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  "title": "\"Bring Him. Dance Him, Take Him Home.\" — Bend's first leap year dance, January 1916",
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  "notes": "The Emblem Club issued invitations to a leap year dance on January 21, 1916, quoted verbatim by the paper, which calls it the first leap year affair in Bend. Four years before the leap year party this archive had taken for the club's first.",
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    "summary": "The Emblem Club held Bend's first leap year dance in January 1916, and the paper printed the invitation word for word.",
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      "The Emblem Club issued invitations to a leap year dance on January 21, 1916, at 8:30 p.m. sharp.",
      "The invitation read: \"Dance. Leap Year. Emblem Club. January 21, 1916. Bring Him. Dance Him, Take Him Home. Are You on?\"",
      "The Bulletin calls it \"the first leap year affair in Bend\".",
      "It precedes by four years the leap year party of March 1920 that this archive had filed as the club's.",
      "The invitation's text is one of the few surviving examples of the club's own wording outside the 1913 book."
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      "The item is an announcement. No report of the dance itself has been located.",
      "Who wrote or issued the invitations is not stated; that it was the club's women is an inference from the occasion and is not on the page.",
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    "intro": "The club's own voice, printed, and the first of its kind in the town.",
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      "That is the whole item and every word of the invitation is in it. The archive holds very little of the club's own voice — the 1913 book, four lines of a song, and now this: a card got up by the club's women, in the imperative, with the joke landed in four beats and a time in it.",
      "It also moves a date. This project filed the leap year party of March 1920 as the club's leap year dance, and it was — but the paper of 1916 says the first in Bend was four years earlier, in this building, and by the same club. Leap years fall every four years; the club held one in 1916 and one in 1920, and the record now has both.",
      "The 1920 party would draw more than sixty couples, be decorated in blue and gold, and be postponed once by a ban on public gatherings. This one is a card and a sentence. Between them is the whole distance the club travelled from 1916 to 1920."
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