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  "notes": "The 1916 flower show results. The Emblem Club cup went to Mrs. C. S. Hudson for the most artistic arrangement of flowers, with E. A. Smith second — although the published rules three weeks earlier reserved the cup for the \"general display\". Corrects this archive's dating of that disagreement by four years and supplies a cup year the table did not hold.",
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    "summary": "The 1916 Emblem Club cup was awarded for the most artistic arrangement, three weeks after the published rules reserved it for the general display.",
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      "The Emblem Club Cup for 1916 went to Mrs. C. S. Hudson for the \"most artistic arrangement of flowers\", with E. A. Smith second.",
      "The Commercial Club cup went to Mrs. C. S. Hudson for the best general display, rated 50 per cent general variety and 50 per cent perfection — the same rating the 1920 and 1927 rules give.",
      "The published rules of August 2, 1916 reserved the Emblem Club cup for the \"general display\", so the rule and the award disagreed within the same month.",
      "This moves the disagreement this archive dated to 1920 back to 1916 at the latest.",
      "1916 is a cup year the archive's table did not hold, and Mrs. C. S. Hudson took both cups.",
      "E. A. Smith as runner-up agrees with the April 1920 notice against the August 1920 notice's \"C. A. Smith\"."
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      "A prize list is a summary. It does not say on what basis the judges chose, or whether the committee regarded itself as departing from the published rule.",
      "Whether the \"general display\" rule was simply stale boilerplate or described a separate class that went unawarded in 1916 is not established by this page.",
      "The runner-up is printed \"E. A. Smith\" without a title; whether this is the Mrs. E. A. Smith of 1920 is not established here.",
      "The page carries no image of the cup or of the emblem."
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      "On August 2, 1916 the Bulletin printed the show's numbered rules, and rule four reserved the Emblem Club cup for the “general display” of flowers — a rule the committee said was the same as the previous year's, which carried it back to 1915. This archive filed that page and built a category history on it: the cup was for the general display from 1915 to 1917, and by 1920 it had become the most artistic arrangement.",
      "Three weeks after those rules were printed, the same paper reported the award — and it went for the most artistic arrangement. Not in 1920. In 1916, in the same August, in the same newspaper.",
      "So the seam this archive found in the 1920 rules, where one clause offers the cup for the general display and another for the most artistic arrangement, and found again word for word in 1927, runs back further than either. The published rule and the awarded category had already parted company by the club's own fourth or fifth show. The rule was the stale half and nobody bothered to fix it for at least eleven years.",
      "Two smaller things follow. This is a cup year the table did not hold — 1916, Mrs. C. S. Hudson, who also took the Commercial cup the same afternoon. And the runner-up is E. A. Smith, which matters because the archive has been carrying a disagreement about whether the Commercial cup's 1920 holder was Mrs. E. A. Smith or Mrs. C. A. Smith. Two pages now give E. A. — this one and the notice of April 1920 — against one that gives C. A."
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