{ "id": "news-1920-04-08-1", "title": "Where both cups stood in April 1920, and a lawn competition", "publisher": "The Bend Bulletin, 1920-04-08, image 1; Historic Oregon Newspapers", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1920-04-08/ed-1/seq-1/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-12", "notes": "A spring notice for the coming flower show. It places the Emblem club cup with Mrs. C. S. Hudson, held two years, and the Commercial club cup with Mrs. E. A. Smith, and announces a new lawn competition requiring at least 500 square feet. The August notice gives the Commercial cup's holder as Mrs. C. A. Smith; both readings were confirmed on native-resolution scans.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/news-1920-04-08-1/", "evidence": { "id": "news-1920-04-08-1", "kind": "history", "date": "1920-04-08", "summary": "An April 1920 notice places the Emblem club cup with Mrs. C. S. Hudson for a second year and the Commercial cup with Mrs. E. A. Smith, whom the August notice calls C. A. Smith.", "findings": [ "The Emblem club cup is described in April 1920 as being for the most artistic arrangement of flowers and as \"held for two years by Mrs. C. S. Hudson\".", "The Commercial club cup, for the best display of flowers, is \"now in the possession of Mrs. E. A. Smith\".", "The Bulletin of August 14, 1920 gives the same cup as \"now held by Mrs. C. A. Smith\". Both initials were confirmed on their pages' native-resolution scans and the papers disagree.", "A new lawn competition required entered lawns to have areas of at least 500 square feet, with entries to Mrs. A. Whisnant or Mrs. Frank Shoemaker.", "A. Whisnant was toastmaster at the Emblem Club's banquet for the state bankers in June 1918." ], "limitations": [ "This is an advance notice of the show, not a record of awards. Nothing here says what happened in August.", "Which initials are right for Mrs. Smith is not established. The archive records both printings rather than selecting one.", "Mrs. A. Whisnant's relationship to the A. Whisnant of 1918, if any, is not stated on this page and has not been established.", "The lawn competition is the Civic League's, not the club's. The Emblem Club's presence here is the cup.", "The page says nothing about the emblem." ], "objects": [ { "path": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1920-04-08-1.pdf", "sha256": "b2f0f5268576bad025ce1a70648ed4997480ff71c464cf1e18c6126121a88fab", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1920-04-08/ed-1/seq-1/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-12", "role": "Received source bytes" } ], "images": [ { "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1920-04-08-1.pdf", "page": 1, "box": [ 876, 2224, 288, 312 ], "title": "The Emblem club cup “held for two years by Mrs. C. S. 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The useful things first: the Emblem cup is already described in April as being for the most artistic arrangement — the terms the show would print in August alongside the older general-display wording, and the terms the judges used — and it had been Mrs. C. S. Hudson's for two years, which fits the 1917 award and the two blank summers after it.", "The problem is Smith. This page gives the Commercial club cup to Mrs. E. A. Smith. The same paper in August gives it to Mrs. C. A. Smith. Both were read on each page's native-resolution scan, and both are unambiguous. The archive records the disagreement and does not choose; whoever she was, she held a trophy in Bend in 1920 under two sets of initials.", "A smaller note. The lawn prize's contact is Mrs. A. Whisnant. A. Whisnant had been toastmaster at the Emblem Club's banquet for the state bankers in June 1918. The surname is uncommon enough in this file to be worth marking, and a household connection is the obvious reading — but the page does not make one." ], "related": [ "news-1920-08-19-8", "news-1920-08-14-6", "news-1920-08-25-1", "news-1918-06-10-3" ], "date": "1920-04-08", "collection": "club-life", "publication": "The Bend Bulletin", "images": [ { "name": "plate-1", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/news-1920-04-08-1-page-1.jpg", "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1920-04-08-1.pdf", "page": 1, "sha256": "eed6e362bbfa8e401a8048eb46e1955158e7fdb8d132fdf0f1527aa9561b012f", "box": [ 876, 2224, 288, 312 ], "width": 1000, "caption": "The Emblem club cup “held for two years by Mrs. C. S. Hudson”, April 8, 1920.", "alt": "A newspaper column announcing a lawn competition and reporting that the Emblem club cup is held by Mrs. C. S. Hudson and the Commercial club cup by Mrs. E. A. Smith.", "credit": "The Bend Bulletin · Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon", "sourceUrl": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1920-04-08/ed-1/seq-1/", "color": true } ], "quote": "It is requested that all intending to compete for the lawn prize notify Mrs. A. Whisnant or Mrs. Frank Shoemaker. The one requirement now announced is that new lawns entered for competition must have respective areas of at least 500 square feet.\n\nIn addition to the Emblem club cup for the most artistic arrangement of flowers, held for two years by Mrs. C. S. Hudson, and the Commercial club cup for the best display of flowers, now in the possession of Mrs. E. A. Smith, other awards will be made to the winners at the show. 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