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Two tests were run, and each is printed at the size of its document. The first is the template claim of the "soft drinks as the largest trade" class. Its documentary base on this ground is real but small, and it is the whole of it: the 1916 Polk directory entry for Hardenbrook's Bottling Works, James W. Hardenbrook proprietor — "Manufacturers of Soda and Mineral Water, Bottlers of Beer, Agents for Columbia Brewing Co" — together with a second line in the same directory, Foster M M, brewers agent. Two alcohol-adjacent trade lines, then, in a town whose banked medical record includes a temperance advocate: that is a genuine oddity of juxtaposition, and it is all the document supports. No directory, gazetteer or paper reached ranks the town's trades by size, and so the template claim — soft drinks as Walkerton's largest trade — does not verify and is not printed as fact. What the 1916 record shows is presence, not primacy: a bottling works that bottled soda water and beer on the same line, and held a brewery agency besides, at the height of the temperance era. Sized to its document, the oddity is the combination, not the crown.
The second test — the fountain-given-twice class, a civic drinking fountain donated, lost or removed, and donated again — was run against the gazetteer and town-paper record at web strength and returns nothing: no fountain gift, first or second, appears in the Walkerton record reached. (The famous twice-given and temperance fountains that surface in regional searches belong to other towns — South Bend's National Humane Alliance fountain of 1909 among them — and are not imported here.) The residue is a named gap with named settlers: the Walkerton Independent's full run, in the digitized bands of Hoosier State Chronicles and in the society's microfilm of the town paper, 1886–1996, together with the town board's minutes, where a fountain gift, if one was ever made and remade, would have been accepted on the record. The commerce shelf prints the bottlers at document size and the fountain as an open gap; nothing larger is claimed for either.
Sources: R. L. Polk & Co. directory, 1916, Walkerton entries (Hardenbrook's Bottling Works; Foster M M, brewers agent); National Humane Alliance fountain register (no Walkerton entry; South Bend 1909 noted only to prevent import); Hoosier State Chronicles, digitized Walkerton Independent issues consulted at web strength.