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  "publisher": "The Bend Bulletin (weekly), 1916-11-29, image 13; Historic Oregon Newspapers",
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  "notes": "W. D. Cheney, dictating a statement to a Bulletin representative, recalls Strahorn's first visit to the Emblem Club about 1914 — \"we entertained an angel unawares\". Dates a thread the archive had carried as approximate, and is a rare example of Cheney's own words outside the 1913 book.",
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    "summary": "W. D. Cheney, dictating to the Bulletin in 1916, dates Robert E. Strahorn's first visit to the Emblem Club to about 1914 and calls it entertaining an angel unawares.",
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      "Cheney dates Robert E. Strahorn's first visit to the Emblem Club to \"two years ago\" — about late 1914 — and says \"we 'entertained an angel unawares'\".",
      "The statement was dictated to a Bulletin representative and printed as his own words.",
      "It is the second example of Cheney's own prose in this archive outside the 1913 book.",
      "The same page has Cheney directing panoramas to assist Strahorn in building the Oregon, California & Eastern and Surprise Valley railroads.",
      "It closes the open lead recording Strahorn as having \"came to the club about 1914\" on a later account's authority."
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      "\"Two years ago\" is Cheney's own approximation in a promotional statement, not a dated record of a visit.",
      "The statement is Cheney praising a man whose railroad he wanted built. It is advocacy and is filed as such.",
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      "Robert E. Strahorn was the railroad promoter who built the Oregon, California & Eastern and was trying to open Central Oregon to rail. This archive has carried, from a later account, that Cheney was credited with interesting him in the area and that Strahorn “came to the club about 1914”. This page is the source, in Cheney's own dictated words, and it fixes the date at two years before November 1916.",
      "It is also the second piece of Cheney's own prose this archive holds outside the club's 1913 book — the first being the poem the Bulletin reprinted in October 1918. Both are florid, both are promotional, and both show the same instinct: the man who wrote the club an oath about a hundred thousand people reaches for scripture to describe a railroad man visiting a dining room.",
      "The rest of the page is Cheney describing panoramas taken under his direction to assist Strahorn in building the Oregon, California & Eastern and Surprise Valley railroads — photographic work, by the man who wrote and illustrated the Bend Park Company's books."
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