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  "notes": "With the Bend Elks lodge assured and nearly 200 membership applicants, the paper reports that \"the purchase of the building now occupied by the Emblem club may be the solution of the problem\". The building's precariousness dates from 1917, not 1924.",
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    "summary": "In April 1917 a new Elks lodge looked at buying the Emblem Club's building, seven years before the Masons did — and the paper describes the club as occupying, not owning, it.",
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      "\"The purchase of the building now occupied by the Emblem club may be the solution of the problem in case a low enough figure is granted by the present owner.\"",
      "The page distinguishes the club as occupant from an unnamed \"present owner\" — the position the 1919 purchase from D. E. Hunter would resolve.",
      "The Bend Elks lodge was assured, with more than 100 charter signatories and nearly 200 membership applicants; Vernon A. Forbes had secured the dispensation.",
      "The Elks did not buy the building. They were instituted in it in June 1919.",
      "This replaces the OCR-only row the timeline had carried for this date."
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      "The purchase is reported as understood \"from various sources\", not as a negotiation or an offer. No party to it is named and no figure is given.",
      "The \"present owner\" is not named on this page. Identifying him with D. E. Hunter of The Bend Company follows from the 1919 reports, not from this one.",
      "Nothing here concerns the emblem."
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      "This archive's account of the building has run: A. M. Drake builds it, Cheney buys it and adds Emblem hall, the title sits with D. E. Hunter of The Bend Company, the reorganised club buys it back in 1919, and the Masons buy it in 1924. This page puts a fourth party in the queue seven years before the sale, and names the condition — a low enough figure from the present owner.",
      "The present owner in April 1917 was not the Emblem Club. The paper says the building is occupied by the club and owned by someone else, which is exactly the position the 1919 purchase would resolve when the reorganised club bought its own grounds from Hunter for $5,300. The club was a tenant in its own hall in 1917 and the town knew it.",
      "The Elks did not buy it. They were instituted in it instead — at the Emblem club, on the evening of June 27, 1919, seven weeks after the club had finally bought the place."
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    "quote": "That the establishment of an Elks lodge in Bend is actually assured, was the statement made this morning by Vernon A. Forbes… At the present time, more than 100 Elks and others who signed the charter petition are in Bend and the vicinity, while applicants for membership in addition, total nearly 200.\n\nNo actual arrangements have been as yet made for a lodge hall or club rooms, but it is understood from various sources that the purchase of the building now occupied by the Emblem club may be the solution of the problem in case a low enough figure is granted by the present owner."
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