The directory heading runs are the named settler for both trades. The item's other three trades stand banked and are pointed to in one breath: undertakers (inside the business record from Bender's era forward), printers (the town paper's own trade, in Newspapers & Media), and coal (the yards of the transportation and business records) — present, at their strengths, and not re-dug.
Principal sources: the banked set, whole (the absence stated over it); Businesses, Newspapers & Media, Transportation (the three standing trades), pointed to; settler named — directory heading runs (ice; laundries).