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The test separates an attempt from a record: a town need not hold a world record to have attempted one, and the attempt — in costume or otherwise — is what was searched for, in the regional press and in the record registers at web strength. The search returns attempts in abundance for Indiana and none for Walkerton. The attempts that surface belong to other towns: a high-heel race in Fort Wayne (2010), a high-five chain in Terre Haute, a giant calzone in Middlebury, sandwich-building in Indianapolis, and a 2024 bell-choir attempt by Indiana United Methodist churches — in whose coverage "Walkerton" appears only because the Walkerton United Methodist Church stands in a list of church closures, which is not an attempt, a record, or a ghost of either. Against the record registers likewise, no Walkerton attempt — costumed, culinary, athletic or congregational — was found.
The item prints, then, as a searched negative at the strength of the sources named: regional press and record registers at web strength carry no Walkerton world-record attempt. The residue is the same settler as the previous item's — the town paper's full run, where a local attempt too small for the regional press would have been whooped up in the local columns — and it is named as residue, not used as a hiding place: at every strength actually reached, the answer is no.
Sources: regional-press and record-register searches for a Walkerton world-record attempt (attempts found: Fort Wayne, Terre Haute, Middlebury, Indianapolis — other towns, not imported); 2024 Indiana UMC bell-choir attempt coverage, in which Walkerton UMC appears only in a church-closure listing.