A deliberately crude, but global, vertical growth estimate. The naturally
ordered Abel representation at cutoff one is enough: on 1/2 ≤ σ ≤ 2, L'
has at most linear growth in the height.
A uniform 1/(1+t²) majorant on the whole closed strip. The
linear Abel growth of L' is cancelled by the explicit s in Chen's kernel;
the remaining kernel power has order at least two once x ≥ 3.
Both boundary sections are Bochner integrable; in fact the same proof works for every vertical line in the closed strip.
Explicit horizontal-edge decay. Each edge has length α-β=1/2;
the triangle inequality for their difference therefore costs exactly one copy
of the common pointwise majorant.
Unconditional equation-(17) contour shift for the actual nonprincipal
primitive L'·S kernel. No integrability or horizontal-decay premise remains
at the call site.