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  "title": "The Bend Bulletin, 4 September 1912, page 1: the Seattle excursion train",
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  "notes": "The emblem \"electrically illuminated\" on the rear platform of the excursion train. The OCR of this page is too damaged to read from; the passage on the site was read off the page image at 6x on 2026-09-15 instead, and carries no ellipsis and no bracket.",
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    "title": "An illuminated emblem on the train",
    "intro": "Two months after the Bend Park Company said the emblem was copyrighted, it was on the back of a train between Puget Sound and the Deschutes, lit up.",
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      "The Bend Park Company ran a special train from Seattle in September 1912 — four sleepers, a dining car, a baggage car, a barber, sixty-eight guests whose money was no good — and the Bulletin gave it the front page. W. D. Cheney, the company’s president, headed the excursion.",
      "The emblem is one clause of it, and the clause is set apart below because of where the device was and what it was doing. Not on a letterhead and not in a box in the classifieds: on the rear platform of a moving train, electrically illuminated, between Puget Sound and the Deschutes and back again. This is the earliest description in the archive of the emblem being used for anything, and it is two months after the copyright notice of 3 July.",
      "The archive holds no photograph of it. What it holds is the sentence, and the sentence says “trailed a message of Bend” — a mark doing the work of an advertisement the whole way down somebody else’s railroad. The O.-W. R. & N. Co. handled the special from Portland to Bend.",
      "The same column records a second commission the town made for the occasion: the band met the train with the “Bend Park March”, “specially composed for President Cheney of the company, and first used on Railroad Day”. The club would commission its own march the following year."
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    "quote": "BEND GREETS SEATTLEITES\n\nUnique Special Train, With 68 Puget Sound Visitors Headed by W. D. Cheney, Spends Strenuous Day Here, Taking Town by Storm.\n\nFrom the rear platform a big Bend emblem, electrically illuminated, trailed a message of Bend from Puget Sound to the Deschutes, and back again. There were 68 people aboard. They made enough noise and had enough enthusiasm for 680; when they were awake and at work — meaning 22 hours out of the 24 — their performance would have put a conservative calliope to the blush."
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    "publication": "The Bend Bulletin (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931",
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    "excerpt": "From the rear platform a big Bend emblem, electrically illuminated, trailed a\nmessage of Bend from Puget Sound to the Deschutes, and back again.\n",
    "excerptOcr": "From tho roar nlatrorm n Mr nni\nemblem, electrically Illuminated,\ntrailed a meaaaee of llend from inm\nBound to the Deichulra. nntl U.r,\nagain.\n",
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    "whyItMatters": "The September 1912 Seattle railroad excursion the 1913-01-08 banquet report refers back to, with the emblem electrically illuminated on the rear platform of the train. It is the earliest description in the archive of the emblem being used for anything, two months after the copyright notice, and it is quotable: the bar on quoting it was a bar on the OCR.\n",
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