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Stover.", "Valentine decorations were used, and \"a shooting gallery with hearts as targets was a novel feature of the affair\".", "It is one of very few descriptions of what the inside of the clubhouse looked like in use." ], "limitations": [ "The page does not say that Stover had recently returned from the war; a 1944 retrospective adds that, and it cannot be traced to this source.", "No attendance figure or organising body is given.", "Nothing here concerns the emblem." ], "objects": [ { "path": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1919-02-14-3.pdf", "sha256": "575b65c650e57d05c67d1f0420f5cc3f303b8a7cd514e7137062c485d16a386c", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1919-02-14/ed-1/seq-3/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-12", "role": "Received source bytes" } ], "images": [ { "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1919-02-14-3.pdf", "page": 1, "box": [ 592, 1230, 290, 230 ], "title": "A Valentine dancing party at the Emblem club, February 1919.", "rights": "The Bend Bulletin · Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon; documentary reproduction, excluded from the project artwork license.", "color": true, "width": 1000, "render": "PyMuPDF at 144 dpi; JPEG quality 94", "sha256": "a38cc5284bf6e7ca99a730a54477e46e1ccd9fbc3ade595a4b07e66be053e40e", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/news-1919-02-14-3-page-1.jpg" } ], "family": null, "origin": null, "sourceIds": [], "review": { "status": "image-reviewed", "method": "Complete source page and selected crop inspected visually; OCR used only to locate the passage.", "reviewedOn": "2026-09-12" } }, "measurement": [], "appearances": [], "appearanceLeads": [], "exhibit": { "id": "news-1919-02-14-3", "title": "Hearts as targets", "intro": "Valentine's Day 1919, and the best detail in the archive about what a party in the clubhouse was like.", "body": [ "The war had ended three months earlier and Bend was getting its officers back. What makes the item worth filing is the last sentence: this archive has almost nothing about the inside of the clubhouse — two stone fireplaces, noted when it was pulled down thirty-seven years later, and a buck's head bought from the Civic League in 1921. Add a shooting gallery rigged with paper hearts.", "A retrospective of February 1944 recalls this party and adds that Stover had “recently returned from the war”. The original says only “in honor of Lieutenant B. A. Stover”, under a headline calling him a soldier. 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