SCLC #748 — Tonawanda 1898 school table reprints 1897 figures

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The federal New York agent’s 1897 table reports three Tonawanda school districts, 137 pupils of school age, 117 attending some portion, 53 ADA, three teachers, $1,302.35 expense. In his August 9, 1898 report, J. R. Jewell printed the same Tonawanda figures, expressly warning he could not obtain the current NY superintendent report and describing the table as condition “as they were last year and as they are substantially this year.”

The identical 1898 line is a carry-forward with a qualitative continuity claim — not an independent 1898 enumeration, verified identical enrollment, or evidence that a separate Tonawanda manual-labor boarding facility operated.

Craft held: carry-forward ≠ measured year; “substantially this year” ≠ verified identical counts; reservation-district table ≠ boarding occupancy; 1881 idle-decaying status not settled by 1898 derivative table. Primaries: CIA 1897 p.206 / leaf 218; CIA 1898 p.217 / leaf 233.

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