{ "id": "bb-1922-06-15", "title": "The Bend Bulletin (daily), 15 June 1922, page 1: \"Auto Emblem Endorsed\"", "publisher": "Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon Libraries; page image filed in this project's archive", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1922-06-15/ed-1/seq-1/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-10", "notes": "The first printing of the item the weekly reprinted a week later: the Emblem Club gives the Bend Commercial Club leave to use the emblem \"in any way it sees fit\". Cite this for the date; quote the weekly, whose OCR is cleaner.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/bb-1922-06-15/", "evidence": null, "measurement": [], "appearances": [], "appearanceLeads": [], "exhibit": { "id": "bb-1922-06-15", "title": "An emblem for automobiles", "intro": "A Commercial Club committee, asked to settle the matter of a Bend emblem, reported in favour of the one the Emblem Club already had — and the club told the town to use it in any way it saw fit.", "body": [ "In June 1922 a committee was sitting on “the matter of a Bend emblem” — which means the question was open enough to need a committee. It reported in favour of the device the Emblem Club had adopted “several years ago”, and the club gave its permission for the emblem to be used “in any way it sees fit”.", "That sentence is the closest thing this archive has to the moment the emblem stopped belonging to a club and started belonging to the town. It is not a transfer of ownership and it does not read like one. It reads like a club being asked and saying yes, without conditions.", "The practical end of it was aluminium badges for cars, which the Bend Iron Works was “already prepared to manufacture”. Thirty-one years later the same foundry bought a full page in the paper’s Golden Jubilee edition, told its history in three photographs, and captioned the last one “1953: OUR FIRST TRADE NAME” — over a sign reading Bifco. Whether it ever cast a single emblem is not recorded.", "The weekly edition repeated the report a week later." ], "related": [ "bb-1922-06-22", "bb-1953-06-16" ], "date": "1922-06-15", "collection": "club-life", "images": [ { "name": "plate-1", "from": "assets/archive/pages/bb-1922-06-15.jpg", "original": "archive/newspapers/bend-bulletin/1922-06-15-auto-emblem-endorsed-permission-granted.pdf", "page": 1, "sha256": "430f00115c560b43148ea1410926c630ad9c50baa79c5bf16e988011d286bb76", "box": [ 49, 1561, 296, 231 ], "width": 1000, "caption": "“Auto Emblem Endorsed,” in the daily edition.", "alt": "“Auto Emblem Endorsed,” in the daily edition.", "credit": "Historic Oregon Newspapers · University of Oregon Libraries", "sourceUrl": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1922-06-15/ed-1/seq-1/", "color": false } ], "publication": "The Bend Bulletin", "locator": "page 1", "quote": "Auto Emblem Endorsed\n\nThe committee to investigate the matter of a Bend emblem, reported in favor of the one adopted several years ago by the Emblem club, which has given its permission for the club to use the emblem in any way it sees fit. 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The report states that the Bend Iron Works is already\nprepared to manufacture emblems for use on automobiles, of aluminum.\n", "excerptOcr": "Auto Kmblcin KiHlomwl\nThe committee to investlgntn th\nmatter of a Ilend emblem, reported\nIn favor of tho ono ml op I nil sovera\nyours ago by thu Emblem club. wh,lc\nbus given Its pormlsslnn for the club\nto uso tho emblem In liny way It sees\nIII. Tho report states that the Ilend\nIron Works Is already prepured to\nmanufacture emblems for use on\nautomobiles, of aluminum.\n", "excerptNote": null, "whyItMatters": "In June 1922 the Emblem Club gives the Bend Commercial Club leave to use the emblem \"in any way it sees fit\", and a local foundry is ready to cast it in aluminium for cars. This is the emblem being handed on from the club that made it to the town at large, ten years after the Bend Park Company's \"the above brand is copyrighted\" notice. It bears directly on the licensing review and on chapter 6.\n", "pageImageOnHand": true } }