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  "notes": "The report of the reception the Emblem Club gave the Oregon State Bankers' Association on Saturday, June 8, 1918. More than two hundred attended; the club's songs and nonsense rhymes were sung through the banquet; A. Whisnant was toastmaster; the dinner began at five so the visitors could catch their train.",
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      "\"The songs and nonsense rhymes of the club were sung\" through the banquet — a direct statement that the club had a repertoire of its own.",
      "A. Whisnant was toastmaster, a name not previously in this archive.",
      "The dinner began at five o'clock and finished in time to get the visitors to their train that evening.",
      "The bankers were in Bend for two days, and the eulogies were \"tendered to the Emblem club and to Bend for her hospitality\"."
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      "The report names no song and quotes no rhyme. That the club had its own repertoire is stated; what it consisted of is not.",
      "\"More than two hundred\" is the newspaper's count of a mixed audience of bankers, members and townspeople. It is not a membership figure.",
      "A. Whisnant appears here only as toastmaster. No office, membership or other connection to the club is established by this page.",
      "The page says nothing about the emblem."
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      "This is the club doing the thing it was built to do. Cheney founded it in 1912 as a way of showing Bend to people who might invest in it or write about it, and six years on, with its founder in town and running the music, it put two hundred people in a room and sang at them until the train.",
      "Two details are worth holding. The first is “the songs and nonsense rhymes of the club” — the club had a repertoire of its own, and this is the archive's plainest statement that it did. The second is the toastmaster, A. Whisnant, a name the club's records had not carried.",
      "And the sentence about the train is the whole character of the thing in one line. The banquet was not an evening's entertainment that happened to end; it was scheduled backwards from a departure."
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