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The old songs return

The Bend Bulletin · August 18, 1921

In the story: 4. Emblematic measles, 1917–1922.

Hudson returns to his speech from the earlier Ad Club visit.
Hudson returns to his speech from the earlier Ad Club visit. Historic Oregon Newspapers · University of Oregon Libraries Examine the original

Emblem Club members greeted a visiting exposition caravan with songs and yells led by Charles W. Erskine.

C. S. Hudson returned to a speech he had given seven years earlier, when the club entertained Portland’s Ad Club. The evening joined memories of the 1914 visit with another welcome in 1921.

From the source

C. S. Hudson read from a speech he had delivered seven years before when the Emblem club entertained the Ad club in Bend, and pointed to predictions of prosperity and rapid growth for the city which have since come true. … The earlier part of the evening was enlivened by songs and yells by a delegation of Emblem club members under the direction of Charles W. Erskine.

Songs and yells by Emblem Club members enliven the evening.
Songs and yells by Emblem Club members enliven the evening. Historic Oregon Newspapers · University of Oregon Libraries Examine the original

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